As we reported last February, VR Bound along with sponsors are organizing the inaugural VR awards in London on October 9. VR Bound announced the shortlisted nominees for the awards’ twelve categories earlier this week and you can see them below.
VR Headset of the Year:
HTC Vive
Oculus Rift
Razer OSVR
Sony PlayStation VR
Starbreeze StarVR
VR Hardware of the Year:
SOMNIACS Birdly
Leap Motion
Oculus Touch
NullSpace VR Hardlight Suit
Ultrahaptics
VR Game of the Year:
Owlchemy Labs & Adult Swim Games – Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality
Epic Games – Robo Recall
Dylan Fitterer – Audioshield
Playful – Lucky’s Tale
Steel Crate Games – Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Survios – Raw Data
Tender Claws – Virtual Virtual Reality
Vertigo Games & Jaywalkers Interactive – Arizona Sunshine
SUPERHOT Team – SUPERHOT VR
Rebellion – Battlezone
Ready At Dawn – Lone Echo
Innovative VR Company of the Year:
Zero Latency
Technicolor Experience Center
G’Audio Lab
Merge VR
Globacore
Jaunt VR
VR Experience of the Year:
WEVR – theBlu
Horizons Studio – Horizons VR
Against Gravity – Rec Room
Google – Tilt Brush
Google – Google Earth VR
Magnopus – Mission:ISS
BBC & REWIND – Home – A VR Spacewalk
Toast – Richie’s Plank Experience
Most Creative use of Marketing in VR:
Greenpeace – Virtual Explorer
Idea Studio – UNICEF 360°
Ford Motor Company / GTB Agency – Ford F-150 Raptor: Born to Baja
Pebble Studios – ABC – ‘Catch Jack’ Time After Time
IKEA – IKEA VR
Imagination & REWIND – Jaguar Electrifies – The Future Is Now
Kuju – The Chainsmokers: Paris VR
Framestore – Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: VR
RSA VR – Alien: Covenant In Utero | A Virtual Reality Experience
Infinite360 – Capital Creates Change
Interactive VR Media/Film of the Year:
5TH WALL – ‘The Mummy’ Zero Gravity Stunt VR Experience
Google – Tabel
Baobab Studios – INVASION!
Penrose Studios – Allumette
Anotherworld VR – KOBOLD VR
Hver Sin Stilhed – Separate Silences
VR Startup of the Year:
Inception VR
Cerevrum Inc.
MANDT VR
LiveLike
MetaVRse
Best use of VR in Education and Training:
Unimersiv – Virtual Reality Educational Experiences
Make Real – PROCAT
Leicester Fire and Rescue Service – VF4-360
VirtualSpeech – VirtualSpeech
Boulevard Arts, Inc. – Boulevard
Cerevrum Inc. – Skill Hub VR
Make Real – EDF Energy “Reactor Builder”
Industrial Training International – ITI Crane Simulator
Alchemy VR – Space Descent VR with Tim Peake
Best use of VR in Healthcare:
AiSolve – VRSIMS
Osso VR – Osso VR
Vivid Vision – Vivid Vision
Tribemix – ImmersiCare
Best out of home VR Entertainment:
THE VOID – THE VOID’s Ghostbusters: Dimension
Universal Parks & Resorts – The Repository
Thorpe Park Merlin Entertainment – Derren Brown’s Ghost Train
Zero Latency – Zero Latency
REWIND & Welsh National Opera – Magic Butterfly
The shortlisted nominees were chosen from a larger pool of hundreds of games, products, and experiences. The judges for the awards include journalists, marketers, venture capitalists, CEOs, and writers with expertise in VR.
If you’re interested in attending the black-tie event yourself, tickets start at £160 per person. Table tickets run £1440 for ten people, going up to £2580 for VIPs.
Correction: A previous version of this post had the incorrect date.
