- William Gibson
William Ford Gibson (born, Conway, South Carolina) is an American-born science fiction author who has been called the father of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction, partly due to coining the term "cyberspace" in 1982, and partly because of the success of his first novel, "Neuromancer", which has sold more than 6.5 million copies worldwide since its publication in 1984. - Jaron Lanier
Jaron Lanier (born 1960) is a virtual reality developer. He was a pioneer in, and popularized the term "Virtual Reality" (VR) in the early 1980s. At that time, he founded VPL Research, the first company to sell VR products. - Brenda Laurel
I am a researcher, teacher, writer and performer. I chair the Graduate Program in Design at California College of Art in San Francisco. I chaired the graduate Media Design Program at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena from 2002 to 2006. I was also a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems Labs (2005-2006). Since 1976, my work has focused on the intersection of culture and technology. - Mark Pesce
Mark Pesce, (December 8, 1962, in Everett, Massachusetts) (pronounced) one of the early pioneers in Virtual Reality is a writer, researcher and teacher. The co-inventor of VRML, he is the author of five books and numerous papers on the future of technology. - Clay Shirky
Clay Shirky is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. He teaches New Media as an adjunct professor at New York University's (NYU) graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). His courses address, among other things, the interrelated effects of social and technological network topology, how our networks shape culture and vice-versa. - Ivan Sutherland
Ivan Edward Sutherland (born 1938 in Hastings, Nebraska) is a computer programmer and Internet pioneer. He received the Turing Award in 1988 for the invention of Sketchpad, an early predecessor to the sort of graphical user interface that has become ubiquitous in personal computers. Sutherland earned his Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), his Master's degree from Caltech, … - Maurice Benayoun
Maurice Benayoun (AKA MoBen) is a pioneering new-media artist whose work has been seen, and honored, around the globe. Born in Mascara, Algeria, in 1957, Benayoun is based in Paris, where he lives with his wife and daughter. His work employs various media — including (and often combining) video,virtual reality, the Web, wireless technology, performance, public-space large-scale art installations and interactive exhibitions. - Scott Fisher
Scott Fisher is Professor and Chair of the Interactive Media Division in the USC School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, and a Fellow of the the Annenberg Center for Communication there. He is an artist and technologist who has worked extensively on virtual reality, including stints at NASA, Atari Research Labs, MIT's Architecture Machine Group and Keio University. - Susumu Tachi
Susumu Tachi (born January 1, 1946) is currently a professor at the Department of Information Physics and Computing of the University of Tokyo. Dr. Tachi received the B.E., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in mathematical engineering and information physics from the University of Tokyo in 1968, 1970, and 1973, respectively. He joined the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Tokyo in 1973, and in 1975 moved to the Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, … - Morton Heilig
Morton Heilig was a thought-leader in Virtual Reality (VR). He applied his cinematographer experience with the help of his partner developed the Sensorama in 1960. It was big, bulky, and shaped like a 1980-ish arcade game. The Sensorama was quite impressive for 1960 technology. The game gave the player the experience of riding a motorcycle on the streets of Brooklyn. The player felt the wind on their face, the vibration of the motorcycle seat, a 3-D view, and even smells of the city. - Warren Robinett
Warren Robinett is a designer of interactive computer graphics software, notable as the developer of "Adventure", the first graphical adventure video game, and as the founder of The Learning Company, where he designed "Rocky's Boots". More recently he has worked on virtual reality projects. After graduating from Rice University, he was a programmer working for Western Geophysical in Houston, Texas. He received an M.S. from University of California, … - Damien Broderick
Damien Broderick (born 1944) is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer. His science fiction novel "The Judas Mandala" is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term "virtual reality". Broderick holds a Ph.D. in Literary Studies from Deakin University, Australia, with a dissertation relating to the comparative semiotics of scientific, literary and science fictional textuality. - Mark Bolas
