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Jaron Lanier

ComposerBorn May 3, 1960 (65 years)
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.

Filmography

2022
Piers Morgan Uncensored (TV Series) · as Self
2020
2019
2019
Retro Tech (TV Series) · as Self - Eye Phone Inventor (archive Footage)
2014
The Price We Pay · as Self
2014
2013
Google and the World Brain · as Self - Virtual Reality Pioneer And Author
2012
2010
2005
The Colbert Report (TV Series) · as Self
2004
Tavis Smiley (TV Series) · as Self
2002
2002
VPRO Backlight (TV Series) · as Self - Auteur Who Owns The Future
1997
The View (TV Series) · as Self
1996
Future Fantastic (TV Series) · as Self
1995
Kulturzeit (TV Series) · as Self
1995
1991
Charlie Rose (TV Series) · as Self - Guest
1990
Cyberpunk · as Himself
1982
Channel 4 News (TV Series) · as Self
1964
Horizon (TV Series) · as Self

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