Jaron Lanier

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Jaron Lanier

• - Virtual Reality Pioneer -

Author BOTTEX Guillaume
Course CS480 Computer Graphics
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Who is Jaron Lanier ?

• Computer scientist
• Musician
• Visual Artist
• Author

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Biography of Jaron Lanier

• Born on the 3rd may 1960
• Education
• -New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
• -Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
• Early 80s coined up the term Virtual Reality
• 1983 founded VPL Research
• 2000 first demonstration of tele-immersion
• 2002 Research on Phenotropics

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Virtual Reality

• "What I envision is not so much a pre-programmed
  virtual world that you might play as a game, but
  rather a virtual world that you can change from
  the inside that people use as a form of
  expression in which they're creating things
  together."
• - Jaron Lanier

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VPL Research Products

• DataGlove
• EyePhone
• AudioSphere
• Issac
• Body Electric
• RB2

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DataGlove
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Eyephone
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Tele-immersion

• Tele-Immersion will enable users at
  geographically distributed sites to
  collaborate in real time in a shared, simulated
  environment as if they were in the same
  physical room.

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Tele-immersion
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Phenotropics

• Pheno- Physical appearance of something.
• -tropics Interaction
• In phenotropic computing, the current model of
  software as "protocol adherence" is replaced by
  "pattern recognition" as a way of connecting
  components of software systems.

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Phenotropics

• "If you have computers running
  identical software, that lack of
  diversity is a core/security problem."
• Jaron Lanier

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Phenotropics

• "If we don't find a different way of
  thinking about and creating software, we will not
  be writing programs bigger than about 20
  to 30 million lines of code no matter how
  fast our processors become."
• - Jaron Lanier

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Bibliography

• www.advanced.org/jaron/
• www.advanced.org
• www.sun.com