After several years of graduate work in cell physiology at UC Berkeley he began studying stereoscopy in 1973, and cofounded StereoGraphics Corp (now Real D) in 1979. He was involved in all aspects of R&D including prototype 3D videogames for the Atari and Amiga and the first versions of what evolved into CrystalEyes LCD shutter glasses, long the standard for professional 3D, and is co-patentee on their first 3DTV system.
In 1985 he started a project at UME Corp which eventually resulted in the Mattel PowerGlove, the first consumer VR system. In 1989 he started 3DTV Corp and made the front page of the Wall Street Journal by introducing the fi…
After several years of graduate work in cell physiology at UC Berkeley he began studying stereoscopy in 1973, and cofounded StereoGraphics Corp (now Real D) in 1979. He was involved in all aspects of R&D including prototype 3D videogames for the Atari and Amiga and the first versions of what evolved into CrystalEyes LCD shutter glasses, long the standard for professional 3D, and is co-patentee on their first 3DTV system.
In 1985 he started a project at UME Corp which eventually resulted in the Mattel PowerGlove, the first consumer VR system. In 1989 he started 3DTV Corp and made the front page of the Wall Street Journal by introducing the first home 3DTV system with LCD shutter glasses and 3D movies on VHS tape at the 1990 CES. Shortly thereafter, TV pioneer Isaac Blonder used 3DTV hardware and software to broadcast 3D programs for shutter glasses all night every night for about 4 years over the LPTV station at Stevens College in NYC for a handful of enthusiasts with my equipment within several miles of the Empire State Building.
In 1997 3DTV won a bid to produce a compact stereo camera for NASA’s Mars program and collaborated with Neotek to produce the first 3D DVDROM system for PC TriDVD. In 1999 3DTV released the first shutter glasses 3D movies on DVD. From 1998 to 2002 He worked in China (Xian TV), Japan (3DTV Japan), Korea (FourVis Corp.) and USA (C3D Corp.), providing hardware, software and consulting for the first regularly scheduled high quality (i.e., full color with LCD shutter glasses) commercial 3D TV broadcasts by terrestrial (cable) and satellite means in those countries.
In 2002 he sold rights to his real-time 2D to 3D converting software (Solidizing) patent to X3D Corp, who put some of the algorithms into a set top box, widely sold as the “Virtual FX 3D Converter”. In 2002 3DTV provided the hardware for TriD, the first digital HD 3D record/edit/auto playback video system running on standard Windows pc’s.
He has been a member of SMPTE, SID, SPIE and IEEE and has published in Proc. SPIE, Stereoscopy, American Cinematographer and Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. The SPIE symposia on 3D imaging originated due to his suggestion to John Merritt at a San Diego SPIE meeting some 30 years ago.
Eventually nVidia Corporation, which dominated the home and professional PC market for stereoscopic hardware and software, developed its processors for AI and became one of the largest companies in the world and ceased to manufacture its consumer and professional stereoscopic viewing kits (i.e., 3D Vision glasses, emitters and 3D ready graphics cards), so 3DTV Corp. began producing 3D vision compatible kits with either VESA or USB port emitters and as of 2020 became the sole approved supplier to the US government and industry.
In 2006 at age 65, he began studying and writing about philosophy (principally Wittgenstein and Searle), psychology (principally evolutionary psychology and decision making) and other aspects of human behavior until 2015, when he began collecting, editing and publishing via Amazon and others a series of papers and books in various languages, amounting to about 100 original items in English or 3000 pages (including earlier work on 3D imaging and psychoactive drugs), all of which eventually appeared free on numerous sites and for the last 10 years has remained in the upper few percent of most frequently downloaded authors on sites such as academia.edu, researchgate.net, philpapers.org, SSRN and others such as libgen.is, b-ok.org etc. with total downloads exceeding 2 million.
Now (2025) 84, he produces revisions and collections of some of his writings in books such as ‘Philosophy as Psychology and Psychology as Philosophy’ (2025).
Partial list of Books in English, most of which have been translated into 12 other languages. Since 2015 they have been published by Amazon, but most are now only available on various sites on the net as a PDF. The first of about 100 English language articles (or over 500 publications including all the translations) were several papers on ion transport in chloroplasts Arch. Biochem. Biophys, Vol 128 no 1 (1968), pp. 142-152 etc.
BOOKS Psychedelic Chemistry, RipOff Press (1974) Psychedelic Chemistry, Loompanics Press (1981) Psychedelic Chemistry, And/Or Press (1987) Psychedelic Chemistry, Ronin Press (1993) Marijuana Potency And/Or Press (1977) Marijuana Chemistry, Ronin Press (1993) The Fabulous Illustrated History of Psychoactive Plants, Loompanics Press (1981) Cocaine Fiends and Reefer Madness- History of Drugs in the Movies, Ronin Press (1982) 3DTV and 3D Movie Technology-Selected Articles 1996-2018 1st Ed (Color) Stereoscopic Press (2017), 2nd Edition B&W (2018) Psychoactive Drugs-- Four Classic Texts (1976-1982) (2016) Talking Monkeys, Reality Press 3rd ed (2019) The Logical Structure of Philosophy, Psychology, Mind and Language in Ludwig Wittgenstein and John Searle 2nd ed Reality Press (2019) Suicide by Democracy 5th ed Reality Press (2025) Suicidal Utopian Delusions in the 21st Century: Philosophy, Human Nature and the Collapse of Civilization 5th ed Reality Press (2019) The Logical Structure of Human Behavior, Reality Press (2019) The Logical Structure of Consciousness, Reality Press (2019) Remarks on the Biology, Psychology and Politics of Religion, Reality Press (2019) The Death of Democracy, Liberalism and Human Rights, Reality Press (2019) Welcome to Hell on Earth, Reality Press (2020) Understanding the Connections between Science, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Politics and Economics, Reality Press (2019) Democracy, Diversity, Dysgenics, Death: the Inexorable Collapse of Modern Societies, Reality Press (2019) Remarks on Impossibility, Incompleteness, Paraconsistency, Undecidability, Randomness, Computability, Paradox, Uncertainty and the Limits of Reason in Chaitin, Wittgenstein, Hofstadter, Wolpert, Doria, da Costa, Godel, Searle, Rodych, Berto, Floyd, Moyal-Sharrock and Yanofsky, Reality Press (2019) The Logical Structure of Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, Religion, Politics, Economics, Literature and History, Reality Press (2019) The Logical Structure of Language, Reality Press (2025) Philosophy as Psychology and Psychology as Philosophy, Reality Press (2025)