MARK T. BOLAS
EDUCATION
1983 B.A. (Physics, Minor in Music Technology) UC San Diego
1986-87 (Digital Signal Processing andComputer Music) UC San Diego
1989 M.S. (Mechanical Engineering – Product Design Stanford University
Thesis: Design and Virtual Environments)
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2004-2005 Visiting Associate Professor, School of Cinema and Television, USC
2003-2004 Consulting Assistant Professor, Product Design, Stanford University
2003 Visiting Scholar, School of Cinema and Television, USC
2001-2002 Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance, KEIO University
1994-2002 Lecturer, Product Design Program, Stanford University (various years)
PROFESSIONAL
1988- present Fakespace Labs, Chairman and Co-Founder
Co-designer and developer of virtual reality equipment including the BOOMÒ family of virtual viewing devices and the Molly™ telepresence camera platform. Founding client was the Virtual Environment Workstation Project at NASA Ames.
1991- present SPIE Conference Co-Chair
Chair annual conference on "The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality". Publish joint proceedings with "Stereoscopic Displays and Applications".
1999-2000 Sonicbox, Inc., Chairman and Co-Founder
Co-inventor of key user interface patents and co-author of initial business plan for internet appliance company. Technology licensed by Phillips, Creative Labs, and other consumer electronic companies.
1998-2000 Fakespace Systems, Chairman and Co-Founder
Spun-off company to pursue commercialization of projection-based immersive products including the CAVE, RAVE and Immersive Workbench
1985-1988 Nickolas Agency, Founder
Design engineering consultantancy on variety of projects including novel midi sensitive Cajun accordion for RCA records and robotic speaker positioning system for A&M records.
1984-1986 Bentex, Electronic Group Leader
In charge of engineering team to prototype, build, and prepare for the first volume produced, professional, subsea remote-operated vehicle. Included transferring production to Norway, and supporting first unit in field trials in the Antarctic.
1982-1984 Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Junior Developmental Engineer
Design, engineering and field support of electronic and mechanical equipment support of the foremost geophysical observatory.
PUBLICATIONS
Siggraph04; "Synthetic Apature Confocal Imaging", Marc Levoy, Billy Chen, Vaibhav Vanish, Mark Horowitz, Ian McDowall, Mark Bolas, Proc. Siggraph 2004
IEEE2004; Bolas, McDowall, Corr, “New Research and Explorations into Multiuser Immersive Display Systems”, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Jan/Feb 2004, pp 18-21.
SPIE5006; 2003; Interaction Devices for Hands-On Desktop Design; Wendy Ju, Sally Madsen, Jonathan Fiene, Mark Bolas, Ian McDowall, Rolf Faste
IEEE2002 ; 2002 ; Reviewing Single and Multiple Viewer Stereo with DLPProjectors ; Ian McDowall, Mark Bolas
SPIE4297 ; 2001 ; Single and Multiple Viewer Stereo with DLP Projectors ; IanMcDowall, Mark Bolas, Dan Corr, Terry Schmidt Fakespace Labs, Inc. (N97-125)
SPIE3639-46 ; 1999 ; Physical Presence – Palettes in Virtual Spaces ;GeorgeWilliams, Haakon Faste, Ian McDowall, Mark Bolas
Siggraph98 ; 1998 ; The Two-User Responsive Workbench: Support forCollaboration Through Individual Views of a Shared Space ; Maneesh Agrawala,Andrew C. Beers, Bernd Frohlich, Pat Hanrahan, Ian McDowall, Mark Bolas
Computer97 ; 1997 ; New Developments for Virtual Model Displays ; Ian E.McDowall, Mark T. Bolas ; Computer Graphics, 31(2):50—52,May 1997.
IEEECOMPUTER95 ; 1995 ; Applications drive VR interface selection ; Mark T Bolas, Ian McDowall, Russell Mead ; Computer Magazine. July 1995. Volume 28 Number 7. pp. 72-75
SID95 ; 1995 ; High Resolution Stereo Solutions for Virtual Reality Applications ;I.E. McDowall, M.T. Bolas ; Society for Information Display International Symposium Digest of Applications Papers Volume XXVI ; Orlando, Florida. May 23-25, 1995. pp. 41-44
ACM95 ; 1995 ; Immersive Desktop Display with Axial Muscle Navigation and Control ; Mark Bolas, Ian McDowall, Russell Mead ; White Paper for Demonstration Session at 1995 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, Monterey, CA, USA.
SPIE2653-45 ; 1996 ; Sculpting 3D worlds with music; Advanced texturing techniques ; Christian Greuel, Mark T. Bolas, Niko Bolas and Ian McDowall
SPIE 2177-36 ; 1994 ; Proliferation of counterbalanced, CRT-based stereoscopic displays for virtual environment viewing and control ; M.T. Bolas, E.R. Lorimer, I.E McDowall, R.S. Mead
IEEECG94 ; 1994 ; Human Factors in the Design of an Immersive Display ; Mark T.Bolas ; IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. January 1994. pp. 55-59
SPIE1256-16 ; 1990 ; Implementation and integration of a counterbalanced CRTbased stereoscopic display for interactive viewpoint control in virtual environment applications; M. Bolas, S. Fisher
PATENTS
U.S. Patent: 5,253,832 : Spring Counterbalanced Boom Suspension System
U.S. Patent: 5,436,638 : Image display Method and Apparatus with Means for Yoking Viewpoint Orienting Muscles of a User
U.S. Patent: 5,513,129 : Method and System for Controlling Computer-Generated Virtual Environment in Response to Audio Signals
U.S. Patent: 5,528,262 : Method for Line Field-Sequential Color Video Display
U.S. Patent: 6,075,502 : Adjustable Immersive Projection Table
U.S. Patents: 6,094,180; 6,396,462, 6,774,870 : Gimbal Mounted Virtual Reality Display System
U.S. Patents: 5,905,499; 6,285,370; 6,441,815 : Method and System for High Performance Computer-Generated Virtual Environments
U.S. Patent: 6,128,004 : Virtual Reality Glove System with Fabric Conductors
U.S. Design Patents: D439,576; D439,888; D439,889; D440,551; D440,553; D440,554: Remote Tuner for Internet-Based Radio
U.S. Patent: 6,389,463 : Internet Radio Receiver Having a Rotary Knob for Selecting Audio Content Provider Designations and Negotiating Internet Access to URLS Associated with the Designations
U.S. Patent: 6,684,249 : Method and System for adding advertisements over streaming audio based upon a user profile over a world wide area network of computers
U.S. Patent: 6,769,028 : Method and apparatus for sharing streaming media links