Professor James C. Wyant made profound impacts on many people as a stellar scholar, an educator, a mentor, a collaborator, a master entrepreneur, a philanthropist, and a friend. This paper is not really about optics in wearable displays, but about a story how Professor Wyant influenced my professional career development as the Director and then the founding Dean of the James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences. Without Prof. Wyant’s influence, most of my research in optical technologies for wearable displays would not have happened and I would be living in a very different world.
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