17 Jun 2026
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AWE Team
Auggie Award Winners at AWE USA 2026
AWE USA 2026
The 17th anniversary of AWE marked another record year for the Auggie Awards – AWE's long-standing XR industry awards. We received a very high number of nominations and outstanding quality of projects. We also introduced two new Categories this year: Best Reality Capture supported by Reality Capture Network and Most Ethical Product in cooperation with XR Guild.
Without further ado, the winners of the 17th annual Auggie Awards from AWE USA 2026 are:
Best Art Or Film: D-Day: The Camera Soldier
Best Campaign: Toyota - FanPort
Best Consumer App: Google Maps XR
Best Content Creation Tool: MetaNeural Immersive Simulation Platform
Best Content Creator(s): Gabriele Romagnoli
Best Developer Tool: MultiSet AI
Best Education & Training Solution: NICS Korea: Chemical Incident & Terror Response in XR
Best Enterprise Solution: FabStation
Best Game Or Toy: Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow
Best Headworn Device: Spectacles
Best Healthcare & Wellness Solution: ARVIS
Best Indie Creator(s): Year of the Cicadas
Best Interaction Product: Be There Without Being There: Humanoid Robot Immersive Telepresence
Best Location-Based Entertainment: Interstellar Arc
Best Reality Capture: Cintoo VR Experience
Best Societal Impact: Cooper’s Clean Air Quest: Making Invisible Pollution Visible
Best Use Of AI: XR Vibe Coding with XR Blocks and Gemini
Ethical XR Product of the Year: SecureMR
See the entire gallery here.
In addition to the above 18 categories, there was also the winner of AWE's Startup Competition.
This year's Startup to Watch Award goes to PROLO by CG Technologies and the Art Festival Winner is Reality Looks Back By Superposition XR Studio.
Finally, there will be even more winners chosen at the event for the 'Best in Show' categories. Winners of these categories will be announced during the Event Wrap-up on Thursday, June 18, at 3:45 PM on the Main Stage, so make sure you check back on this blog, where we'll update these winners once they've been announced.
Huge congratulations to all of this year's Auggie Awards winners!
