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Short Biography
Douglas Lanman is a Research Scientist at Oculus VR R&D. His research is focused on computational displays and imaging systems, emphasizing compact optics for head-mounted displays (HMDs), glasses-free 3D displays, light field cameras, and active illumination for 3D reconstruction and interaction. He received a B.S. in Applied Physics with Honors from Caltech in 2002 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Brown University in 2006 and 2010, respectively. He was a Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA Research from 2012 to 2014, a Postdoctoral Associate at the MIT Media Lab from 2010 to 2012, and an Assistant Research Staff Member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory from 2002 to 2005. Douglas has presented the following SIGGRAPH courses: "Build Your Own 3D Scanner" (2009), "Build Your Own 3D Display" (2010, 2011), "Computational Imaging" (2012), "Computational Displays" (2012), and "Put on Your 3D Glasses Now: The Past, Present, and Future of Virtual and Augmented Reality" (2014).
For additional details, see my curriculum vitae.
In the News
Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs) and Virtual/Augmented Reality
- NVIDIA's Light-field Glasses Prototype at SIGGRAPH 2013 [video interview], ElectricTV, July 2013
- Nvidia Near-Eye Light Field Display: Background, Design and History [video], LightField Forum, July 2014
- SIGGRAPH 2013 Emerging Technologies Media Tour [video], ACM SIGGRAPH, July 2013
- LCD Hacking Trick Could Make Virtual Reality More Real, MIT Technology Review, July 2014
- Real-Life Illness in a Virtual World, New York Times, July 2014
- NVIDIA found a way to quadruple display performance in low-res LCDs, Engadget, July 2014
- Nvidia hacks together two displays to build better VR goggles, Geek.com, July 2014
- Nvidia quadruples display resolution by stacking two cheap LCD panels, ExtremeTech, July 2014
- Doubling Up LCDs in VR Headsets Can Quadruple Their Pixel Density, Gizmodo, July 2014
- Nvidia unveils quad-resolution VR tech, bit-tech.net, July 2014
- Oculus VR hired another talent, Enter the Rift, June 2014
- NVIDIA Research's near-eye light field display prototype eyes-on, Engadget, July 2013
- NVIDIA prototypes its own VR headset, makes personal gaming slightly less nerdy, Tech Hive, July 2013
- A view of the future: light field displays for virtual glasses, Živě.cz, March 2014
- NVIDIA prototypes near-eye light field head-mounted display, Geek.com, July 2013
- Oculus Rift competitor with free focus, Heise Online, July 2013
- GTC 2014 exhibition hall gathering attention for "Near-Eye LFD" HMD, 4Gamer.net, March 2014
- NVIDIA is showing off a stereoscopic, sunglasses-style HMD, 4Gamer.net, July 2013
- NVIDIA's Light Field HMD at SIGGRAPH 2013, Meant to be Seen (MTBS3D), July 2013
- NVIDIA joins the race for the best head-mounted display, Android Headlines, July 2013
- NVIDIA showing exciting plans for wearable tech at SIGGRAPH, Wearable Tech News, July 2013
- NVIDIA shows a near-eye lightfield display prototype with OLED microdisplays, OLED-Info.com, July 2013
- NVIDIA Research dives into wearable tech, Fudzilla, July 2013
Computational Displays
- This revolution will be televised, WIRED UK, November 2012
- A new vision for 3-D TV, Boston Globe, August 2012
- Tensor Displays stack LCDs for low-cost glasses-free 3D, Engadget, August 2012
- Layered LCD panels could create more realistic glasses-free 3D, The Verge, August 2012
- Glasses-free 3-D TV looks nearer, MIT News, July 2012
- Tensor Display 3D TV From MIT Media Lab May Be 'Window Into Another World', Huffington Post, July 2012
- Glasses-free 3D screens let you see the wider picture, NewScientist, July 2012
- More details emerge about MIT Labs glasses free 3D display, 3D Focus, July 2012
- MIT Develops Holographic, Glasses-Free 3D TV, Slashdot, July 2012
- Home Theater Geeks - Podcast 122, Home Theater Geeks, July 2012
- MIT develops holographic, glasses-free 3D TV, ExtremeTech, July 2012
- MIT breakthrough promises realistic glasses-free 3D, Expert Reviews, July 2012
- Holograms, 3-D said to be on verge of new era, Boston Globe, June 2012
- Hitting Every Angle with Autostereoscopic 3-D Displays, Photonics Spectra, May 2012
- SIGGRAPH Announces Papers and Courses Highlights, SIGGRAPHITTI, May 2012
- SIGGRAPH 2012 – Emerging Technologies Highlights, 3D Artist, May 2012
- Out of the Box, Science News, December 2011
- Home 3-D Viewing Equipment Is Getting Smaller and Smaller and Smaller, Popular Science, November 2011
- New Approach to 3D Shown at SIGGRAPH, Display Daily, August 2011
- MIT's Smarter Glasses-Free 3-D Tech Provides Realistic Multiple Perspectives, Wider Angle, Popular Science, May 2011
- MIT prep high-def, glasses-free 3-D, EE Times, May 2011
- MIT Media Lab develops glasses-free HR3D, supports broad viewing angles, Engadget, May 2011
- Glasses-free 3D TV tries to broaden out its appeal, NewScientist, January 2011
- Ditch the glasses for lifelike 3D, NewScientist, October 2010
Computational Photography
- How the Lytro Light-Field Camera Works, Popular Mechanics, July 2011
- Next Generation: World's Smallest Camera, The Scientist, July 2011
- Hardware-only add-on lets phones shoot video in 3D, NewScientist, April 2011
- Computational cameras perfect your photos for you, NewScientist, November 2009
- DIY 3D gets a nod at SIGGRAPH, Hack a Day, August 2009
- Photo Future, Technology Review, May 2009
Human-Computer Interaction
- The place where crazy inventors create your future: BiDi Screen, BBC News, October 2010
- Hands off: A touchless touch-screen may soon reach the market, The Economist, February 2010
- Microsoft's body-sensing, button-busting controller, NewScientist, January 2010
- Gestural Computing Breakthrough Turns LCD Into a Big Sensor, Wired, December 2009
- Big I: BiDi Screen, CNN, December 2009
- LCD screen can recognise what happens in front of it, NewScientist December 2009
- MIT gives LCDs a hand in recognizing gestures, EE Times, December 2009
- MIT gestural computing makes multitouch look old hat, Engadget, December 2009
- MIT's Bidirectional Display Lets You Control Objects With a Wave of Your Hand, Gizmodo, December 2009
- BiDi Screen, on (and off) screen multitouch, Hack a Day, December 2009
- Computing with a wave of the hand, MIT News, December 2009
Course Highlights
As a postdoctoral associate at the MIT Media Lab, I co-instructed two graduate-level courses on computational photography. As a graduate student at Brown University, I served as head teaching assistant for two semester-long courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels on linear systems and 3D photography. I have also actively sought additional teaching opportunities, presenting eight courses at the ACM SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Asia conferences on do-it-yourself 3D scanners and displays.
For additional details, see the courses/projects page.
Courses
Videos of Talks
I have given invited talks at a wide variety of academic, industrial, and government research laboratories and conferences. A selected set of videos of invited talks are included below. Please contact me directly for copies of slides or additional material.
Talks
Last Updated: October 9, 2014