# Getting Started - Founding Brothers & Sisters * Founding Brothers & Sisters * Today's Designers of VR * Future Thinkers * Hieronymus Bosch ### Founding Brothers & Sisters ![Ivan Sutherland](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/20090929week4interactiondesignhistoryfinal-100104173432-phpapp02/95/week-4-ixd-history-personal-computing-15-728.jpg?cb=1262626515) [Ann Lasko-Harvill](https://patents.justia.com/inventor/ann-lasko-harvill), [Beth Marcus](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-new-job-amazon-robotics-beth-marcus/), [Meredith Bricken](https://www.scribd.com/document/366373251/Meredith-Bricken), [Carolina Cruz-Neira](https://www.deingenieur.nl/artikel/de-virtuele-wereld-van-carolina-cruz-neira), [Jannick Roland](http://www.hajim.rochester.edu/optics/people/faculty/rolland_jannick/index.html), [Brenda Laurel](https://vimeo.com/204059899), Margaret Minsky, [Elizabeth Wenzel](https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/9-12/features/F_What_Happened_to_Virtual_Reality_9-12.html), [Char Davies](http://www.immersence.com/), [Monika Fleischmann](http://v2.nl/archive/people/monika-fleischmann) [**article 0: The Pioneering Women of VR,**](https://vrscout.com/news/why-yes-virginia-there-have-always-been-women-in-vr/) [**article 1: The famous 'Osmose'(1995) immersive artwork creator, Char Davies**](http://www.berlinartlink.com/2017/01/04/virtual-reality-healing-practice-an-interview-with-char-davies/) [**article 2: A great virtual reality pioneer Carolina Cruz-Neira**](http://www.themindoftheuniverse.org/play?id=Carolina_Cruz) [**article 3: The Father of Computer Graphics & Sketchpad (1963) developer, Ivan Sutherland**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USyoT_Ha_bA) [**article 4: The Ultimate Display (1965), ARPA, Ivan Sutherland.**](http://worrydream.com/refs/Sutherland%20-%20The%20Ultimate%20Display.pdf) [**article 5: The Father of VR, Atari employee & founder of VPL Research (1984), Jaron Lanier**](http://kk.org/mt-files/writings/virtual_lanier.pdf) [**article 6: The Dumbledore of VR & founder HIT Lab (1989), Tom Furness**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv5gMFb1RG0) [Henry Fuchs & Ivan Sutherland](http://voicesofvr.com/139-henry-fuchs-on-the-early-history-of-virtual-reality-with-ivan-sutherland-the-sword-of-damocles/) [You can't really ask what the purpose of Virtual Reality is, because it's just too big, Jaron Lanier\*\*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oNQK52Va3c) [NASA: EyePhones, Data Gloves & Motion Capture in VIEW, (1990)](https://www.nasa.gov/ames/spinoff/new_continent_of_ideas/) [VPL Research: EyePhones, Data Gloves & Motion Capture (1990)](https://youtu.be/ACeoMNux_AU) ### Today's Designers of VR ![HTC + Valve](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55b31ab9e4b0a06c6decaa65/569583bfa128e6805ab8a068/56d91973f850821330661ab5/1457068471677/5D3_0115.jpg?format=1000w) *"The HTC Vive was designed in collaboration with Valve. As a member of the HTC Vive team, I worked on the design of the system as a whole, with my main responsibility being focused on the design of the controllers. Each controller packs 24 sensors, which enable the system to accurately track its position based on the two Lighthouse base stations." - Brent Barbarberis* [Brent Barbarberis](http://brentbarberis.com/work/#/htc-vive/) (left) has been one of the designers of HTC Vive's controllers. Educated as an Industrial Designer, HTC + Valve provided him the ability to interweave his drawing skills, design thinking quality and knowledge from a variety of expert fields, such as: ergonomics, material design, electronics and prototyping. ### Futurist Thinkers ![Empathic Tele-Existence](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/ar-vr-futuresmall2-170820181839/95/beyond-reality-2027-the-future-of-virtual-and-augmented-reality-62-638.jpg?cb=1503253210) [**article 7: Mark Billinghurst & Bruce Thomas: Beyond Reality (2027): The Future of Virtual and Augmented Reality**](https://www.slideshare.net/marknb00/beyond-reality-2027-the-future-of-virtual-and-augmented-reality) ![Hiëronymus Bosch](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights_by_Bosch_High_Resolution.jpg/1280px-The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights_by_Bosch_High_Resolution.jpg) --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. 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