Scott Fisher (technologist)
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Scott S. Fisher | |
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Spouse | Mizuko Ito |
Children | 2 |
Scott Fisher is the Professor and Founding Chair of the
Early life
Scott S. Fisher was born in 1951 at
Career
Much of Fisher's career has focused on expanding the technologies and creative potentials of virtual reality. Between 1985 and 1990, he was founding Director of the Virtual Environment Workstation Project (VIEW) at NASA's Ames Research Center. They attempted to develop a simulator to enable space station maintenance rehearsal. The gloves and goggles often associated with virtual reality were developed there, along with the dataglove, head-coupled displays and 3D audio.[citation needed]
In 1989, with Brenda Laurel, Fisher founded Telepresence Research, a company specializing in first-person media, virtual reality and remote presence research and development.[1][2][3] Fisher, Joseph M. Rosen and Phil S. Green developed a robotic system called the Green SRI telepresence surgical system.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] Fisher and Joseph M. Rosen developed a virtual environment system for viewing and manipulating a model of the human leg.[12][13][14]
Fisher was Project Professor in the Graduate School of Media and Governance at Keio University. There he led a project to allow users to author and view location-based data superimposed over the physical world, a progenitor of what is now termed augmented reality.[citation needed]
In 2001, Fisher moved to the
Personal life
Fisher lives in Southern California with his wife, Mizuko Ito, a cultural anthropologist studying media technology, and their two children.[citation needed]
In addition to his other interests, he harbors a fascination with
Selected publications
Papers and conference proceedings
- O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference (2004).
- Virtual reality worlds continue to develop by Glen Fraser and Scott S. Fisher in ACM SIGGRAPH Newsletter v.32, no.3 1998.
- "An Authoring Tool Kit for Mixed Reality Experiences" in International Workshop on Entertainment Computing (2002),
- "Micro Archiving and Interactive Virtual Insect Exhibit" in Stereoscopic Displays and Virtual Reality Systems IX (2002),
- "Environmental Media: Linking Virtual Environments to the Real World" in Creative Digital Media: Its Impact on the New Century (2001),
- "Environmental Media: Accessing Virtual Representations of Real-Time Sensor Data and Site-specific Annotations Embedded in Physical Environments" in Proc. of the Seventh Int'l Conf. on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, Berkeley (2001).
- Fisher, Scott S. "Virtual Environments: Personal Simulations & Telepresence." In Virtual Reality: Theory, Practice and Promise, S. Helsel and J.Roth, ed., Meckler Publishing, 1991.
- Fisher, Scott S. "Virtual Interface Environments." In The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design, B. Laurel, ed., Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1990.
- Fisher, S. "Telepresence Master Glove Controller for Dexterous Robotic End-Effectors," Advances in Intelligent Robotics Systems, D.P.Casasent, Editor, Proc. SPIE 726, (1986). [SPIE Cambridge Symposium on Optical and Optoelectronic Engineering, 26–31 October 1986. Cambridge, Massachusetts.]
- Fisher, S. S., McGreevy, M., Humphries, J., Robinett, W., "Virtual Environment Display System", ACM 1986 Workshop on 3D Interactive Graphics, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, October 23–24, 1986.
- Fisher, Scott S. "Virtual Interface Environment," IEEE/AIAA 7th Digital Avionics Systems Conference, Fort Worth, Texas, October 13–16, 1986.
- Fisher, S. Viewpoint Dependent Imaging: An interactive stereoscopic display. Masters Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. October, 1981.
Media appearances
- Cyberpunk (1990) [15]
References
- ^ Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-expanding Technology
- ^ VR's quintessential innovators We take a deep dive into the history of five virtual reality pioneers. [1]
- ^ Monoskop
- ^ SRI Green Telepresence System
- ^ wipo.int
- ^ Textbook of Cardiology: A Clinical and Historical Perspective
- ^ Telemicrosurgery: Robot Assisted Microsurgery
- ^ Robotic Urologic Surgery
- ^ Origins of Robotic Surgery: From Skepticism to Standard of Care
- ^ Robots are people too
- ^ Robotics in Genitourinary Surgery
- ^ Virtual environment system for simulation of leg surgery August 1991
- ^ Scott Fisher portfolio
- ^ Virtual environment system for simulation of leg surgery
- ^ Cyberpunk
External links
- Official page at the USC Annenberg Center.
- Scott Fisher Personal/Professional Site
- Menagerie Project website at Telepresence.