Moss: Book II Wins Best VR Game at the 2022 VR Awards

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The 2022 VR Awards are over and here are the winners.

Organized by AIXR (The Academy of International Extended Reality), this year marks the sixth consecutive year of the event. The judging panel, made up of more than 70 industry representatives, announced the 2022 finalists on August 3. The award ceremony will take place in Rotterdam on December 1, 2022.

Below are the nominees in the twelve award categories. Lists of previous winners can be found at the end of the article.

Best VR Hardware

• Contact CI – Maestro DK3
• Emerge Inc – Emerge Wave-1
• Pico link – Pico Neo3
• Shadow – Aero Shadow
• VIVE – Stream VIVE
• Vrgineers Inc – XTAL™ 3 Mixed Reality

Best VR game

• AEXLAB – VAIL VR
• AMATA KK – Onogoro’s Tale
• Fast Travel Games AB – Cities: VR
• ILMxLAB – Star Wars: Tales from the Edge of the Galaxy – Last Call
• Meta/Capcom/Armature Studios – Resident Evil 4
• Mighty Eyes – Wanderer
• Miru Studio – Finger gun
• Neat Corp – Sea Garden
• POLYARC GAMES – Moss: Book II
• Ramen VR – Zenith: The Last Town
• Ready at Dawn / Meta – Lone Echo II
• Schell Games – Expecting You to Die 2: The Spy and the Liar
• Vertigo Games – After the Fall

Best VR Movie

• Alchemy Immersive – The Early Life of David Attenborough
• Immersive Alchemy – Plant Kingdom with David Attenborough
• Atlas V, Arte France, BBC, Serendipity, PTS Taiwan, Wild Fang Films, GIIOI – Missing Images
• Baobab Studios – Namoo
• CityLights – Discover Yosemite
• Fluffy Cactus – Diagnosis
• Infinite Frame Media – The Choice
• New Canvus – Lustration
• TARGO – Surviving 9/11
• Taiwan Virtual and Physical Media Integration Association – Samsara

Better VR experience

• Fast Travel Games AB – Virtuoso
• Film Addict – Le Bal de Paris by Blanca Li
• Studio Hakawati – Wamdah | Journey to the future
• Interactive Media Foundation – MYRIAD. Where we connect. | VR experience
• Meta Platforms Inc. – Post Malone’s Twelve Carat Toothache: A Virtual Reality Experience
• Meta, ARTE France, BFI; Archer’s Mark, Atlas V – Waking Up (At World’s End)
• Schell Games – Lost Recipes
• SENSORIUM – Extraordinary experiences
• The MetaMovie – The MetaMovie Presents: Alien Rescue
• YORD – Lifeboard VR | YORD

Best VR arcade experience

• BackLight – Ascenders
• Divr Labs – The Lost Lab
• Emissive / Orange – Eternal Notre Dame
• INFINITY Experiences – INFINITY
• Museum of Future Experiences – Gnosis
• Red Bull – Red Bull The Edge Matterhorn VR
• Red Raion – The Ecosystem Exploration Craft & Observatory (EECO) Voyager
• SPREE Interactive – Battery Powered VR Bumper Cars
• Universal Studios Japan, Osaka – Monster Hunter World: Iceborne XR Walk
• NEXUS SL VIRTUAL AREA – Dead Mansion
• NEXUS SL VIRTUAL AREA – INVASION
• XR Immersive Tech – UNCONTAINED Hyper-Immersive VR™

Best Emerging VR Company

• Other
• Born Studios Limited
• GeniusX Inc.
• Broken lands
• Future RV

Best Innovative VR Company

• Andromeda Entertainment
• ARuVR Ltd.
• Emerge
• fundamental VR
• Studios of the future house
• Immerse
• magicians
• dreams
• NXRT
• Owlchemy Labs
• Rezzil
• Sensorium
• Edge Virtual Reality

Best VR Health App

• Born Studios Limited – The Forest of Resilience
• Fresenius Medical Care – stay.safe MyTraining VR
• FundamentalVR – Versius in VR: a collaboration between FundamentalVR and CMR
• Ghost Productions – Ghost VRSE II Surgical Simulation for Spineology’s Optimesh MIS Spinal Implant
• Osso – Osso VR: Virtual Reality Training for Surgical Teams
• PrecisionOS Technology – Virtual Reality Training for Physicians Performing Orthopedic Surgery in Low-Resource Countries
• Rendever – RendeverFit™.
• SimX – VR Simulation Training for Emergency Medicine Services (EMS)
• VR Medical – VR Medical

Best VR education and training

• Avantis Systems – Avantis World
• Digitalnauts – VBEE (Virtual Building Element Environment)
• Fectar – Fectar MeetUp – work together in VR and AR – multi-user/multi-device
• Flint Systems – VR Forklift Training Simulator
• Immerse – Immerse
• Ludus – LUDUS GLOBAL: TO INDUSTRY AND BEYOND
• Make Real – Make Real Ltd / 55E5 / St James’ Place Wealth Management – Immersive Role Play
• MEDIASQUAD Ltd – BRP-Rotax VR safety training
• Nexefy Pty Ltd – The KiwiRail Infrastructure Program
• NextWave Safety Solutions, Inc – RV Ladder Safety
• Refense AG – Refense Advanced Tactical Training Simulator (ATTS)
• Rezzil – Rezzil Index 2.0

Best Enterprise VR Solution

• Accenture – Orchestra 1 – The Supply Chain Control Tower of the Future in the Metaverse
• Accenture GmbH (with E.ON SE) – The Republic – The Community for Sustainability
• Contact CI – Contact CI Haptic Integration: lightweight VR training simulators enabling physics-based high fidelity
• Effects in the training simulator
• Dynepic – MOTAR (Member-Operations-Training-Analysis-Reports)
• Immersion – Immersion Marketplace
• Immersion – Immersion
• Make Real Ltd – Make Real Ltd / Tunnelskills / CITB – VR Induction Suite
• SEAT SA (SEAT & CUPRA) – Immersive Design Verification (IMDCH)
• Spinview – Spinview’s Vision OS for Global Media and Entertainment
• Spinview – Vision OS by Spinview for Transport for London
• WaveFunction, Lda – Metaverse Car Showroom

VR Award for Social Impact

• Big Rock Creative and Microsoft – Microsoft Pride: Pride knows no borders
• Cooperative Innovations Ltd – Museum of Plastics 2121
• DiVRse Technologies Ltd – LGBTQ+ Virtual Reality Museum
• Edstutia – Barnga: Social impact in virtual reality
• Found Object Media – The Future of Energy
• Hope for Haiti – Inspire Hope
• Lucid Reality Labs – See the problem
• Magika VRx – Hospice Savannah – SCAD – VR for Good: Transforming end-of-life and palliative care with virtual reality
• Naima Karim – Anticipation of Rain
• Upstream – No one is listening
• Virti – VR to fight discrimination and inequalities in mental health care

Best VR Marketing Campaign

• canVERSE – Arksen 85 Digital Twin
• INVIDAR – Milwaukee HUB
• MyDearest, Inc. – Project: Gathering
• NEKONATA XR TECHNOLOGIES GMBH – Avatar XQ by NXRT
• Philips – Your wonder

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