Cortney Harding – Friends With Holograms

Cortney Harding – Friends With Holograms

Cortney Harding is the founder and CEO of Friends With Holograms, an award-winning VR and AR agency that specializes in using VR to train soft skills. Projects she led include AvenueS, a voice-activated VR training piece for Accenture that helps social workers with interview skills and won a Glomo Award at Mobile World Congress, as well as being a finalist for a SXSW Innovation Award. Friends With Holograms also produced a workplace exclusion piece for DDI, directed by award-winning VR directo Gabo Arora; a voice-activated pilot training piece for the Air Force; and advised on Verizon’s VR and AR enterprise training strategy.

Additionally, her agency consults Coca-Cola on AR creative and strategy. She has spoken at numerous events, including SXSW, Future of Storytelling, and the LA Times Festival of Books.