With the advent of mixed reality so fresh in the minds of developers, and yet to fully impact the whole of the professional world, much has yet to be discovered in the way this technology will change the work we do in so many sectors.

Check out our CTO, Ryan Groom, as he talks everything on augmented reality from TedX Moncton in April.

Yan Simard isn’t the kind of person who shies away from scaling a mountain of any height, or any type of rock-face. He’s the type who looks to the top and pushes forward, even if he has to make his own way there.

While we didn’t attend Microsoft Inspire (Microsoft’s conference for its partner community) this year, there were still some big developments that caught the attention of all of us here at Kognitiv Spark.

Commercial aviation will require nearly 700,000 new maintenance technicians over the next 20 years, according to Boeing. Several years of training are required for each new tech, and specialists in complex parts like engines, composites and avionics need further training.

Gensler, the largest design and architecture firm in the world, is known for its structural marvels, from the gleaming, 2,073-foot Shanghai Tower in China to the world’s first 3D-printed office in Dubai, printed and installed in just 17 days.

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.