Sony has been revealed as the bidder who bought the intellectual property of bankrupt panorama and imaging company IPIX. Back in the heady dotcom days of 1999, IPIX became notorious for harassing members of the VR community, claiming that their patents covered any use of fisheye images to create panoramas. Particularly unimpressive was their hounding of Helmut Dersch, the creator of the open source PanoTools. Now Sony has paid $3.6 million for those and other patents, we’ll have to wait and see if they follow in IPIX’s footsteps.

Via paidContent.org.

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