An Oculus Rift virtual reality (VR) headset stands during the Intel Corp. press event at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017. Intel, trying to convert its dominance of computers into a stake in the growing market for chips used in cars, is offering automakers new products aimed at making its technology crucial to the effort to develop self-driving vehicles. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg
The young entrepreneur credited as the brains behind Facebook Inc.’s virtual reality headset was accused in court of betraying a company that had worked with him to display the technology at a trade show.
Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey, whose startup was bought by the social media giant for about US$2bil (RM8.89bil) in 2014 when he was 21, didn’t dispute that he used software developed by ZeniMax Media Inc to show the prototype for his headset to investors in a California hotel room two years earlier. That was shortly after ZeniMax had demonstrated the device publicly at a Los Angeles video game expo with Luckey’s permission.
