MARK BOLAS

Mark Bolas is the Associate Director for Mixed Reality R&D at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, a research scientist, an artist, and a designer exploring perception, agency, and intelligence.
 

Surface/Space

Mixed and augmented reality is crossing the chasm from research to widespread adoption. This requires us to think beyond registered planes of pixels in space, and confront the unregistered mess of users, culture, and application.

Mark Bolas' work focuses on creating virtual environments and transducers that fully engage one’s perception and cognition, and create a visceral memory of the experience. Amongst his courses at the undergraduate and graduate level are the design for interactive media and the business of interactive media.
Bolas' 1988-89 thesis work “Design and Virtual Environments” was among the first efforts to map the breadth of virtual reality as a new medium.He has been a professor at Stanford University and KEIO University and is chairman of Fakespace Labs in Mountain View, California, which he co-founded in 1989 with Ian McDowall and Eric Lorimer to build instrumentation for research labs to explore virtual reality and grow the emerging field.

See Wiki as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Bolas

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