Other Work in VR

Other Work in Virtual Reality
by Warren Robinett

Member, Committee on Virtual Reality Research and Development, National Research Council, 1991-1994. The committee produced a book recommending a national research agenda for the field: Virtual Reality: Scientific and Technical Challenges, National Academy Press, Washington DC, 1995.

Associate Editor (1991-2000) for Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, a scholarly journal for the fields of VR and teleoperation.

Proposed the idea of seeing directly into the human body ("medical X-ray vision") using VR goggles linked to ultrasound scanners.

Robinett, Warren, “Electronic Expansion of Human Perception,” Whole Earth Review magazine, Fall 1991.

Activities in Japan

Invited speaker, International Conference on Artificial Reality and Tele-existence (ICAT), 1992 and 1998.

Cover story of Asahi Shimbun magazine: "What's in your dream?", biographical sketch of Warren Robinett (in Japanese), October, 1992.