Talk:Jaron Lanier

message: I'm finding a lot of material that has been cut and pasted directly into this article from either Lanier's website or other sites without inline citations or quotes.  I'm removing them as I find them, but it is looking like the entire article needs to be checked out and rewritten.  I'm very surprised that this sorry state of affairs was allowed to continue for this long; it is therefore no wonder Lanier is so upset about Web 2.0.  If copying from Lanier's website is the best that Wikipedia can do, than our best is simply not good enough. Viriditas (talk) 09:31, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plagiarism and copypasta 

message: It smacks of his self promotion. -- 96.248.226.133 (talk) 02:12, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: No, in fact, it does not. Viriditas (talk) 03:17, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: That's not the first time that this complaint has been made. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Jaron_Lanier/Archive_1#Was_this_article_written_by_Jaron_Lanier.3F AndroidCat (talk) 03:15, 11 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was this whole article written by Lanier? 

message: He was interviewed on Charlie Rose last night (I saw it today).  Should such an appearance be listed in the section titled "In the media", assuming Charlie's Web site verifies it in writing (the appearance IS included on Charlie's Twitter feed)?  198.144.192.45 (talk) 20:38, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Charlie Rose appearance 

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message: This appears in the lede, as well as in the Wiki article on VR. It must have and should be given a citation to a reliable source. As it is, it appears to be without foundation. Note that Lanier isn't even credited here with either publishing anything before 1990 or even being interviewed prior to then (and long after VR was in common use). Also, why is it noteworthy to mention that he said hello to Feynman or Gell-Mann? Unless either he or they can be quoted as ascribing some importance to this name-dropping, it should be removed (as puffery).Abitslow (talk) 21:37, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, you're right about that section, Abitslow. Jaron Lanier's father, Ellery, was my Sunday school teacher in Las Cruces, New Mexico in the 1970s. The part about apprenticing to Minsky and Clyde Tombaugh seems to be copy pasta'ed from a puff piece in a Northern California Jewish community post, Renaissance man: Berkeley resident is a musician, a Web guru and the father of virtual reality. The same is true for the portion about Lanier's mother and father. That is copied verbatim from the Jewish community post, and is a copy vio. I found one reference to Jaron's father, Ellery Lanier, in the New York Times, that said that he had studied at Columbia University in the 1940s. That makes sense to me, and makes me doubt some of the rest of the stuff about the timing of Jaron's personal life section in this article. I am removing the puffery stuff as you suggested.--FeralOink (talk) 21:51, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Credited as popularizing VR?? 

message: Is there a "Minor Frauds of the 21st Century" category, or something like one? Rt3368 (talk) 16:19, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category? 

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message: He met Zimmerman after they both lost jobs at Atari, not while at Atari. With royalties from Moon Dust he started a new project, a Visual programming language. But screen were too small to display visualisations of the VPL. Then he met Zimmerman who told him about the glove. Lanier thought the glove was the ideal interface for his VPL so they teamed up and founded VPL. Setenzatsu.2 (talk) 21:33, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
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