Tonight in Hollywood, California the Lumiere Awards were held at Warner Brothers Studios. These awards honor the year’s greatest achievements in photography and the visual arts. This year, virtual and augmented reality were well represented throughout the ceremony. Check out this list of tonight’s biggest VR/AR winners.
Cher Wang – HTC Vive
AIS-VR Society President Jim Chabin and actress Maria Bello honored the CEO of HTC with the Sir Charles Wheatstone Award for exemplifying exceptional forward movement in the VR Sciences. HTC is the maker of the Vive VR headset, a monumental achievement in optics, controls and 3D positional tracking for VR.
Google Earth VR
Longtime Hollywood environmental activist, Ed Bagley Jr. presented Google Earth VR with the Century Award for VR in service of environmental enrichment. Google Earth VR turns much of the world into a digital playground that you can fly or teleport around in immersive 3D space. From standing on top of the Empire State Building, to swooping into the Grand Canyon, Google Earth VR could certainly inspire anyone to protect the beauty of our planet.
Ghostbusters
The Ghostbusters VR Experience won Best VR live action experience. This was a one-time VR installation put on by Sony Pictures Entertainment and The Void in New York City.
Dear Angelica
The recently released jaw-dropper from Oculus Studios won tonight’s Lumiere for Best VR Animated Experience. Dear Angelica was created using the new Oculus art program, Quill and the results are simply astonishing. Bring your Kleenex for this one.
Invisible
Doug Liman, 30 Ninjas, Condé Nast, Jaunt VR and Samsung won tonight’s Best 360 Series award for Invisible.
Nomads: Sea Gyspsies
It was inevitable that Felix and Paul would end up on this list. The groundbreaking 360 video studio won the Best 360 Live Action award for this masterful work that gives viewers “an encounter with the Sama-Bajau people who have lived on the sea along the coasts of Borneo for centuries.”
The Click Effect
Best VR Documentary went to this piece of undersea VR journalism.
Branded Experience
The aptly named 360 Tour of the Shinola Factory with Luke Wilson won Best Branded VR experience.
Music
The beautiful string symphonies of Joshua Bell VR earned Sony PlayStation and Vicom Inc. the nod for Best VR Music Video.
Tilt Brush
The two-time Academy-award winning director Robert Stromberg presented presented the award for Best VR Experience to Google’s Tilt Brush. Tilt Brush is a tool for artistic creation that has become one of the most recognizable VR experiences and led to some truly beautiful creations.
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Source: The Lumiere Awards: All The VR Winners From Photography’s Biggest Night
