Facebook’s Oculus Fights Sales Ban for VR Rift Headset
- ZeniMax seeks to block sales after trial win over stolen tech
- Oculus says retooling Rift software would be costly, difficult
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Facebook Inc. wants a federal judge to let it continue sales of its virtual-reality headsets even though a jury said the social-media giant’s Oculus unit stole another company’s computer code.
ZeniMax Media Inc.’s request for a court order blocking sales of unspecified models of the Oculus Rift, which is priced at $600 with controllers, follows a $500 million verdict in February over claims that Oculus and some of its executives purloined proprietary information when they designed the headset prototype.