One idea.
Many futures.

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

1951–

Home of the TX-2 computer on which Sutherland built Sketchpad.

Direct interaction, graphical constraints and master/instance structures begin here.

ARPA / IPTO

1962–

The public research network that funded interactive computing and computer graphics.

Sutherland directed IPTO from 1964 to 1966; ARPA funding helped Evans build Utah’s graphics program.

University of Utah Graphics Lab

1965–

The “Camelot Era” lab where rendering, modeling, animation and interactive graphics advanced together.

Its people founded or shaped E&S, Adobe, Pixar, Silicon Graphics, Netscape and Atari.

Evans & Sutherland

1968–

The first computer-graphics company: workstations, image generators, simulation, digital planetariums and dome systems.

E&S became the rendering and display core around which Cosm was assembled.

Xerox PARC

1970–

A research center that helped define personal computing, graphical interfaces, object-oriented software and networked workstations.

Alan Kay carried Sketchpad’s ideas from Utah; William Newman and John Warnock formed further graphics bridges.

Atari

1972–

Nolan Bushnell’s video-game company helped turn interactive graphics into a mass medium.

Bushnell was part of the wider University of Utah computing cohort, though not the core E&S-to-Cosm line.

Lucasfilm Computer Division

1979–1986

Ed Catmull’s group developed digital film, audio, editing and graphics technologies.

Its Graphics Group became Pixar after Steve Jobs acquired it in 1986.

Silicon Graphics (SGI)

1982–2009

Jim Clark built a workstation company around the Geometry Engine and a high-performance graphics pipeline.

SGI industrialized the kind of real-time 3D computing incubated at Utah and commercialized at E&S.

Adobe

1982–

John Warnock and Chuck Geschke turned page-description research into PostScript and the desktop-publishing revolution.

Warnock’s route from Utah to E&S to PARC to Adobe is the lineage’s most direct company-to-company path.

Pixar

1986–

The Lucasfilm Graphics Group became an independent company and ultimately delivered the first fully computer-animated feature.

Ed Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith carried Utah’s graphics culture into a new synthesis of technology and storytelling.

Spitz, Inc.

1947–

Armand Spitz’s company democratized planetariums and became a leader in projection domes and curved structures.

Acquired by E&S in 2006, Spitz supplied the physical canvas for the digital systems—and later for Cosm.

LiveLikeVR

Acquired 2020

Live immersive sports production, distribution, streaming and app development.

Now Cosm Immersive, it added the live-media layer to E&S and Spitz’s dome stack.

C360

2008– · Acquired 2023

Immersive camera systems, computer vision and cloud video workflows used by major broadcasters and leagues.

C360 expanded Cosm’s ability to capture and produce the live events shown in Shared Reality.

Mirasol Capital

2017–

Steve Winn’s investment platform studied immersive media, backed the prototype and led the E&S take-private.

Mirasol supplied the patient capital and company-building thesis behind Cosm.

Cosm

2020–

An experiential media and technology company built to make immersive content social, scalable and shared.

E&S rendering + Spitz structures + LiveLikeVR production + C360 capture, organized around Steve Winn’s Shared Reality vision.