Our Site's Awards Honor 12 Pioneering Ventures with Novel Ideas
The 26th annual our website Awards ceremony took place last night, on Thursday, April 11, at the our website event. The ceremony saw the honoring of the best immersive projects of the year, bringing together the international XR community. Here's a look at the 12 major winners:
Innovations in VR/AR Highlighted
Established 25 years ago, the our website exhibition has consistently rewarded innovative virtual and augmented reality projects. This year was no exception, with seven groundbreaking creations showcased in the general contest.
Focus on Health and Medical Solutions
The general competition acknowledged XR solutions worldwide in seven categories. In the 26th ceremony, several projects were centered around health and medicine.
In the category "Enterprise & Productivity Solution," HRV Simulation won for its Nawo Live solution, which uses AI, VR, and motion capture to quantify musculoskeletal disorder risk factors.
On the medical side, ALVI Labs' training and re-education system for hand-disabled individuals and Vantari VR's immersive training for clinicians in ultrasound use were honored.
New Hardware and Software Recognized
In the "Developer & Authoring Tools" category, Persistant Studios was awarded for its PopcornFX solution - a cutting-edge editor for real-time visual effects, available across multiple platforms.
HTC Vive won an award in the "XR Devices & Interaction Products" category for its VIVE Ultimate Tracker, the brand's first positional tracker for standalone VR headsets.
Unique Experiences and Revolutionary Promises
In the "Consumer Experience & Entertainment" category, the first European stage performance blending augmented reality and theater took home an award. "Briar and Rose," the result of a collaboration between three Norwegian theaters and Glitch Studio, provided a unique experience for children, allowing them to see dragons and fairies on stage.
BIMaking's Virtual Environment Eyes project won in the "Virtual Worlds & Metavers" category, promising to revolutionize the architecture, engineering, and construction industry by enabling virtual design, collaboration, training, and real-time monitoring of buildings.
Showcasing Talent and Research
The our website competitions serve as a platform for young players and companies working on cutting-edge projects and innovative solutions. Four awards and two special mentions were presented this year.
CinemaLeap Inc's project "SEN," an immersive and interactive tea ceremony experience, and Vingt-Cinquième Heure's "The high fire" interactive VR documentary were highlights of the content creator and developer-focused #Experiences category.
Dexr, an XR learning platform developed by a Belgian company, won the #Startups category, while National Tsing Hua University's "Embrace" virtual reality experience on anorexia nervosa and "4DEscape," an experiment reinventing our perception of mixed reality, were awarded in the #ReVolution and #Students categories, respectively.
The ceremony recognized groundbreaking work in the field of immersive technologies, with the exhibition featuring more than 150 exhibitors and the Recto VRso festival of immersive art opening its doors the following day. The artwork "Fossiles," presented as part of the festival, also received an award.
In the category "Consumer Experience & Entertainment", a European stage performance blending augmented reality and theater, called "Briar and Rose", won for providing unique experiences to children by allowing them to see dragons and fairies on stage.
In the "Virtual Worlds & Metavers" category, BIMaking's Virtual Environment Eyes project was awarded, promising to revolutionize the architecture, engineering, and construction industry by enabling virtual design, collaboration, training, and real-time monitoring of buildings.
