Mark Billinghurst is Director of the Empathic Computing Laboratory at the University of South Australia and the University of Auckland. He researches how virtual and real worlds can be merged, publishing over 750 papers on AR, VR, collaboration, Empathic Computing, and related topics. In 2023 he was elected as an IEEE Fellow. In 2013 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and in 2023 elected as a Fellow of the IEEE.