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Mark Bolas is a researcher exploring perception, agency, and intelligence. He is an Associate Professor of Interactive Media in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, Director of their Interactive Narrative and Immersive Technologies Lab, Associate Director of Mixed Reality Research and Development at USC's Institute of Creative Technology, and Chairman of Fakespace Labs in Mountain View, California. His work focuses on creating virtual environments and interactive platforms that fully engage one's perception and cognition to create visceral experiences and memories. He teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate level in the design and business of interactive media. Mark majored in Physics and minored in Music at University of California, San Diego. He holds an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. His 1988-89 thesis work “Design and Virtual Environments” was done under the direction of Rolf Faste in Stanford’s design program and Scott Fisher at NASA Ames Research Center, and 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. |
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