Now on its sixth year, the Auggie Awards are back, celebrating excellence in Augmented Reality. Each year, the best of the best in the augmented world compete for a one-of-a-kind Auggie Trophy as well as sponsored prizes in both hardware and software categories. Winners of the 2015 Auggie Awards will be announced during a live ceremony at the Augmented World Expo on June 9th.
Nominations are now open until April 30th!
The Auggies promote excellence in Augmented Reality across various platforms and categories worldwide. The competition is an initiative by AugmentedReality.org, the producer of Augmented World Expo (AWE) – the world’s largest gathering of professionals focused on Augmented and Virtual Reality, Wearable Tech, and the Internet of Things. The awards are consistent with AugmentedReality.org’s mission to educate, connect, and hatch new initiatives in the augmented world, and its global goal to inspire adoption towards one billion active AR users by 2020. AugmentedReality.org is co-sponsoring this competition, offering award trophies and cash prizes.
Check out the previous winners of The Auggie Awards (2010-2014).
HOW IT WORKS
April 6 to April 30: Nominations are submitted to AWE
May 1 to May 30: Submissions are voted on by the public to select the finalists
June 1 to June 8: Finalists are judged by a panel of judges to select the winners
June 9 at 6:30pm: Winners are announced at the Auggie Award Ceremony during AWE 2015
2015 AUGGIE AWARD CATEGORIES
Auggie Awards will be awarded in these categories:
1. Best Smart Glasses
Connected eyewear including glasses, goggles, head mounted displays, heads-up displays and helmets
2. Best Hardware
Wearables, gesture and input devices, sensors, cameras, displays, stationary installations, chips and robotics
3. Best App (co-sponsored with Epson)
Mobile and wearable apps that interact with the physical world
4. Best Campaign (Co-sponsored with Qualcomm)
Marketing campaigns for major brands that interact with the real world on any platform
5. Best Enterprise Solution (co-sponsored with DAQRI)
Applications that solve business problems through interaction with the physical world on any platform
6. Best Tool
Software Developer Kits and other creation tools that enable interaction with the real world, on any platform
7. Best Game or Toy (co-sponsored with Intel)
Mobile and wearable apps or toys that enable digital interaction with the physical world
8. Best Sci-Fi to Reality (The IEEE Challenge)
Applications that implement design concepts depicted in a Sci-Fi film. Read more here.
9. Best Art or Film
Art Installations or Films including design concepts and documentary films that explore an augmented world
10. Best in Show
Any presenting company at AWE 2015 (exhibitor, speaker) is eligible to be nominated and the winner will be selected through popular vote at the show
PRIZES
AWE and its award sponsors are proud to offer sponsored prizes and 10 coveted Auggie Trophies – each one-of-a-kind art sculpture by renowned artist Sigal Arad Inbar. 3D Model by Brian Yetzer. Other prizes will be published soon.
2015 JUDGING PANEL
JUDGING CRITERIA
Quality
How well did the application, hardware, tool or art include elements of creativity and originality specifically applied to augmented reality or wearables in a given category.
User Experience
Is the solution well designed, easy to use and visually appealing and how innovative is the user interaction with the physical world.
Impact
Does the application, hardware, tool or art advance the adoption of augmented reality and improve the quality of people’s lives.
HOW DO I ENTER?
- First, read the rules.
- Sign in to the Auggie Awards site.
- Select a relevant category and submit your nomination along with contact info, description, video URL, the sub category, and the additional fields.
- If your submission adheres to the rules it will appear on the Auggie Award page for public voting.
- You may sign in to update the details of your nomination before the public voting starts
- Once public voting starts, share it with your community to get more votes!
Nominations are now open!
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