The Academy of International Extended Reality (AIXR) is proud to celebrate another ground-breaking year of VR excellence with today’s announcement of the VR Awards 2022 Finalists. The nominees in line to potentially bring home a prestigious VR Award are some of the most distinctive, high-caliber submissions the Academy has seen in the history of the VR Awards. The Academy wishes the finalists all the luck as they enter this Year’s judging stage.
Summary:
- Schell Games’ ‘I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy And The Liar’, Meta, Capcom, and Armature Studio’s critically acclaimed ‘Resident Evil 4’ and Ramen VR’s ‘Zenith: The Last City’ are among the finalists running for VR Game of the Year 2022.
- The ‘Pico Neo3 Link’, ‘Varjo Aero’, and ‘VIVE Flow’ will be battling for the title of VR Hardware of the Year 2022 and non-headset nominees like the ‘Maestro DK3’.
- David Attenborough and Alchemy Immersive scored double nominations for VR Film of the Year with ‘First Life’ and ‘Kingdom of Plants’.
Partnership AIXR and Immersive Tech Week
The 6th International VR Awards, the largest international awards ceremony celebrating outstanding achievements in the virtual reality industry, has announced its finalists for 2022.
After hosting the last two editions of the VR Awards virtually, AIXR is proud to bring the ceremony and celebrations back to real life in collaboration with Immersive Tech Week in Rotterdam, Netherlands. AIXR recently announced a unique partnership which means that the 2022 ceremony will be held live in Rotterdam at the venue: de Doelen on 1st December 2022. The collaboration between the two events is significant as it will allow ITW and The VR Awards to reach more immersive enthusiasts and professionals from around the globe.
The VR Award’s expert judging panel will now deliberate over the finalists in preparation for the big night on 1st December 2022.
Tickets are now available! If you want to join the VR Award’s 2022 ceremony celebrating all things VR excellence, please click here to book your tickets.
The Finalists of The VR Awards 2022:
Below you find the finalists of the VR Awards 2022 per category.
VR Healthcare of the Year:
- Born Studios Limited – The Forest of Resilience
- Fresenius Medical Care – stay. safe MyTraining VR
- FundamentalVR – Versius in VR: A FundamentalVR and CMR collaboration
- Ghost Productions – Ghost VRSE II Surgical Simulation for Spineology’s Optimesh MIS
Spinal Implant - Osso – Osso VR: Virtual Reality Training for Surgical Teams
- PrecisionOS Technology – Virtual Reality Training for Doctors Doing Orthopedic
Surgery in Low-resource Countries - SimX – Emergency Medicine Services (EMS) VR Simulation Training
- Rendever – RendeverFit™
- VR Medical – VR Medical
VR Education and Training of the Year
- Avantis Systems – Avantis World
- Digitalnauts – VBEE (Virtual Building Element Environment)
- Fectar – Fectar MeetUp – work together in VR and AR – multi-user/multi-device
- Flint Systems – Forklift VR training simulator
- Immerse – The leading education metaverse platform
- Ludus – LUDUS GLOBAL: TO INDUSTRY AND BEYOND
- Make Real – Make Real Ltd / 55E5 / St James’ Place Wealth Management – Immersive
Role Play - MEDIASQUAD GmbH – BRP-Rotax VR Safety Training
- Nexefy Pty Ltd – The KiwiRail Infrastructure Programme
- NextWave Safety Solutions, Inc. – Ladder Safety VR
- Refense AG – Refense Advanced Tactical Training Simulator (ATTS)
- Rezzil – Rezzil Index 2.0
VR Enterprise Solution of the Year
- Accenture – Orchestra 1 – Supply Chain Control Tower of the Future in the Metaverse
- Accenture GmbH (together with E.ON SE) – The Republic – The Community for
Sustainability - Contact CI – Contact CI Haptic Integration: Lightweight VR Training Simulators Enabling
High-Fidelity, Physics-Based Effects Within the Training Simulator - Dynepic – MOTAR (Member-Operations-Training-Analysis-Reports)
- Immerse – Immerse Marketplace
- Immersionn – Immersionn
- Make Real Ltd – Make Real Ltd / Tunnelskills / CITB – VR Induction Suite
- SEAT SA (SEAT & CUPRA) – Immersive Design Check (IMDCH)
- Spinview – Spinview’s Vision OS for Global Media & Entertainment
- Spinview – Spinview’s Vision OS for Transport for London
- WaveFunction, Lda – Metaverse Car Showroom
VR Social Impact Award
- Big Rock Creative and Microsoft – Microsoft Pride: Pride has no borders
- Cooperative Innovations Ltd – Museum of Plastics 2121
- DiVRse Technologies Ltd – LGBTQ+ VR Museum
- Edstutia – Barnga: Social Impact in Virtual Reality
- Found Object Media – The Future of Energy
- Hope for Haiti – Inspiring Hope
- Lucid Reality Labs – Seeing the Problem
- Magika VRx – Hospice Savannah – SCAD – VR for Good: Transforming End-of-Life and
- Palliative Care with VR
- Naima Karim – The Anticipation of Rain
- Upstream / Yazda / Surround Vision – Nobody’s Listening
- Virti / Maudsley Learning – VR to tackle discrimination and inequality in mental health
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Rising VR Company of the Year
- Anotherway
- Born Studios Limited
- GeniusX Inc.
