Presenter

Professor Mark Billinghurst is the Director of the Empathic Computing Laboratory at the University of South Australia, and the University of Auckland. A pioneer in the fields of Augmented and Virtual Reality, Professor Billinghurst has been researching AR and VR for over 25 years, publishing more than 600 research papers on topics such as Collaborative AR and VR, Multimodal Interfaces, Mobile AR, and Empathic Computing. He is known for co-developing ARToolKit, the first open source AR tracking library, creating the first mobile AR advertising campaign, and he co-founded ARToolWorks, one of the first AR companies. In 2013 he was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in recognition for his efforts in research and commercialisation of AR technology.