Oculus VR’s John Carmack: The Rift uses ‘zero lines of code that I wrote while’ at Zenimax

Zenimax once employed one of the key people working on virtual reality at Oculus Rift, and it thinks that it owns some of his ideas — and that engineer disagrees.

Yesterday, GamesBeat reported that Doom publisher Zenimax Media sent a request for compensation to virtual-reality hardware company Oculus VR. Zenimax claims that Doom co-creator John Carmack illegally took technology with him to Oculus when he left id Software, a subsidiary of Zenimax. Well, the engineer, who is Oculus’s chief technology officer, took to Twitter last night to defend himself and his new company.