Louis Rosenberg, PhD
CEO & Chief Scientist
Louis Rosenberg, PhD is a computer scientist, engineer, and author in the fields of artificial intelligence, augmented reality, haptics, and collective intelligence. He earned his PhD from Stanford University, has been awarded over 300 patents for his work on AI, VR, and AR technology, and founded a number of successful companies including Unanimous AI, Immersion Corporation, Microscribe 3D, and Outland Research.
He began his career 34 years ago at Air Force Research Laboratory where he pioneered the field of augmented reality by developing the Virtual Fixtures platform, the first functional augmented reality system enabling users to interact with a mixed reality of real and virtual objects.
Rosenberg founded the early VR company Immersion Corp (1993) and brought the company public in 1999 on Nasdaq. Immersion pioneered many technologies from the first VR simulators for medical school to the first haptic mice, 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 3D was used in the production of major movies 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 by Google in 2011). Outland invented a variety of core AR technologies, including Spatial Reminders and the first augmented reality media player.
In 2014, Rosenberg founded Unanimous AI to pursue the concept of Collective Superintelligence by connecting large human groups using AI systems modeled on the biology of Swarm Intelligence. The idea panned out, resulting in Swarm AI, an award-winning technology used by Fortune 500 companies, the United Nations and the US Air Force.
In 2023, Unanimous AI unveiled Hyperchat AI, the world’s first hyper-communication technology. Also known as Conversational Swarm Intelligence, it enables networked human teams of any size to hold thoughtful and productive conversations in real-time while also amplifying team intelligence and speeding deliberation.
Rosenberg has authored five books, including Our Next Reality (2024) about the future of AI and XR. His prior books include Arrival Mind (2020), an award-winning “children’s book for adults” about the dangers of AGI, as well as One of Us (2021), Monkey Room (2014), and Upgrade (2012).
You can view his 2017 TED TALK on Collective Superintelligence here.
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Louis B. Rosenberg (2019)
Louis Rosenberg warns about AGI (2017) in Kansas City TEDx
Rosenberg developing Augmented Reality at Air Force Research Laboratory in 1992
Rosenberg holding Our Next Reality, his book about the future of AI (Hachette, 2024).
Rosenberg talking about the biological power of Swarm Intelligence, the development of Swarm AI, and the pursuit of Collective Superintelligence.
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