About

Engineered to Meet Award-Winning Standards.

Aura 360 wasn't born in a lab; it was born on location.

The architect behind Aura 360, Dirk Bezuidenhout, is the founder of the award-winning agency Harties 360. After winning the 2024 Luxlife Award for immersive content, Dirk recognized a significant gap in the market: standard editing tools were either too slow, complicated, or too imprecise for high-volume, professional-grade 360° work.

From Practitioner to Innovator

Aura 360 was created as the "internal secret weapon" to sustain that level of excellence. By architecting the  Aura 360 Suite, we built the tools necessary to handle complex HDR merging, editing and branding without sacrificing the clarity that our clients—and award committees—expect.

Our Pedigree

While Aura 360 is a new venture, its logic is rooted in years of award-winning practice. The technical standards our software enables are the same standards that have led to our continued recognition, including another recent nomination for innovation in virtual reality and photography.