Mark Bolas is a research scientist, artist, and designer exploring perception, agency, and intelligence. He is an Associate Professor of Interactive Media in the USC Interactive Media Division, USC School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, Director of their Interactive Narrative and Immersive Technologies Lab, and Chairman of Fakespace Labs in Mountain View, California. Bolas majored in Physics and minored in Music at University of California, … - Dave Morris
Dave Morris (born in 1957) is a British gamebook author of the 1980s and 1990s. He is most famous for the Fabled Lands series, but also wrote the Virtual Reality, Blood Sword, Dragon Warriors and Golden Dragon series, as well as penning a single Fighting Fantasy gamebook (The Keep of the Lich Lord). Morris rarely worked alone on gamebooks; most of his creations were co-authored with other gamebook writers, … - Josephine Anstey
Josephine Anstey is currently an assistant professor at the University at Buffalo and has been since 2000. She teaches virtual reality production and interactive media analysis. From 1996 to 2000 she was a Research Assistant at the electronic visualization laboratory where she organized and participated in exhibitions and demonstrations at SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica Festival, MediaArtech, and many more. She was a freelance writer and producer from 1986 from 1995. - Paul J. McAuley
Paul McAuley (born April 23, 1955), a British botanist, award-winning author, and self-described science junkie. By training a biologist, UK science fiction author McAuley writes mostly hard science fiction, dealing with themes such as biotechnology, alternate history/alternate reality, and space travel. McAuley started out writing far-future space opera with "Four Hundred Billion Stars", its sequel "Eternal Light", … - Myron W. Krueger
Myron Krueger (born 1942 in Gary, Indiana) is an American computer artist who developed early interactive works. He is also considered to be one of the first generation virtual reality and augmented reality researchers. While earning a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin, Krueger worked on a number of early interactive computer artworks. - Andre Lamothe
André LaMothe is a Computer Scientist, well-known game programming author and software developer. He is best known for his books written on game programming, and has written numerous computer games for 8-bit computers as well as the "3D Rex-Blade" series in the mid '90s. He also developed one of the first super computer virtual reality location-based games while working at Vision of Reality. - Bob Sproull
Dr. Robert F. Sproull works for Sun Microsystems where he is a Sun Fellow and Vice President at Sun Labs Massachusetts in Burlington. While working towards his B.A. in physics at Harvard College in 1967, Sproull met Ivan Sutherland. Together, they worked on head-mounted displays, which led the way for 3-dimensional virtual reality. Sproull received his Masters Degree in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1970, … - Michael Deering
Michael Frank Deering, PhD, (b. 1956) is a computer scientist, a former chief engineer for Sun Microsystems in Mountain View, California, and a widely recognized expert on artificial intelligence, computer vision, 3D graphics hardware/software, very-large-scale integration (VLSI) design and virtual reality. Deering oversaw Sun's 3D graphics technical strategy as the chief hardware graphics architect and is a co-architect of the Java 3D API, … - Philip Zhai
Philip Zhai also known as Zhenming Zhai is a philosopher who writes in both English and Chinese. Zhai is the author of "Get Real: A Philosophical Adventure in Virtual Reality" (1998: Rowman & Littlefield), in which he argues that the logical extreme of virtual reality is ontologically equivalent to actual reality. Zhai also writes about cyberspace in light of its connection to virtual reality. - William Winn
William David "Bill" Winn (d. 2006) was an educational psychologist who made notable contributions to the understanding of how people learn from diagrams, and on how cognitive and constructivist theories of learning can help instructional designers select effective teaching strategies. His areas of teaching and research included instructional theory, design of computer-based learning, instructional effects of illustrations, … - Daniel Roebuck
Daniel Randall Roebuck (born March 4, 1963 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) (Lehigh Valley) is a U.S. television and movie actor, writer and producer, primarily in movies, soap operas and television. Roebuck appeared in his first movie role in 1981. From 1992 to 1995, he played Andy Griffith's assistant, Cliff Lewis, on the television drama "Matlock", and from 1996 to 2001, he played Don Johnson's and Cheech Marin's corrupt officer, Insp. - Rene Daalder
Rene Daalder (born 1944, sometimes credited as Renee Daalder) is a Dutch writer and director. He lives in Los Angeles. Originally a protege of Russ Meyer, Daalder has worked with Jan de Bont, Frans Bromet, and Rem Koolhaas. He is regarded as a pioneer of Virtual Reality and digital motion picture technologies. His movies include teenage horror classic "Massacre at Central High" (1976), "Habitat" (1997) and "Hysteria" (1998). - Graham Nicholls