- Shattered Lands
- VR Future
Innovative VR Company of the Year
- Andromeda Entertainment
- ARuVR Ltd
- Emerge
- FundamentalVR
- Future House Studios
- Immerse
- Magos
- nDreams
- NXRT
- Owlchemy Labs
- Rezzil
- Sensorium
- The Edge VR
VR Location-Based Entertainment of the Year
- BackLight – Ascenders
- Divr Labs – The Lost Lab
- Emissive / Orange – Eternal Notre Dame
- INFINITY Experiences – THE INFINITE
- Museum of Future Experiences – Gnosis
- Red Bull – Red Bull The Edge Matterhorn VR
- Red Raion / Loveland Living Planet Aquarium – The Ecosystem Exploration Craft &
Observatory (EECO) Voyager - SPREE Interactive – Battery Powered VR Bumper Cars
- Universal Studios Japan, Osaka – Monster Hunter World: Iceborne XR Walk
- VIRTUAL ZONE NEXUS SL – Dead Mansion
- VIRTUAL ZONE NEXUS SL – INVASION
- XR Immersive Tech – UNCONTAINED Hyper-Immersive VR™
VR Marketing Campaign of the Year
- canVERSE – Arksen 85 Digital Twin
- INVIDAR – Milwaukee HUB
- MyDearest, Inc. – Project: Gathering
- NEKONATA XR TECHNOLOGIES GMBH – XQ Avatar by NXRT
- Philips – The Wonder of You
VR Film of the Year
- Alchemy Immersive – David Attenborough’s First Life
- Alchemy Immersive – Kingdom of Plants with David Attenborough
- Atlas V, Arte France, BBC, Serendipity, PTS Taiwan, Wild Fang Films, GIIOI – Missing Pictures
- Baobab Studios – Namoo
- CityLights – Experience Yosemite
- Fluffy Cactus – Diagnosia
- Infinite Frame Media – The Choice
- New Canvus – Lustration
- TARGO – Surviving 9/11
- Virtual and Physical Media Integration Association of Taiwan – Samsara
VR Experience of the Year
- Really Interactive – Virtuoso
- Film Addict – Le Bal de Paris de Blanca Li
- Hakawati Studio – Wamdah | Journey to the future
- Interactive Media Foundation – MYRIAD. Where we connect. | VR Experience
- Meta Platforms Inc. – Post Malone’s Twelve Carat Toothache: A VR Experience
- Meta, ARTE France, BFI; Archer’s Mark, Atlas V – On The Morning You Wake (To the
End of the World) - Schell Games – Lost Recipes
- SENSORIUM – Out-of-This-World Experiences
- The MetaMovie – The MetaMovie Presents: Alien Rescue
- YORD – LifeboardVR | YORD
VR Hardware of the Year
- Contact CI – Maestro DK3
- Emerge Inc – Emerge Wave-1
- Pico – Pico Neo3 Link
- Varjo – Varjo Aero
- Vive – VIVE Flow
- Vrgineers Inc. – XTAL™ 3 Mixed Reality
VR Game of the Year
- AEXLAB – VAIL VR
- AMATA K.K. – The Tale of Onogoro
- Fast Travel Games AB – Cities: VR
- ILMxLAB – Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge – Last Call
- Meta / Capcom / Armature Studios – Resident Evil 4
- Mighty Eyes – Wanderer
- Miru Studio – Finger Gun
- Neat Corp – Garden of the Sea
- POLYARC GAMES – Moss: Book II
- Ramen VR – Zenith: The Last City
- Ready at Dawn / Meta – Lone Echo II
- Schell Games – I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy And The Liar
- Vertigo Games – After the Fall
Click here for the complete list of finalists on the VR Awards website.
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