[2] He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington's Human Interface Technology Laboratory in 2002.
Billinghurst's doctoral advisors were Linda Shapiro and Thomas A. Furness III.
[7][11] In 2001, Billinghurst co-founded ARToolworks and helped to create ARToolKit, an open source AR development platform.
[3] Billinghurst is part of the New Zealand Government’s Growth and Innovation Advisory Board, being appointed in 2005.
[2] Billinghurst's previous work includes jobs with ATR Research Labs in Japan, British Telecom's Advanced Perception Unit, an internship with Hit Lab US,[1] Nokia, Google, Amazon[7] and the MIT Media Laboratory.