Louis Rosenberg, PhD
CEO & Chief Scientist
Louis Rosenberg, PhD is an early pioneer in fields of augmented reality, virtual reality and artificial intelligence. He earned his PhD from Stanford, has been awarded over 300 patents for VR, AR, and AI technologies, and founded a number of successful companies including Unanimous AI, Immersion Corporation, Microscribe 3D, and Outland Research.
He began his career at Air Force Research Laboratory where he developed the Virtual Fixtures platform. It was the first system that allowed users to interact with a mixed reality of real and virtual objects.
Rosenberg then founded the early VR company Immersion Corp (1993) and brought the company public in 1999 (NASDAQ: IMMR). Immersion pioneered many technologies from the first VR simulators for medical schools to the first haptic devices for consumer markets including the first haptic mice and haptic GUIs and haptic webpages.
Rosenberg also founded Microscribe (1996), maker of early 3D digitizers used in the production of video games, virtual worlds, and feature films. The Microscribe digitizer was used in the creation of major films such as Shrek, Ice Age, Starship Troopers, and Bugs Life (acquired in 2009)
Rosenberg also founded Outland Research in 2004, a developer of augmented reality and mobile media technologies (acquired in 2011).
Rosenberg was also a Professor at California State University (Cal Poly) teaching engineering, design, ed-tech, and entrepreneurship.
In 2014, Rosenberg founded Unanimous AI to amplify the intelligence of networked human groups using the principle of Swarm Intelligence. The idea panned out, resulting in Swarm AI, an award-winning technology used by a wide range of organizations from Fortune 500 corporations to the United Nations and the US Air Force.
Rosenberg’s new book entitled, Our Next Reality was published by Hachette in March 2024 about the future of AI and immersive media.
You can view his TEDx TALK on the power of Hive Minds here.
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