Oculus VR Founder Palmer Luckey is facing another lawsuit, this time from one of its former employers.
The complainant is Total Recall Technologies, a Hawaii-based company that is accusing Luckey of "taking confidential information he learned while working with another company and passing it off as his own," according to Reuters. The lawsuit has been filed with the U.S. District Court in California against Luckey as well as Oculus.
Total Recall Technologies stated in it's lawsuit that it hired Luckey as an employee in 2011 with the specific purpose of developing a prototype head mounted display, Gamespot reported. The lawsuit also accuses Luckey of breaching a confidentiality agreement he signed with the company.
The lawsuit mentions that when Luckey used to work with Total Recall Technologies from mid-2011 into 2012, he was given important feedback and information in order to improve the headset's design. The suit then goes on to claim that he wrongfully exploited this information to create his own head mounted display called the Oculus Rift.
The plaintiff is seeking compensatory and punitive damages from Luckey, but the amount has not been disclosed.
Oculus VR was acquired by Facebook for $2 billion just over a year ago, which was the virtual reality headset maker's first-every hardware deal as it was still looking for a way to penetrate the rapidly growing wearable devices market.
Total Recall Technologies has hired the services of global law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan for the lawsuit. The law firm boasts an impressive clientele, including Google and Samsung Electronics to name a few.
