Rus Gant is a well-regarded international multi-technology artist, XR architect, visual computing engineer, educator and visual futurist. He is currently on the Research staff at Harvard University in the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, where he currently runs the Visualization Research Laboratory and the Virtual Harvard Project, he was recently a Research Fellow at MIT at the Center for Media Studies and for 10 years was adjunct faculty at Tokyo’s Showa Women’s University.
He is currently pursuing work in Real-time XR+AI for scientific teaching and research, this includes the future of real-time XR spatial imaging for immersive telepresence. He is a noted historian and lecturer on the history of XR technology. He is a past fellow at the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, was director of the Visualization Group of MIT's Project Athena and a Fellow at the Center for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University.
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