John Carmack to work primarily on Oculus Rift
Re: John Carmack to work primarily on Oculus Rift
i should not be here
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frag.machine
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Re: John Carmack to work primarily on Oculus Rift
Yeah, this stinks more and more.leileilol wrote:oh shit.
Normally I would say they are just bluffing and trying to capitalize on the potential cash cow, but in this case I suspect Zenimax has some legs (at least from the legal point, not discussing if it's fair or not). Carmack *was* working on VR for them when he stumbled on the Occulus project, and also they showcased an early OR prototype in a Zenimax booth running a modified Doom 3. All this without mentioning that IP clauses granting rights in everything you create while working to a company are standard on tech job contracts; finally Zenimax was already looking for compensations before the Facebook deal, so it's not a opportunistic move.
Probably FB will throw their lawyers over Zenimax and eventually pay a pile of cash to Zenimax.
I know FrikaC made a cgi-bin version of the quakec interpreter once and wrote part of his website in QuakeC 
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Re: John Carmack to work primarily on Oculus Rift
And more shit hits the fan
DISCLAIMER: I don't know if this is the actual NDA.
DISCLAIMER: I don't know if this is the actual NDA.
I know FrikaC made a cgi-bin version of the quakec interpreter once and wrote part of his website in QuakeC (LordHavoc)
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