17th Annual Auggie Awards

Art installations or films, including design concepts, documentary films, 360 video, narrative-based experiences, and immersive or spatial video that explore the augmented or virtual world.

Marketing and advertising campaigns for major brands that use AR & VR.

AR & VR applications available to the public in major app stores (Apple App Store, Google Play Store, Meta Quest Store, etc.) or as a web app, across all verticals.

Designer tools, generative AI content creation, no-code platforms, reality capture, and publishing tools for AR & VR.

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

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. This includes tools for remote and in-person teamwork and cooperation.

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, audio, stationary installations, real-time interaction, hand tracking, gaze, motion control, voice, bio-sensing, emotion, EEG, and EMG 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, VR esports, pop-up installations, and cultural institutions.

Hardware and software to digitally record, measure, and recreate the physical world in 3D with high accuracy. This includes sensors and imaging technologies such as laser scanning, LiDAR, photogrammetry, structured light and depth sensors, 360 imaging and panoramic capture, and aerial capture, as well as processing and editing tools such as point clouds, 3D meshes, Gaussian splats, digital twins, textured models, or BIM-ready datasets.

The best use of AR or VR technologies to make a meaningful and positive impact on the world, including solutions that harness AR and VR (XR) technologies to help fight climate change.

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.

In collaboration with The XR Guild