15th Annual Auggie Awards

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 & VR.

Solutions that harness AR and VR (XR) technologies to help fight climate change replacing wasteful material practices; visualizing the causes/impacts of climate change to generate empathy; or optimizing the design and execution of climate change solutions.

AR & VR tools for remote and in-person teamwork and cooperation.

AR & VR applications available to the public in major app stores across all verticals.

Celebrating content creators that produce and share XR-related content across digital platforms that has a positive impact on the XR industry, with content such as videos, articles, blog posts, podcasts, photography, and more.

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.

Educational or training solutions, whether platforms or custom projects, that help educate and train users on any subject matter.

Enterprise solutions, whether platforms (products) or custom projects, that help to solve business problems and that demonstrate an ability to improve operational efficiency, increase ROI, or add value to businesses using AR or VR.

Connected toy or gaming solutions that enable digital interaction with the physical world or physical interaction in the virtual world, including AR & VR games.

Smart glasses, head-mounted displays (HMD), goggles, heads-up displays (HUD), connected eyewear, and helmets.

Best use of spatial computing in healthcare for hospitals, operating rooms, medical training, diagnosis and telemedicine, patient care and home care, rehabilitation, and wellness.

A celebration and appreciation of work being done by independent XR creators, including filters and experiences going beyond art.

Input/output hardware and interaction software associated with haptics, gesture, eye-tracking, controllers, sensors, cameras, display, optics, audio, stationary installations, hardware acceleration, connectivity, hand tracking, gaze, motion control, voice, bio-sensing, emotion and EEG solutions.

Venues incorporating or defined by AR/VR experiences such as arcades, brick and mortar stores, theme parks and other attractions, concert and sporting venues, pop-up installations, and cultural institutions.

The best use of AR or VR technologies to make a meaningful and positive impact on the world.

Best use of AI and machine learning in spatial computing, including computer vision, 3D mapping and reconstruction, object/text/audio recognition, semantic segmentation and understanding, virtual beings, and more.

Any platform or implementation that utilizes blockchain technologies, decentralization, digital ownership and token-based economics as related to spatial computing and the Metaverse – the new iteration of the World Wide Web.