"The Death Star plans are not in the main computer."

"Tear this ship apart until you find those plans!"

The basics:

JC pushed and pushed Zenimax to get into VR and they turned up their nose to the ideas and JC worked some on the side (using sensor fusion work he did at armadillo aerospace and a shader that could correct for lens distortion, and some porting work on Doom3)

Zenimax wanted nothing to do with VR but JC really liked it so he left and joined a company that got bought up for really big money. Zenimax got $$ in their eyes and started digging for anything they could pin on the people involved.

It was found in the court case that the Doom3 code was used as a demo without permission and that JC had reimplemented (non-litteral copying) the shader code for use at occulus.

They also found, it seems correctly, that there was a demo of a headset JC worked on with Palmer Luckey to execs at Facebook that prompted the buyout.

No patents this was copyright lawsuit. The very specific BS part is that Zenimax convinced a jury that "Non-litteral copying" was a thing. And that although no code was cut and pasted into anything Oculus has, the fact that he had originally written the code and had access to it that now anything he writes similar to it is also copyright infringement.

It's a pretty scary case really.

or not have a job, not have enough to afford food, and just die.

The one that makes us the most money.

I think you are confusing capitalism with actual free market. This is capitalism using the government to force their market on people.

Top secret is as high as it gets. At that point all info is strictly "need to know"

You can Ease your concerns on Vive software support. It is currently far stronger than any other VR platform.

Rift is better hardware, Vive is more fun experience. I own both. I would recomend the Vive today. That may change when Oculus Touch comes out though.

I don't know, I'm getting older too and just don't want to miss anything. What if I'm not around in 4 years?

Ohh they will be so much better in 4 years. Of course they are freaking amazing now, but yes, better in 4 years.

I feel the same way, except I want to witness the disappointment of his detractors when the country actually does just fine.

more often than not these days, not upgrading breaks things.

You sure seem to be eating up that propaganda by the mouth full. gesh!!

Plus the shear bulk of false or bad intel that clouds the credibility of the one that finally actually happens.