The VR Awards 2019 are gearing up to take place in November. That’s a little ways off, but the group is ready to announce finalists this week.
Some 12 categories feature in this year’s show. They include Hardware of the Year, which features contenders like Oculus Quest, HTC’s Vive Pro Eye, and HP’s Reverb. Meanwhile, Film of the Year recognizes the likes of Baobab’s Crow: The Legend and Breaking Fourth’s Lucid among others. Experience of the Year, meanwhile, includes the first episode of Vader Immortal and Start VR’s Awake.
As for VR Game of the Year? It’s a lengthy list stretching the entire year. There’s Ninja Theory’s Hellblade VR, Astro Bot, Firewall and Transpose from last year. But there are also more recent releases like Vacation Simulator, Blood & Truth and A Fisherman’s Tale.
We’ve got the full list of categories below. The awards take place on November 11 in London. We’ll be sure to bring you the winners.
VR Hardware of the Year:
Oculus – Quest
VRgineers – XTAL 5K HMD
Oculus – Rift S
HTC – Vive Pro Eye
VR Electronics – Teslasuit
HP – Reverb VR Headset
VR Game of the Year:
SIEE & ASOBI Team – ASTRO BOT Rescue Mission
Ninja Theory – Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice VR Edition
Coatsink – Shadow Point
Sony London Studio – Blood & Truth
Owlchemy Labs – Vacation Simulator
Outerloop Games – Falcon Age
Secret Location – Transpose
First Contact Entertainment – Firewall Zero Hour
Survios – CREED: Rise to Glory™
Archiact – FREEDIVER: Triton Down
Resolution Games – Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs
Innerspace VR & ARTE France – A Fisherman’s Tale
SignSine – PROZE: Enlightenment
VR Experience of the Year:
ILMxLAB & Oculus Studios – Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series – Episode I
NBC Universal & Digital Domain – Eleven Eleven
Start VR – Awake
REWIND & SkyVR – Curfew: Join The Race
Lucas Rizzotto – Where Thoughts Go
Cinétévé Experience & Backlight Studio – The Scream VR
VR Film of the Year:
Fable Studio, Third Rail Projects & Oculus Story Studio – Wolves in the Walls: It’s All Over
Axis Studios – the bOnd
Baobab Studios – Crow: The Legend
Walt Disney Animation Studios – Cycles
Secret Location & Electric Shepherd Productions – The Great C
Breaking Fourth Limited – Lucid
Felix & Paul Studios – Traveling While Black
Simpals Studio – Aripi
Parable, Channel 4 & 59 Productions – Grenfell: Our Home
VR Marketing of the Year:
Backlight, Orangina Suntory & Marcel – Oasis Pocket Adventure: The Infrunite Slide
UDG Ludwigsburg, Nerdindustries & Porsche – Porsche “Hall of Legends” VR Experience
Qualcomm Technologies – Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit 2018 Invitations
NUMENA & BMW – S 1000 RR VR
Proektmarketing +1 & Ledvizor – Ledvizor VR-presentation space
LR Studio & Cartier – VR experience for Santos de Cartier launch
Ready At Dawn – Lone Echo II: Trailer Experience
Happy Finish, H+K Strategies & Ford – Ford ‘WheelSwap’ VR
Rising VR Company of the Year:
KageNova
Immotion
HOLOGATE
Maze Theory
Fable Studio
PeriscapeVR
Lume
Enduvo
AtlasV
Innovative VR Company of the Year:
Make Real
Fundamental Surgery
Amaze VR
BackLight
Spinview UK
Emblematic group
Ballast Technologies
Avantis Systems
VR Education & Training of the Year:
Filament Games – Breaking Boundaries in Science
Vodafone & Make Real – Working at Height
Isbank – IsReality (Isbank)
Orka Informatics – Virtual Training Ship Simulation (VTS)
Nanopixel & Eandis – Training: Replace low voltage fuses without life-threatening risks
Somewhere Else – BODYSWAPS®
Avantis Systems – ClassVR
Immerse & DHL – DHL: Gamification of the Cargo Loading VR Training Process
Engine House VFX – Exoplanet Explorers 2
MOYOSA Media – Mighty Masters
VR Healthcare of the Year:
Immerse – GE Healthcare: Increasing training opportunities for radiographers through VR
Oxford Medical Simulation – Oxford Medical Simulation
Fundamental Surgery – Fundamental Surgery (FS)
Precision OS Technology – Augmented Baseplate Shoulder Simulation & Patient Specific Planning
Oxford VR – Fear of Heights (clinical acrophobia).
Virtualware & King’s College London – VR for Psychosis Research and Treatment
Out of Home VR Entertainment of the Year:
ILMxLAB & The VOID – Ralph Breaks VR
Ballast Technologies & Wiegand.Maelzer – VRSlide
DIVR – Golem VR
MWM Immersive – Chained: A Victorian Nightmare
Dreamscape Immersive – Curse of the Lost Pearl: A Magic Projector Adventure
Holocafe – FaBIOS Fantastic Fun Factory
Zero Latency – Sol Raiders
Vertigo Games & Jaywalkers Interactive – Arizona Sunshine LBVR
Ymagis & Backlight Studio – TOYLAND : CRAZY MONKEY
Ubisoft Blue Byte – Beyond Medusa’s Gate
EXIT Adventures – HUXLEY 2 – THE ADVENTURE BEGINS
MWM Immersive & Flight School Studio – War Remains
VR Social Impact Award:
BBDO DUBLIN – RSA CONSEQUENCES
Vulcan Productions – X-Ray Fashion
Force Field Entertainment – Anne Frank House VR
Galactig – Dementia Yn Fy Nwylo I / First Hand
VILD Studio – CHILDREN DO NOT PLAY WAR
Springbok Entertainment – The 100% – Maggie’s Story
Vulcan Productions – Ghost Fleet VR
East City Films – Common Ground
Artie – Mercy
Visualise, Don’t Panic & ICRC – The Right Choice – ICRC
VR Enterprise Solution of the Year:
Make Real & Lloyds Banking Group – Lloyds Resilience & Vitality
VBlueprint Reality – MixCast VR Marketing System
Autodesk – Autodesk VRED – VR Collaboration
Goodpatch – Athena
Virtualware – VIROO: Virtualware Immersive Room
Elara Systems – VR Command Center
