John Carmack (left) poses with Oculus founder Palmer Luckey (center) and other members of the Oculus team. (credit: OculusVR)

The 2014 lawsuit filed against virtual reality headset company Oculus and its parent company Facebook has now received its first major amendment in nearly two years. The civil complaint from game publisher ZeniMax was updated on August 16 with 22 additional “paragraphs,” and those updates mince few words. Most notably, the lawsuit now names Oculus executives John Carmack and Brendan Iribe as defendants, in addition to the aforementioned companies and Oculus founder Palmer Luckey.

The updated filing, which was reported by Game Informer on Monday, still alleges that Oculus’s major VR technologies were taken from ZeniMax in a way that violated contracts and nondisclosure agreements—especially since Carmack originally worked for ZeniMax and had signed contracts that made ZeniMax the owner of any technologies he worked on within the company (specifically, at its subsidiary, id Software). Now that Iribe and Carmack are listed as defendants, ZeniMax has aimed further allegations directly at those two men—and have questioned claims that Luckey had much to do with the development of Oculus’ core technologies.

Issues with disclosure

In the last amended complaint, Zenimax simply said that “Rift’s VR Technology… had actually been developed by ZeniMax without Luckey’s involvement.” This new complaint goes much further, especially when talking about the ways Oculus bolstered its reputation en route to being acquired by Facebook for $2 billion in 2014. “Oculus needed to be able to explain how it came to own VR technology” without acknowledging any misuse of another company’s technologies, the suit now claims, and it also alleges that Iribe instructed Oculus staffers to “disseminate to the press the false and fanciful story that Luckey was the brilliant inventor of VR technology” and “had developed that technology in his parents’ garage.”