Alex Kipman, Technical Fellow at Microsoft and creator of HoloLens, gave a keynote speech this week to de:code 2017 in Tokyo on the current state of Mixed Reality, and Microsoft’s outlook for the next 24-36 months of development for MR.

Ryan Groom, Kognitiv Spark’s Co-Founder & CTO, was a guest speaker today on Microsoft’s Webinar titled “Introduction to Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality”.

Kognitiv Spark has plunged into the heady market for augmented realty training products, and is now using its traction to raise capital.

Kognitiv Spark’s Co-Founder & CTO Ryan Groom was among the speakers at the 2017 TedX event in Moncton this past Saturday at the Capitol Theatre.

Plenty in tech are convinced augmented reality is What Comes Next after smartphones. We know Microsoft and Magic Leap are working on headsets that transplant computer images into the real world, and it’s strongly suspected that other giants like Facebook and Apple are doing something similar.

It’s something out of science fiction: life-like holograms that can interact with objects in the real world, be looked at from any angle and manipulated with hand gestures.