Oculus was found guilty of plagiarizing VR technology for compensation of $500 million

▼ Oculus was found guilty of plagiarizing VR technology to indemnify $500 million from Baidu VR A jury in the United States ruled on Wednesday that Oculus, a developer of Facebook's virtual reality headset, used stolen computer code to compensate game developer ZeniMax Media for $500 million. The core of this case is the Oculus Rift device, which allows Facebook to take the lead in the booming VR industry. Facebook acquired Oculus for $2 billion in 2014. The federal court of Dallas, United States, made this ruling on Wednesday. Although the jury dismissed allegations of theft of trade secrets, it demanded that Oculus pay US$200 million for violation of the confidentiality agreement and infringe US$50 million for copyright infringement due to improper use of the ZeniMax trademark for US$50 million. The jury also abused the trademark requirements of Oculus co-founders Brendan Iribe and Palmer Luckey to compensate ZeniMax with US$150 million and US$50 million respectively. The jury also determined that John Carmack, Oculus chief technology officer, took away intellectual property belonging to ZeniMax but did not ask him to pay compensation. The ruling was a “face hit” against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg was not the defendant but he stated in court that the allegations of ZeniMax were wrong. ZeniMax said in a statement that although the company regrets having to resort to litigation to defend its rights, “it is necessary to make a standpoint for companies that are trying to gain control of the latest and most important technologies through illegal activities.” An Oculus spokesman said the company will appeal. "The core of the case was whether Oculus had stolen ZeniMax's trade secrets. The jury resolutely supported our claim on this issue," said Ocula spokesperson Tera Randall. "Obviously, we have today We were disappointed with the other aspects of the ruling, but we were not discouraged. Oculus's products were developed using proprietary technology." ZeniMax originally sought to make two billion U.S. dollars for Facebook and Oculus.