The author

Paul Duffy

Entrepreneur, inventor, investor and author. Born in Jedburgh, Scotland. Based in Toronto.

Paul has spent 30 years building companies at the edge of new media, from interactive training to holographic telepresence to augmented reality. Since 2008 he has run Moonshot Incorporated, through which he co-founded ARHT Media, which beamed Stephen Hawking, Larry King and Tony Robbins onto stages as live holograms, and NexTech AR, which grew from a $0.25 stock to a peak of $8 under his leadership. Today he leads AI/ML Innovations Inc. in healthcare AI, including Neural Cloud and Quantum Soma, and builds multimodal AI conversation engines with Thingy.

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Paul Duffy smiling outside a brick house in Toronto

Track record

Thirty years of building what comes next.

Two companies built and sold before 2008. Since then, Moonshot Incorporated: an operating company that builds, runs and invests in ventures at the edge of new media, with exits including ARHT Media and NexTech AR.

Years	Company	What it does
2008 to now	Moonshot Incorporated Founder · Toronto	The operating company behind Paul's ventures since 2008. Moonshot founds, operates and invests only where it has hands-on operating access.
2024 to now	Thingy iamthingy.com · Moonshot is founder, investor and operating partner	A platform for multimodal AI conversation engines, now in pilot programs.
2023 to now	AI/ML Innovations Inc. CSE: AIML · Executive Chairman and CEO	Healthcare at the intersection of AI, machine learning and neural networks. Its subsidiary Neural Cloud reads cardiac data at scale, and its new project, Quantum Soma, applies quantum sensing to health.
2018 to 2022	NexTech AR CSE: NTAR · Co-founder, President and Chairman · exit	Augmented reality for ecommerce, education and events. The stock rose from $0.25 to a peak of $8.
2013 to 2018	ARHT Media TSXV · Co-founder and CEO · exit	Patented holographic telepresence. Live HumaGrams of Tony Robbins, Stephen Hawking, Larry King and many more on stages worldwide.
to 2008	ProductTraining.com Founder · exit	Online product training. About 50 people at exit.
1992 to 2003	CCI, Corporate Communications Interactive Co-founder, 50% owner · exit	One of North America's largest computer-based training companies, serving Fortune 500 clients. About 150 people at exit.

On set and on stage

The holographer at work.

Ten years of capturing people as holograms, from the ARHT Media studios in Toronto and Los Angeles to stages around the world.

**Paul Duffy, Holographer** · 1 min 50 s

Paul Duffy and Warren Buffett laughing on a green-screen set — With Warren Buffett, ARHT Studio LA, 2016

Paul Duffy with Larry King on a green-screen set — With Larry King, 2013

Paul Duffy with Stephen Hawking on a green-screen set — With Stephen Hawking

Paul Duffy on stage at AWE 2019 with a NexTech AR screen behind him — Keynote at AWE 2019

Paul Duffy with Paul Anka — With Paul Anka

Paul Duffy with the Dio band on a Hollywood green-screen set — With the Dio band, Hollywood, 2016

Paul Duffy filming Out of Thin Air in a bright loft — Filming Out of Thin Air, 2023

Author's note

Why I wrote The Spatial Realm

The spatial realm is the name I give to all the space that surrounds us as we move through our lives on earth. For millennia, time was money. Economics revolved around the organization of time. But curiously, space has never been viewed that way. Until now.

My dream for The Spatial Realm is that it will inspire you to see the empty space around you differently. When you travel, to see the spaces around you differently. When you engage with data, to experience it differently. When you encounter new products, to relate differently.

I hope that like me you will view the internet not as a parallel universe but a platform to enrich the real world we inhabit. Spatial reality is the next frontier beyond the virtual world we have created. May this new vision inspire your own moonshot.

Paul Duffy, Toronto