Known For
Acting
Born
May 03, 1960
Place of Birth
New York, New York, U.S.A.
Credits
8 titles
Jaron Lanier
Biography
Jaron Zepel Lanier is an American computer philosophy writer, computer scientist, visual artist, and composer of classical music. A pioneer in the field of virtual reality, Lanier and Thomas G. Zimmerman left Atari in 1985 to found VPL Research, Inc., the first company to sell VR goggles and gloves. In the late 1990s, Lanier worked on applications for Internet2, and in the 2000s, he was a visiting scholar at Silicon Graphics and various universities. From 2006 he began to work at Microsoft, and from 2009 forward he works at Microsoft Research as Interdisciplinary Scientist.
Known For
Filmography
The Social Dilemma
Self
Retro Tech
Self - Eye Phone Inventor (archive footage)
Truth in Numbers? Everything, According to Wikipedia
Self
The Colbert Report
Self - Guest
Reich: Three Tales
Self
Visual Velocity: The Work of Stan VanDerBeek
Synthetic Pleasures
Self
Cyberpunk
Himself