What Is Jaron Lanier Famous For? Does Jaron Lanier Have A Phd?

Jaron Lanier has been on the cusp of technological innovation from its infancy to the present. A pioneer in virtual reality, Lanier founded VPL Research, the first company to sell VR products, and led teams originating VR applications for medicine, design and numerous other fields.

In the late 1990s, Lanier worked on applications for Internet2, and in the 2000s, h was a visiting scholar at Silicon Graphics and various universities.

In 2005, Foreign Policy named Lanier as one of the top 100 Public Intellectuals. In 2010, Lanier was named to the TIME 100 List of most influential people. In 2014, Prospect named Lanier one of the top 50 World Thinkers.

In 2018, Wired named Lanier one of the top 25 most influential people over the last 25 years of technological history.