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John Carmack Offered A $1 Million Guarantee To Bring Team Beef's Ports To The Quest Store

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John Carmack says he offered id Software a $1 million sales guarantee to allow Team Beef to sell its VR ports on the official Quest store. In a thread on X about the modding team's Quake 3 VR port, a fan tagged the former Oculus CTO and asked him to make the port "canon". Thus, Carmack no longer controls the IP.

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BISim tells us how XR is relevant for the Army

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I joined BISim in 2009 after seven years of working in engineering positions in video games companies. Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim) is a global software company at the forefront of simulation training solutions for defense and civilian organizations. I’m the Senior Director of Development for BISim.

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Oculus CTO John Carmack Sues ZeniMax For $22.5 Million In Ongoing Battle

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The ongoing legal drama between Oculus chief technology officer John Carmack and his former employer ZeniMax continues today with Carmack suing the company. Carmack’s lawsuit alleges he’s owed $22.5 We note that this is Mr. Carmack’s second complaint against ZeniMax. In the recently completed trial of ZeniMax Media Inc.

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Xbox Game Studios Has (inadvertently?) Acquired Heaps of VR Development Talent

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Founded in 2000 by legendary game designer Tim Schafer, this is a storied studio known for games like Psychonauts (2005), Brutal Legend (2009) , and many more. The VR version of Minecraft also came to the Oculus Rift in 2016. Founded in 2009, Compulsion Games is best known for We Happy Few (2018).

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NextVR Plans 6DOF, Increased Quality, and AR Support for Live VR Video in 2018

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Positional tracking is the dream for immersive video content, but it is a complex hardware and software challenge. ” Launched in 2009, NextVR has many years of experience in live broadcast, transitioning from stereoscopic 3D content delivery as Next3D to a VR-focused platform.

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Is “Camera Marketing” AR’s Revenue Leader?

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This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement….including That excitement culminated in 2016 after the Oculus acquisition had time to set off a chain reaction of startup activity, tech-giant investment, and VC inflows for the “next computing platform.”

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The ZeniMax Media v. Oculus VR Trial Begins Today in Dallas

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Oculus VR is one of the first major legal disputes to happen in our young new industry. You might remember that, quite famously, John Carmack joined the Oculus team as CTO in 2013. Carmack is the co-founder of id Software, a company acquired by ZeniMax Media in 2009. Oculus VR Inc., ZeniMax Media v.

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