My name in lights across Times Square billboards and the Brooklyn Bridge. It was a dream come true to have my Augmented Reality artwork featured across multiple billboards in Times Square and on the Brooklyn Bridge. Honoured to have been a part of the historic Artifex Project. Grateful to the team and Illkoncept for these incredible photographs ..read more

Covid-19 has supercharged all things virtual, propelling industries like retail well into the future. According to IBM’s 2020 U.S. Retail Index report, the pandemic has accelerated the shift to digital shopping by roughly five years. My latest article on Augmented Reality and retail published by Harvard Business Review ..read more

With many of us now at home during a global pandemic, Augmented Reality is a tool that can help us transform our immediate surroundings into learning, work, and entertainment spaces. My latest for The World Economic Forum: “3 ways Augmented Reality can have a positive impact on society ..read more

  I’m very proud and honoured to have “Augmented Human” named one of the “Best Augmented Reality Books of All Time” by BookAuthority. As featured on CNN, Forbes, and Inc, BookAuthority identifies and rates the best books in the world, based on public mentions, recommendations, ratings, and sentiment. A big thank you to my publisher O’Reilly and my dear readers around the world for all their support! Grateful and always so thrilled to see your photos of “Augmented Human” from across the globe! Get your copy of “Augmented Human” (now available in 5 languages worldwide): ENGLISH: AMAZON (US ..read more

Across realities (XR) — Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Virtual Beings — Goes Pop documents how these extensions of reality are permeating popular culture though art, fashion, music, games, & celebrity. XRGOESPOP.COM ..read more

  Left: Original collage “Mae West's Face which May be Used as a Surrealist Apartment” Salvador Dalí, 1934, Art Institute of Chicago. Right: Augmented Realty collage of Dalí’s “Mae West’s Face” by Helen Papagiannis, 2019. In honour of what would have been Salvador Dalí’s 115th birthday, I recreated his 1934 collage, “Mae West's Face which May be Used as a Surrealist Apartment” in Augmented Reality. Although he never lived to see AR technology, Dalí and the Surrealists created augmented realities of their own. Dalí’s wildly imaginative collages and paintings have been a great inspiration ..read more

  The red (pink) carpet last night at the annual Met Gala was… “off.” Intentionally.  The theme of the 2019 Met Gala, an annual fundraiser to benefit the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York City, took inspiration from Susan Sontag’s 1964 essay “Notes on Camp.” CAMP: Notes on Fashion, photo: Met Museum Graphic: Helen Papagiannis This quote from Sontag particularly stood out for me (the 8th of 58 notes in the essay) as it well describes the fantastical side of Augmented Reality (AR) of "things-being-what-they-are-not”. It’s also perfect for my game “Real or AR ..read more

  LAMY specs vol. 4 and LAMY Lx Rosegold Fountain pen. Photo: Helen Papagiannis The latest issue of LAMY specs is out! Vol. 4 explores the theme of taking on new perspectives and it's fittingly Augmented Reality enabled.  Use your smartphone and the LAMY app (iOS and Android) to scan the pages of the magazine and see the AR content come to life. The cover experience has you feeling like Alice stepping through the looking glass into LAMY-land. Objects twist and twirl, gravity is suspended, and light refractions and subtle shadows invite you to look closer. Christoph Niemann in colla ..read more

  Dr. Helen Papagiannis at SXSW Book Signing for Augmented Human Massive thanks to SXSW for inviting me to speak about Augmented Reality and hosting a book signing for Augmented Human! It was a great honour to kick off the day and open the AR VR track. Thank you to the audience for playing “Real or AR” with me on stage and the thoughtful questions. Seats were starting to fill up in my room an hour prior at 830am! SXSW shared it was the # 1 requested presentation with 3200 people favourited/signed up for my talk. Room capacity was 310 and I’m so sorry friends if you were turned away at th ..read more

  I’m thrilled to be giving the opening talk in the AR VR MR track at SXSW Interactive this year! Thank you SXSW for the invitation—I’m honoured to be part of such an incredible line-up! See you in Austin. Augmented Reality: Amplifying Human Intelligence Dr. Helen Papagiannis, Ph.D. MAR 11, 2019 | 9:30AM – 10:30AM The power of Augmented Reality resides in its capacity to amplify human possibility: creative expression, knowledge, and connection. With AR rapidly advancing as a new medium, we must ask: How can we design experiences to enhance and enrich a user’s life and extend our humanity ..read more