Graham Nicholls is a British installation artist specialising in immersive art. He was one of the first artists to explore the possibility of using the Internet for live video streaming and more recently at the forefront of artistic experiments with virtual reality. He is also known for his use of psychology and Neuro-linguistic programming in his interactive works, adding a new level to how installation art is experienced. - Brian Wowk
Brian Wowk , Ph.D., is a biophysicist employed as a Senior Scientist at 21st Century Medicine, Inc., a company specializing in low temperature preservation of tissue and organs for medical applications. He holds M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in medical physics, specializing in radiation oncology physics and magnetic resonance imaging. He is a leading expert in cryopreservation by vitrification. Dr. Wowk has maintained an interest in cryonics since 1986. - Jacek Dukaj
Jacek Dukaj is a Polish science fiction writer. Jacek studied philosophy at the Jagiellonian University. The first science fiction story he read was The Investigation by Stanisław Lem, which inspired him to write his own stories in that genre. He successfully debuted at the age of 16 with a short story "Złota Galera" ("Golden Galley"). Winner of the Janusz A. Zajdel Award in 2001 for his novel "Czarne oceany" ("Black Oceans"), … - Christopher Kingsley
Just a guy from the Midwest trying to capture the world around us, show it to everyone for free, and ultimately transform the local search. Edges need to be cut. - Wesley Cooper
Wesley Cooper, Ph.D. is a Canadian Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alberta. He received his doctorate in 1975 from the University of Calgary. It is often remarked that he bears a striking resemblance to William Shatner. His philosophical interests include the works of William James, Robert Nozick, John Rawls, John Searle, David Deutsch, Peter Singer, and Lawrence Lessig. He is an advocate of open-source programming methods, wikipedia, … - Dan Walsh
Dan Walsh is a painter based in New York. He studied at the Philadelphia College of Art in Pennsylvania and Hunter College in New York. A veteran of nearly thirty solo exhibitions Walsh’s work has been shown internationally at galleries and museums including PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain in Geneva, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and The Royal Academy in London. He is represented by Paula Cooper in New York and Paolo Curti in Milan. - Eric Howlett
Eric Mayorga Howlett, (1926 -), is the inventor of the LEEP (Large Expanse Extra Perspective), extreme wide-angle stereoscopic optics used in photographic and virtual reality systems. According to Wayne Carlson, professor of design at Ohio State University: "The Large Expanse, Extra Perspective (LEEP) optical system was designed by Eric Howlett in 1979 and provides the basis for most of the current virtual reality helmets available today. - Ben Kamprath
Building better experiences through engaging design. We make it curve with style... - Anne Glover
Anne Glover is CEO and co-founder of Amadeus Capital Partners, a venture capital firm that invests in European high-technology companies. Prior to founding Amadeus in 1997, she was with Apax Partners & Company Ventures, where she was a member of the investment team. She also has experience as a business angel, investing in UK-based information technology start-ups. Glover has also had significant operating experience with Virtuality Group plc, … - Rich La Bonté
Rich La Bonté is an American musician, writer, editor. La Bonté has five published novels: "Susan and The Wolf" (1989), "Useful Humans" (1990), "Simple Deities" (2002), "The Greater Future" (2003), "Many Teeth" (2005) and the short story collection "Yellowflower" (2005). - Ara Darzi Baron Darzi of Denham
Ara Warkes Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham, KBE, is one of the world's leading surgeons, specialising in the field of minimally invasive and robot-assisted surgery, having pioneered many new techniques and technologies. He is married to Wendy and they have two children, Freddie and Nina. Darzi joined Imperial College London in 1994, becoming Head of Division in 2004. During this time he has also served on the Department of Health's National Modernisation Board, … - Chōhei Kanbayashi
(born 1953) is a Japanese science fiction and horror writer who won the Seiun Award four times for novel. In 1985 he was chair of Japan's National SF convention. His writing often has involved virtual reality and has been seen as relational to cyberpunk. - Jurin Juran
- Tony Hodgson
For 21 years, I've promoted business and engineering applications of computer technology. I'm currently President of www.capfive.com and a founder of www.inworldalliance.com promoting 3D-Web and Virtual World technologies for business. I thrive wherever technology and business goals converge - particularly, advanced web applications - and would enjoy applying my team's resources and experience to make your initiatives a success. - Sébastien Kuntz
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