Profile overview
Who is Thomas A. Furness III?
Thomas A. Furness III is an inventor associated with United States. Their documented work in electronics & computing hardware includes Virtual retinal display, the contribution at the center of this evidence-backed profile.
Co-invented the virtual retinal display, a near-eye display system that scans imagery onto the retina; the cited patent names Furness and Joel S. Kollin as inventors.
What did Thomas A. Furness III invent?
co-inventor
What did Thomas A. Furness III accomplish?
The technology established a physical augmented- and virtual-reality display approach and was patented for head-mounted use rather than merely proposed as a concept.
What is known about Thomas A. Furness III today?
AWE USA 2025 listed Furness as founder of the Virtual World Society and scheduled his June 2025 talks; his own contemporaneous post described traveling to the event to announce a Society initiative.
