The annual Auggie Awards have been the most recognized industry AR & VR awards show in the world since 2010. Now in its 10th year, the Auggies continue to showcase the best of the best in augmented and virtual reality.
Winners are presented with a prestigious Auggie Award live on stage at the Auggie Awards Ceremony, which will take place this year at AWE USA 2019 on May 30th.
Art Installations or films including design concepts and documentary films and 360 video that explore the augmented or virtual world.
Marketing and advertising campaigns for major brands that use AR and VR.
AR and VR applications available to the public in major app stores across all verticals.
Designer tools, Content creation, reality capture, and publishing tools for AR & VR.
Tracking & Mapping SDKs, navigation, recognition, analytics, workflow and optimization tools enabling developers to create AR & VR experiences.
Enterprise solutions that solve business problems using AR, and VR.
Connected toy or gaming solutions that enable digital interaction with the physical world or physical interaction in the virtual world.
Smartglasses, head-mounted displays (HMD), goggles, heads-up displays (HUD), connected eyewear, and helmets.
Haptics, gesture, eye-tracking, controllers, sensors, cameras, display, audio, stationary installations, hardware acceleration and connectivity.
Hand tracking, gaze, motion control, voice, bio-sensing, emotion, and EEG solutions
AR & VR projects that are focused on positive impact. Sponsored by Virtual World Society
In addition to the 11 main Auggie Award categories, AWE is pleased to present 5 additional honors which will be presented at AWE USA 2019.
All of these categories DO NOT require organizations to submit nominations via the Auggie Portal and do not follow the same process as the 11 categories outlined above.
All presenting AR companies at AWE 2019 (exhibitor, speaker and Playground) are automatically eligible to be nominated for this award. The winner will be selected through popular vote at the show and announced on stage on May 31, 2019.
All presenting VR companies at AWE 2019 (exhibitor, speaker and Playground) are automatically eligible to be nominated for this award. The winner will be selected through popular vote at the show and announced on stage on May 31, 2019.
All presenting XR startups at AWE 2019 (exhibitor, speaker and Playground) are automatically eligible to be nominated for this award. The winner will be selected by a panel of judges and announced on stage on May 31, 2019.
The Virtual World Society will select a pioneer in XR to honor at AWE USA 2019 during the Auggie Awards ceremony on May 30, 2019.
AugmentedReality.org will select a moonshot concept or prototype that are straight out of a Sci-Fi novel to be honored at AWE USA 2018 during the Auggie Award ceremony on May 30, 2019.
Hiren Bhinde
Director Product Management (VR/AR), Qualcomm
Dr. Hong Cho
Kopin
David Beard
Product Management, DAQRI
Duffy fallon
Associate Product Manager, PTC Vuforia
Jay iorio
Director of Innovation, IEEE Standards Association
Juergen Lumera
Director of Global Product Management, Bosch
Brandon Bray
Microsoft
Ori Inbar
Board Member, AugmentedReality.org
Tom emrichh
Board Member, AugmentedReality.org
Phil Keslin
CTO, Niantic
Pearly Chen
Chief of Staff, HTC
Tish Shute
Director AR/VR, Corporate Technology Strategy, Huawei
Justin Quimby
Senior Product Manager, Google AR/VR
Dave Lorenzini
Board Member, AugmentedReality.org
Mark Billinghurst
Director, HIT Lab
Mark Sage
Executive Director, AR for Enterprise Association (The AREA)
Brian Mullins
Board Member, AugmentedReality.org
Linda Jacobson
Board of Directors, Virtual World Society
Brad Weiers
Product Manager, Unity
Tom Furness
Founder, Virtual World Society
Abby Albright
Co-Founder, WXR Fund
The XR industry nominates products and solutions in one of eleven active categories.
All nominations must adhere to the Auggie Awards Rules and Regulations to be eligible for an award.
Selected nominees move forward to public voting.
The public is asked to vote for the nominees they wish to see as finalists in each category.
Public Voting results are used to select the five finalists in each of the 10 active Auggie Award categories. The judging panel will have the opportunity to “save” some nominations they wish to see included as a finalist.
These finalists move to the judging round which occurs from April 29 - May 10.
Our panel of judges rate the finalists and these ratings will determine the winners for each category.
The winners will be announce on stage at AWE USA 2019 on May 30, 2019