Louis Rosenberg

Author, “Debating the Joint Impact of AI and Immersive Technologies on Our Society and Reality”

Louis Rosenberg, PhD is an early pioneer of virtual and augmented reality and a longtime AI researcher. His work began over thirty years ago in VR labs at NASA, Stanford, and Air Force Research Laboratory where he developed the first mixed reality system enabling users to interact with real and virtual objects. In 1993, he founded the early VR company Immersion Corporation and brought it public on Nasdaq. In 2004 he founded Outland Research, an early developer of augmented reality and spatial media technology acquired by Google in 2011. In 2014 he founded Unanimous AI, a company focused on amplifying the intelligence of networked human groups in pursuit of Collective Superintelligence. He received his PhD from Stanford , was a professor at California State University, and has been awarded over 300 patents for VR, AR, and AI technologies. His books about AI include Arrival Mind, Upgrade, and Our Next Reality.