Haseltine also is CEO of the startup Discovery Democracy LLC that manufactures industrial safety sensors.
He then left for Walt Disney Imagineering in 1992, where he joined the research and development group, working on large-scale virtual-reality projects.
From 2005 to 2007, Haseltine was associate director for Science and Technology, Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)—that organization's first—a position he described in a 2006 U.S. News & World Report interview by stating: "You can think of me as the CTO [chief technology officer] of the intelligence community".
He frequently collaborates with his wife, Chris Gilbert MD PHD, writing, speaking and performing basic research in Mind-Body medicine and Prediction Science.
"Eric has 70 patents in optics, special effects and electronic media, and more than 300 publications in science and technical journals, the web, and Discover Magazine.