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Re:Founder of Facebook's Oculus hit with lawsuit by leoc on Sunday May 24, 2015 @11:33PM (#9598519)
> Lucky may be saved by the fact that a lot of the technology in the original Rift prototypes was developed by USC's ICT which was fine letting him use it.

That doesn't seem to be the case: https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/23rh0m/ken_perlin_o... Luckey was certainly aware of the Wide5 HMD from USC http://www.fakespacelabs.com/Wide5.html http://people.ict.usc.edu/~suma/papers/olson-vr2011poster.pd... fairly early in his VR work (see http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=120&t=13741 and http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=120&t=13158&star... ) but the Wide5 apparently has different lenses, doesn't use PC-side software distortion correction and uses two screens (the consumer Rift will too, but all Rift versions up to and including Dev Kit 2 https://forums.oculus.com/viewtopic.php?t=7544 are single-screen).

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Re:Founder of Facebook's Oculus hit with lawsuit by josephpmay on Monday May 25, 2015 @11:35AM (#9600418)
Interesting. I seem to remember Mark painting a different picture when I spoke to him, but this was over a year ago and my memory may be deceiving me. It seems like they came up with similar ideas at the same time, which happens all the time in tech.
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