AWE’s Auggie Awards Winners to be announced on October 19

Visit www.auggieaward.com until 1st of October to vote for your favorite VR/AR projects.
The 2018 Auggie Awards to be awarded at AWE, recently described as XR’s most essential conference by AR/VR consultant and author Charlie Fink, are nearly upon us. The nominations are currently being publicly voted for innovative XR projects in three new breakthrough categories this year: “Most Innovative Breakthrough”, “Most Impactful Breakthrough” and an outstanding “Woman XR Laureate”. With these new categories, organizers AWE, VR First, IEEE, and XR Circles seek to draw special attention to collaborative efforts between industry and academia that have the potential to lead to breakthroughs in the popular adoption of immersive technologies.
Most Innovative Breakthrough
Honouring a collaborative project which has introduced a new, novel and unique approach not seen before.
Most Impactful Breakthrough
Honouring a collaborative project which demonstrates a use case which has the potential to dramatically impact the industry.
Women XR Laureate
Honouring a collaborative project by a female researcher or project manager.

In addition to the three new breakthrough categories, the three traditional “Best in Show” awards will also be awarded, all by popular vote, at the AWE EU 2018 conference taking place 18–19 October in Munich.
The Auggie Awards, which are popularly referred to as the “Oscars of VR/AR”, have been awarded annually at Augmented World Expo (AWE) Conferences since 2010. Serving as the culmination of the each year’s largest AR/VR event, the Auggies represent the most prestigious peer recognition in the industry and celebrate the full diversity of the industry, from games and enterprise solutions to tools and hardware. Previous Auggies have gone to projects such as the Vuforia Engine, Microsoft Hololens, and The Raft. Ori Inbar and Tom Emrich, the founders of Super Ventures, Dr Tish Shute, the Director of AR/VR/MR at Huawei, Abby Albright, the Co-founder of The WXR Venture Fund, Hiren Bhinde the Director of (VR /AR) Product Management at Qualcomm, and other big industry names are part of the jury.
Project nomination is free and representatives of both industry, academic, as well as independent XR project teams are encouraged to submit their projects for consideration. Projects are eligible as long as they are either continuing or were completed after 2015, and can include projects currently in the prototyping phase up to full commercial release. Submissions are accepted here, while full submission criteria can be found here. Your vote will be accepted until 1st October 2018.
For more background information, please also read the article from Tony Parisi, the Global Head of VR/AR Brand Solutions at Unity Technologies, and the interview about AWE by Dirk Schart, the CEO at Hyperloop’s XO Digital Labs.
All nominations are also invited to submit an article about their project to VR First Medium publication. Please send us an email to info@vrfirst.com if you wish to have more publicity linked to your nomination.

