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An American computer scientist, best known for popularizing the term virtual reality.
Jaron Zepel Lanier is an American computer scientist, best known for popularizing the term virtual reality (VR). A pioneer in the field of VR, 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. More recently, he has acted as an advisor to Linden Lab on their virtual world product Second Life, and as a partner architect for Microsoft's controller-free Kinect device for Xbox 360.

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I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

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Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era it will have to come from the soul alone.