If I were simulaVR, I would make this very painful to meta.
You would put together business plans that literally say no other vendor can compete against meta. Basically confirm the anti-competition. That even that subpeona is anticompetive and an attempt to further crush them.
I think the subpoena is mostly for existing records and novel records of existing plans. IANAL, but I think if you were to create novel documents that were most certainly less than honest for the purpose of swaying the case, there could be legal consequences for you.
Courts aren't stupid - if it becomes apparent that you are attempting to maliciously comply, they can still get you based on your apparent intent.
Simula has to have a business plan. Has to list their competitors like HTC and Meta who are anticompetitively working together on a virtual world. viveverse is literally called metaverse; technically i don't know if it's literally the same virtual world.
You can then look at Lenovo, Microsoft, Valve and Google whose VR stuff died. Your assumption is they cant compete against them.
Then you explain your business plan of finding a wierd open source niche. Entirely because competing against meta is impossible.
I'm not saying fabricating evidence or like try to get your accounts banned off facebook to make it look like they are trying to crush you. You simply make the reasonable argument and business case a unresourced startup can't compete against a 350billion $ org with an army of devs.
Meta's fault for bothering you. Then again you're literally holding a paper vial of anthrax on this one if you do it. #YOLO
Yeah, don't go creating bullshit in response, but anyone who is remotely connected to anything Meta, Google, Apple are involved in should have in their documents details on why they won't be competing with the big names.
Best case is Simula can file an injunction along the lines of not being a competitor or not having any relevance and wishing to keep their trade secrets...secret.
Otherwise, comply with only existing documentation. For example, if they requested fine-grained details on metrics that don't exist, then the correct response to that is "doesn't exist".
Isn't that what they already did with this statement? Quoting last paragraph subtitle "We're don't view ourselves in competition with Meta" is exactly that. Therefore the FTC can take that and prove FB is a monopoly, or whatever FTC end-game is.
That sounds like a bold faced lie to me. To quote the article:
>Meta sells reasonably good gaming headsets to customers who want to be entertained in VR; we're selling general-purpose productivity devices which are aimed at replacing PCs and laptops. So our real competition is laptops & PCs, not other gaming headsets.
Everything Meta has been releasing publicly about their VR Headset plans make it blatantly clear that it is not only targeting gaming.
How about a look at Meta's app sales to prove that? I think this list of who the subpoena was served to is pretty hilarious, and it's even more hilarious that Apple's not on this list:
Alphabet Inc.
ByteDance Inc.
HTC America, Inc.
Huawei Technologies USA, Inc.
Nintendo of America Inc.
Panasonic Corporation of North America
Samsung Electronics America, Inc.
Simula VR, LLC
I think the malicious intent is all on Meta's side. They have a head start with Occulus, no one else is even close in the US.
It's hilarious because of Simula's size compared to the rest, and because it doesn't include Apple/Valve, and really, only those two should even be on the list at all! They literally subpoenaed everyone except their real potential competition. I get it, they subpoenaed whoever they could. I think the FTC in the Bloomberg story linked in the post said it best: "It reflects their scorched-earth defense strategy here to fight in whatever manner is available to them"
There isn't anyone with a current model headset like the Quest, that is even remotely close in market share in the US.
You would put together business plans that literally say no other vendor can compete against meta. Basically confirm the anti-competition. That even that subpeona is anticompetive and an attempt to further crush them.
Malicious compliance the entire way.