A profile of Lanny Smoot, Disney's first and only research fellow who holds 100+ patents and has built an omnidirectional HoloTile Floor to let users walk in VR
106 right now. He is the only the second Disney employee ever inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. The first? Walt Disney himself. [image] @wired : Lanny Smoot builds realistic, extendable lightsabers for a living. His job involves a lot of making the science and technology behind Imagineers' ideas actually work. Smoot holds more patents than anyone at Disney and has been with the company for over 25 years. [image] Angela Watercutter / @waterslicer : Editing this excellent profile from @marahe on Lanny Smoot was a delight. I also spent too much time looking at the (fantastic) photos and wanting to run amok in Smoot's workshop. https://www.wired.com/...
Lanny Smoot, holds more patents than anyone at Disney—106 right now. He is the only the second Disney employee ever inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. The first? Walt Disney himself. [image]
Lanny Smoot builds realistic, extendable lightsabers for a living. His job involves a lot of making the science and technology behind Imagineers' ideas actually work. Smoot holds more patents than anyone at Disney and has been with the company for over 25 years. [image]
Editing this excellent profile from @marahe on Lanny Smoot was a delight. I also spent too much time looking at the (fantastic) photos and wanting to run amok in Smoot's workshop. https://www.wired.com/...