Nominations for VR Awards

On 9 October 2017, a VR Awards ceremony will be held in London for the first time. During the event, the best products around virtual reality will be awarded. Now the Nominations announced for the individual categories.

VR Bound organises the VR Awards 2017, in collaboration with sponsors HP, AMD and Foundry. The jury consists of 38 members, including journalists and people from the industry. The following may be the List be considered with the 12 categories.

VR Glasses of the Year

• HTC Vive
• Oculus Rift
• OSVR - Razer
• PlayStation VR
• StarVR - Starbreeze

Mobile VR Glasses of the Year

• Merge VR
• Google Daydream View
• Samsung Gear VR
• Homido V2

VR Hardware of the Year

• Birdly - Sominacs
• Leap Motion
• Oculus Touch
• Hardlight Suit - NullSpace VR
• Ultrahaptics

VR Game of the Year

• Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality - Owlchemy Labs
• Robo Recall - Epic Games
• Audioshield - Dylan Fitterer
• Lucky's Tale - Playful Corp
• Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes - Steel Crate Games
• Raw Data - Survios
• Tender Claws - Virtual Virtual Reality
• Arizona Sunshine - Vertigo Games & Jay Walkers Interactive
• SUPERHOT VR - Superhot Team
• Battlezone - Rebellion
• Lone Echo - Ready at Dawn

Most innovative VR company of the year

• Zero Latency
• Technicolor Experience Center
• G'Audio Lab
• Merge VR
• Globacore
• Jaunt VR

VR Experience of the Year

• theblu - WEVR
• Horizons VR - Reactify
• Rec Room - Against Gravity
• Tilt Brush - Google
• Google Earth VR - Google
• Mission:ISS - Magnopus
• Home - A VR Spacewalk - REWIND
• Richie's Plank Experience - Toast

Most creative use of marketing in VR

• Virtual Explorer - Greenpeace
• UNICEF 360 - Idea Studio
• Ford F-150 Raptor: Born to Baja - Optima Batteries
• ABC - 'Catch Jack' Time After Time - Pebble Studios
• IKEA VR - IKEA
• Jaguar Electrifies - The Future is Now - Imagination
• The Chainsmokers: Paris VR - Kuju
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: VR - Framestore
• Alien: Covenant In Utero - RSA VR
• Capital Creates Change - Infinite360

Interactive VR Film of the Year

• 'The Mummy' Zero Gravity Stunt VR Experience - 5th Wall
• Tabel - Google
• INVASION! - Baobab Studios
• Allumette - Penrose Studios
• KOBOLD VR - Anotherworld VR
• Separate Silences - Hver Sin Stilhed

VR Startup of the Year

• Inception VR
• Cerevrum Inc.
• MANDT VR
• LiveLike
• MetaVRse

Best VR app for education or training

• VR Education Experiences - Unimersiv
• PROCAT - Make Real
• VF4-360 - Leicester Fire and Rescue
• VirtualSpeech - VirtualSpeech
• BLVRD - Boulevard
• Skill Hub VR - Cerevrum Inc.
• EDF Energy 'Reactor Builder' - Make Real
• ITI Crane Simulator - Industrial Training International
• Space Descent VR with Time Peake - Alchemy VR

Best use of VR in healthcare

• VRSIMS - AiSolve
• Osso VR - Osso VR
• Vivid Vision - Vivid Vision
• ImmersiCare - Tribemix

Best VR Arcade

• Ghostbusters: Dimension - The VOID
• The Repository - Universal Creative
• Derren Brown's Ghost Train
• Zero Latency
• Magic Butterfly - REWIND

Source: VRODO