29 May 2024
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Sam Sprigg
AWE 2024 Auggie Awards Finalists
AWE USA 2024
Auggie Awards
The finalists for the 2024 Auggie Awards competition have been announced! For our 15th anniversary year, we surpassed all figures from previous years and received a new record number of nominations. Plus, with the addition of four new categories, it truly makes this year our biggest Auggie Awards competition ever!
The Auggie Awards (aka “The Auggies”) have been the most recognized AR & VR industry awards in the world since 2010. Now in their 15th year, the Auggies continue to showcase the best of the best in augmented, virtual and mixed reality.
We are excited to share this year's finalists, but also want to celebrate every single one of the innovative solutions that were submitted. Thanks too goes out to anyone who voted, as it is your votes that help to determine which entries are put in front of AWE’s expert panel of impartial judges. The judges will now assess each entry based on quality, impact, and overall user experience.
Winning an Auggie Award acknowledges an organization's (or individual's) dedication and innovation, and also helps to promotes their XR solutions to a broader audience. The heightened visibility that comes with winning an award, or even just from reaching the final round, can help to spotlight a company's AR/VR product or solution, and capture the attention of industry leaders, as well as potential customers, users and investors.
For those that didn’t make the finals this year, there is still an opportunity to be in with a chance of claiming an Auggie Award, as there are additional categories that are only chosen during the AWE USA event itself. These include a ‘Best in Show’ category, as well as the title of ‘Start-Up to Watch,’ which is awarded to the winner of AWE’s Start-Up Pitch Competition. Finally, there is the ‘AWEsome Award,’ which can be awarded for anything from a spectacular exhibitor booth or Playground experience, to an incredible presentation or talk that blows the judges away whilst at the event.
Congratulations to all the finalists, and a heartfelt thank you to everyone who submitted nominations this year and to those who voted for their favorite entries. You can view the finalist gallery for the 2024 Auggie Awards competition here.
Categories and Finalists
This year there are a total of 19 categories. Finalists for each category are as follows:
- Best Art or Film
Assimilating XR – Mawari
CUT, CRUSH, DECAY: A Mixed Reality Dance Installation – Future Arts
IMMOTION’s The Great Migration - An Immersive 360º VR Documentary – IMMOTION
JFK Memento: An Immersive Chronicle of the Assassination – TARGO
Power of XR: See Tomorrow Today – Hololight
Privacy Lost – Privacy Lost (Film Project)
The Bognor Regis Time Portal – Xray
Virtual Gallery – AREYES Studio - Best Campaign
Dulcis in Agro: the carousel of taste – Viewtoo
Hennessy 50 years of Hip Hop – Simone Ltd
LEGOLAND 2024 – Studio Z by Zappar
MIRAI HANABI powered by STYLY – STYLY, Inc. and J. Front Retailing Co. Ltd.
New Messi Chicken Sandwich x Hard Rock Café – CamOn XR
Snickers Super Bowl Rookie Mistake - AR Campaign – Blippar - Best Climate Change Solution
Planet vs. Plastics by Imvizar & Grant Thornton Ireland – Imvizar & Grant Thornton Ireland
Proto Hologram: Replacing Jet Travel by Beaming There – Proto Inc.
Rising Together: Stories of resilience in a changing climate – Virtual Planet do Brasil
SAMARitan – HENSOLDT Sensors
Sketches of Sensorium for the World Ocean – Virtual Planet Technologies LLC
VRClimate – Community Innovation Hub - Best Collaboration Tool
Campfire – Campfire
Hololight Space – Hololight
Mesh in Teams by Microsoft – Microsoft
RAUM – RAUM virtual collaboration GmbH
VIVERSE for Business – VIVERSE
Webex Hologram – Cisco - Best Consumer App
FitXR – FitXR
Lowe’s Style Studio for Apple Vision Pro – Lowe’s Innovation Labs, Lowe’s
Pillow – Pillow
Shader – Shader Inc.
STYLY Mobile – STYLY, Inc.
SunnyTune: Sensory Weather App – MESON, inc.
weR Shopper – weR - Best Content Creator(s)
Between Realities – Between Realities
Getting Things Dun with JDun and JoyReign – Onyx Leaf Media, LLC
Lenslist – Lenslist
Lucas Rizzotto – Lucas Builds The Future
XReality Pro – XReality Pro - Best Creator & Authoring Tool
8th Wall – Niantic
Arkio – Arkio
Onirix Spatial AR – Onirix
Shapelab – Leopoly
STYLY Studio – STYLY, Inc. - Best Developer Tool
8th Wall’s Metaversal Deployment – Niantic
Build Your Own Reality – Sisu VR
Lens Studio – Snap AR
Onirix Studio & SDK – Onirix
XRDriver by GameDriver – XRDriver by GameDriver - Best Education & Training Solution
BG Experience™ – BG Products, inc.
