Oculus Rift Lawsuit Update: Total Recall Technologies Gets A Go Signal; Details Released!

by Divya Ramaswamy / Jan 22, 2016 09:37 PM EST

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The creator of Oculus Rift Virtual Reality has been sued by his previous employer and the lawsuit filed against him gets to proceed.

The Judge William Alsup who deals with the case filed against Palmer Luckey, the founder of facebook's VR glasses has given his approval to proceed with it. This case has been filed in US District Court, Northern District of California (Total Recall Technologies vs. Palmer Luckey and Oculus VR, Inc.)

Palmer Luckey used to work with the company called Total Recall Technologies (Based in Hawaii), back in the year 2011 to create a prototype head-mounted display. They also had an agreement on confidentiality signed by him in order to secure the proprietary ownership of the company.

The same year, Lucky was asked to improve the design and it is alleged that he used that information to build his own VR device, namely the Oculus Rift.

When Luckey founded his new company with Brendan Iribe, he worked on Virtual reality Head-mounted display- Oculus Rift.

The case has been filed that Palmer Luckey broke his confidentiality agreement while designing Oculus VR.

"A brazen attempt to secure for itself a stake in Oculus VR's recent multi-billion dollar acquisition by Facebook" is what Luckey calls the lawsuit filed against him, Cited Reuters.

In 2014, Facebook had purchased Oculus Inc for $2 billion- the social media organization's first hardware deal that wanted to take its step in the emerging wearable technology market.

And now due to this alleged violation of confidentiality agreement, the lawsuit has been filed. Though the judge has approved on its proceeding, he has also called off other charges filed against Luckey, such as a Farud. And the only claim that will be proceeding will be breach of contract.

Engadget Opines that Total Recall Technologies might win the case against Oculus Rift creator only if they submitted evidence that he was drawing on a specific technology and not claiming it through his general working experience with the company.