Mark Billinghurst is the CEO of the Envisage AR Limited, and is also a Professor at the University of South Australia, where he directs the Empathic Computing Laboratory. He earned a PhD in 2002 from the University of Washington and researches how virtual and real worlds can be merged, publishing over 350 papers. Previously he was Director of the HIT Lab NZ at the University of Canterbury and he has worked at Nokia, Google, Amazon and the MIT Media Laboratory. He received the 2013 IEEE VR Technical Achievement Award for contributions to research and commercialization in Augmented Reality, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.