Empower Now Program – Sisu VR
Hyper-realistic Safety Training System (immerseLearn) – Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO)
Immersive Onboarding L’Oréal – CamOn XR
The Largest Education VR Deployment Ever – Holopundits and Kentucky Department of Education
Virtual Reality at Pfizer - ”Upskilling and Training Using Pfizerverse” – Pfizer - Best Enterprise Solution
Campfire – Campfire
echo3D – echo3D
Lenovo AR Self-Repair Guidance – Lenovo
Morita Digital Solution XR powered by STYLY – J. Morita Corporation and STYLY, Inc.
Trimble® SiteVision® – Trimble
XRDriver by GameDriver – XRDriver by GameDriver
XR Guru 3C Enterprise Solution – Holopundits - Best Game or Toy
Arizona Sunshine 2 – Vertigo Games
Game Room – Resolution Games
Ghosts of Tabor – Combat Waffle Studios
Grokit – 3lb Games Inc.
I Expect You To Die 3: Cog in the Machine – Schell Games
Kluest – Sons of a Bit Entertainment
Mirrorscape – Mirrorscape
Peridot/Niantic – Peridot/Niantic
The 7th Guest VR – Vertigo Games
The Fantastics Palastics – The Brand Father / Orb Amsterdam - Best Headworn Device
AjnaXR Pro – AjnaLens by Dimension NXG Pvt Ltd
METALENSE 2 – P&C Solution
Meta Quest 3 – Meta
PICO 4 Enterprise – PICO
Varjo XR-4 – Varjo
Vuzix Z100 smart glasses – Vuzix
XREAL Air 2 Pro – XREAL
Zapbox - transform your iPhone into an XR headset – Zappar - Best Healthcare & Wellness Solution
American Heart Association’s Hands-Only CPR VR – American Heart Association
Bascom Palemer BPEIverse – University of Miami Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
Elevating Healthcare Training through Immersive VR – FundamentalVR
Soul Paint – Soul Paint
XR Mental Health Exposure Therapy for the Global Impact – Lucid Reality Labs
XR Platform for Clinical Collaborations – AstraZeneca & EPAM Systems - Best Indie Creator(s)
3lb Games – 3lb Games
Combat Waffle Studios – Combat Waffle Studios
CUT, CRUSH, DECAY: A Mixed Reality Dance Installation – Future Arts
DB Creations – DB Creations
NEWVIEW PROJECT powered by STYLY – NEWVIEW PROJECT powered by STYLY
Noun Town VR Language Learning – Noun Town - Best Interaction Product
AG-30L2 light engine – Avegant Corp.
HTC VIVE Ultimate Tracker – HTC VIVE
Infinite Kitchen Touch – Lowe’s Innovation Labs, Lowe’s
Leap Motion Controller 2 from Ultraleap – Ultraleap
PersonalSpace: 4DX on the Go – The2H
SenseGlove Nova 2 – SenseGlove
WowMouse App – Doublepoint
XREAL Air 2 Ultra Dev Kit with AR Markers – XREAL - Best Location-Based Entertainment
AC Milan AR Fan Cam – Viewtoo
Carlichauns Adventure Trail by Imvizar – Imvizar
Japantown Geospatial for Paper Tree Origami – Rock Paper Reality
LEGOLAND 2024 – Studio Z by Zappar
LegendARy – Nomtek Sp. z o. o.
The Fantastics Palastics – The Brand Father / Orb Amsterdam - Best Societal Impact
Active Shooter Preparedness Training – Sisu VR
BEN: The Binaural Experience Navigator – Benvision Inc
LGBTQ+ VR Museum – DiVRse Technologies Ltd
Soul Paint – Soul Paint
Thámien Ohlone AR Tour – Santa Clara University + Muwekma Ohlone Tribe
TouchKEY+ Multisensory Station – WEART - Best Use of AI
AI and Augmented Reality at Pfizer - ”Manufacturing AR Co-Pilot” – Pfizer
MetaMe – NTT DOCOMO, INC.
Peridot/Niantic – Peridot/Niantic
VIVERSE for Business – VIVERSE
XRCopilot – Hevolus - Best Web3 Implementation
Arcona XR Metaverse – Arcona
Atlas Space Metaverse Platform – ATLAS SPACE
Byten21 Immersive Web VR – Byten21
MONA – MONA
SEPHORA UNIVERSE – SURREAL Events
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The amazing thing about the Auggie Awards is that the competition is open to anyone, from the largest players in the spatial computing world, to individual augmented and virtual reality developers and creators. The Auggies provide everyone with a platform to earn some much deserved attention and recognition for their hard work across the XR space over the past year.
As well as being crowned winner of their respective category, winners will also receive their very own Auggie Award trophy, a highly-coveted, one of a kind piece of art created by artist Sigal Arad Inbar.
