VR Awards Finalists 2022; 6th International Virtual Reality Awards

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
Care

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