The short answer
ARHT Media Inc., the Toronto-listed holographic-telepresence company, filed an assignment in bankruptcy effective 3 October 2024 and announced it on 4 October 2024. Employees and contractors were laid off, operations ended, the board resigned and MNP Ltd. became trustee. Subsidiaries in the US, UK, Singapore and Hong Kong were included. ARHT said it could not secure the financing needed to reach large-scale rollouts.
Timeline
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 2019–2021 | ARHT builds an international partner network: reseller and studio agreements announced in Israel (Golcan, 2019), Singapore (Electronics & Engineering, 2020), the US (Liaison Technology Group and Metro AV, 2021) and the GCC (NMK Group, exclusive for UAE and Qatar, 2021). |
| April 2021 | Permanent HoloPod, HoloPresence and capture-studio installations with two military organisations across three countries, valued over $450,000. |
| September 2021 | Contract with NATO Supreme Allied Command Transformation: HoloPresence systems at facilities in Norfolk, Virginia and Germany, for training and remote expertise; live demonstration to NATO leaders in Brussels follows in May 2022. |
| 2021–2022 | WeWork partnership: initial rollout to 16 locations announced, with plans for up to 100 buildings. IMD Business School installs the technology at its Lausanne and Singapore campuses (2022). |
| April 2023 | FY2022 results: the permanent holographic network passes 50 locations, including 19 with WeWork. |
| May 2023 | Repeat use at the Singapore Defense Technology Summit, including ServiceNow’s CEO keynoting in Singapore live from San Francisco. |
| January 2024 | First multi-country contract: a leading global luxury brand (never publicly named) moves from 11 events to permanent CAPSULE deployments at five country headquarters on three continents. |
| April–May 2024 | UQTR and the Province of Québec invest over $900,000 in a vocational-training research programme; ARHT reports the 13-system project (5 CAPSULE, 8 capture studios). |
| 3–4 October 2024 | Assignment in bankruptcy under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act; public announcement follows on 4 October. Operations end, employees are laid off, the board resigns, MNP Ltd. is appointed trustee. Subsidiaries ARHT Media USA, Be There Networks, ARHT Media UK, ARHT Media Singapore and ARHT Asia (Hong Kong) are included. |
Why it matters for the category
ARHT’s decade of deployments is the strongest third-party evidence that organisations buy and permanently install holographic telepresence: defence and government, business schools, enterprise offices, luxury retail, public research. The category did not fail in October 2024 — one vendor’s financing did. The installed base and the validated use cases remain, now looking for current suppliers.
HEREweHOLO’s own place in that history is practical rather than corporate: ARHT had CAPSULE units built, configured and shipped from The Hague by parent company Vision 2 Watch under purchase orders until the very end — the basis for the support and migration route that exists today.
What former ARHT users can do now
- Installed base (CAPSULE, HoloPresence, HoloPod, capture studios): start with the free ARHT support & migration assessment.
- Comparing current vendors: see ARHT Media alternative and the European supplier overview.
- Former ARHT resellers or integrators: talk to us about representing a current manufacturer.
Sources and reference date
Reference date for all third-party statements: August 2026. Every ARHT reference on this page describes an ARHT Media deployment, not a HEREweHOLO project.
- ARHT Media bankruptcy filing (announced 4 October 2024): company press release and the trustee (MNP Ltd.).
- ARHT network scale, FY2022: FY2022 operating results.
- NATO installations (September 2021): ARHT press release and AV Magazine.
- IMD Business School, Lausanne and Singapore: IMD’s own announcement.
- WeWork partnership: WeWork newsroom.
- UQTR and the Province of Québec (April 2024): announcement.
- Multi-country luxury-brand contract (January 2024): announcement (the brand was never publicly named, so we do not name it either).
Frequently asked questions
When did ARHT Media go bankrupt?
ARHT Media Inc. filed an assignment in bankruptcy under Canada’s Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act effective 3 October 2024 and announced it publicly on 4 October 2024. Operations ended that day.
Who handles the ARHT bankruptcy?
MNP Ltd. was appointed Licensed Insolvency Trustee. Creditors and other parties can find the official engagement information on MNP’s website.
Did anyone take over ARHT Media?
No acquirer of ARHT’s business as a going concern has been publicly announced as of August 2026. HEREweHOLO has not acquired ARHT, its intellectual property or its installed base. Its parent company Vision 2 Watch did build and ship CAPSULE units for ARHT under purchase orders until the bankruptcy — which is why HEREweHOLO now supports organisations that previously used or evaluated ARHT technology.
What should former ARHT customers do with their equipment?
Get the environment assessed: what can be retained, what can be migrated (locations, content, workflows) and what needs replacement. Our structured, free remote assessment is described on the ARHT support & migration page.