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.
Jaron Lanier has 6 screen credits in a career dating back to 1990. Signature works include Visual Velocity: The Work of Stan VanDerBeek, Synthetic Pleasures, Cyberpunk. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.
