> In August 2012, ZeniMax began seeking compensation for the intellectual property, according to people familiar with the discussions. Negotiations continued on and off for nearly six months, with Oculus eventually offering ZeniMax a small equity stake, but no deal was reached, the people said. This past summer, Mr. Carmack joined Oculus, and earlier this year, five ZeniMax employees joined Oculus, the people said.
In February, ZeniMax asked Mr. Carmack to disclose all of the virtual-reality inventions he developed while working at ZeniMax, one of the people said.<p>it sounds to me like they are saying that John Carmack did VR work for Oculus while still at Id and then took his tech demo with him when he left Id/ZeniMax.<p>This seems like the kind of thing John had done in the past and no one cared when they were still Id software. Once they sold themselves, it seems like the parent company no longer considers this type of activity to be ok.<p>or put another way, it sounds like shades of Sergey Aleynikov (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aleynikov" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aleynikov</a>), where a programmer does something he always does but once he leaves the company the company decides that they weren't cool with it after all.