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The annual Proto Awards, set up to highlight and honour the best and brightest the VR industry has to offer, is over for another year, with Google’s Tilt Brush walking away as the overall winner. But who else made the grade? Here’s a breakdown of all the nominees and winners across all categories.

Now in its 3rd year, the annual Proto Awards have shadowed Oculus’ developer conference Connect since the first event, with an aim to celebrate the best that this new immersive industry has to offer. Held at AVALON in Hollywood, CA, the event featured nominees vying for recognition across 17 categories, and one special award. Here they all are.

Best Social Experience:

AltspaceVR – AltspaceVR (Winner)

Lecture VR – Immersive VR Education Ltd.

Rec Room – Against Gravity

Pool Nation VR – Perilous Orbit & Cherry Pop Games

New Retro Arcade: Neon – Digital Cybercherries Limited

Speech Center VR – Cerevrum Inc

Best Mobile Experience:

Tactera – E McNeill (Winner)

The Night Cafe: A VR Tribute to Vincent Van Gogh – Borrowed Light Studios

Ctrl – Breaking Fourth

Zen Zone – Aaron Lemke

Pearl – Google Spotlight Studios

Music From Every Angle – m ss ng p eces

Most Transportive Experience:

theBlu: Season 1 – Wevr (Winner)

Apollo 11 VR – Immersive VR Education Ltd.

The Climb – Crytek

ADR1FT – Three One Zero

Old Friend – Tyler Hurd

Irrational Exuberance: Prologue – Ben Vance, Wevr

Best Game:

Space Pirate Trainer – I-Illusions (Winner)

Raw Data – Survios

The Gallery – Episode 1: Call of the Starseed – Cloudhead Games

Job Simulator – Owlchemy Labs

The Climb – Crytek

Bullet Train – Epic Games

Best Interaction Design:

Fantastic Contraption – Northway Games & Radial Games (Winner)

Job Simulator – Owlchemy Labs

Waltz of the Wizard – Aldin Dynamics

SoundStage – Logan Olson

Tilt Brush – Google

Rec Room – Against Gravity





Most Innovative:

Tilt Brush – Google (Winner)

Pixel Ripped 1989 – Pixel Ripped Inc

Blocks – Leap Motion

VR Noir: A Day Before the Night – StartVR

The Lab – Valve

FIREBIRD: La Peri (Book 1) – Innerspace VR

Best Original Score:

Pearl – Google Spotlight Stories (Winner)

Zen Zone – Aaron Lemke

Pixel Ripped 1989 – Pixel Ripped Inc

Apollo 11 VR – Immersive VR Education Ltd.

Windlands – Psytec Games Ltd

The Rose And I – Penrose Studios

Best Live Action Experience:

The Argo File – Argos VR (Winner)

Music From Every Angle – m ss ng p eces

Hard World for Small Things – Wevr

Zoolander Infinity – David Rosenbaum, Jaunt

Waves – Wevr

The Presence – Pseudoscience Pictures



Best Sound Design:

Space Pirate Trainer – I-Illusions (Winner)

Zen Zone – Aaron Lemke

Trials on Tatooine: A Cinematic Star Wars Experiment – ILMxLAB

Chronos – Gunfire Games

Reeps One: Does Not Exist – Aurelia Soundworks

Land’s End – ustwo games

Best Educational Experience:

Apollo 11 VR – Immersive VR Education Ltd. (Winner)

Lecture VR – Immersive VR Education Ltd.

Grav|Lab – Gravitational Testing Facility & Observations – Mark Schramm

House of Languages VR – Fox3D

C O S M Worlds Within Worlds – Dynamoid

The Field Trip to Mars – Framestore VR Studio & McCann



Best Student Experience:

Fruit Golf – Coal Car StudioWe Are Alfred – Embodied Labs (Winner)

Shining360 – Claire Hentschker

Lions & Deer – Lean House Media

Chapel – Dean Moro and Lauren Krikorian

My real virtual body: Body Swapping in virtual reality – Alice Chirico

Best Music Experience:

Soundscape – SNAKE Productions (Winner)

Old Friend – Tyler Hurd

Music From Every Angle – m ss ng p eces

Grace – MacInnes Scott

SoundStage – Logan Olson

Apex – Arjan van Meerten

Best Art Direction:

FIREBIRD: La Peri (Book 1) – Innerspace VRKismet – Psyop (Winner)

Chronos – Gunfire Games

Apex – Arjan van Meerten

Cosmic Trip – Funktronic Labs

theBlu: Season 1 – Wevr

Best Narrative Experience:

The Gallery – Episode 1: Call of the Starseed – Cloudhead Games (Winner)

Waves – Wevr

Knives – Adam Cosco

Pearl – Google Spotlight Stories

The Martian VR Experience – Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Innovation Lab, RSA Films, The Virtual Reality Company

Kiya – Emblematic Group



Best Independent Experience:

Space Pirate Trainer – I-Illusions (Winner)

Tactera – E McNeill

SoundStage – Logan Olson

Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope – Croteam

Shape Space VR – Zen Parade – Kevin Mack

Windlands – Psytec Games Ltd

Best User Interface:

Modbox – Alientrap (Winner)

Dota VR Hub – Valve

Envelop VR – Bob Berry

Orian Trail VR – Schell Games

Transport – Wevr

Speech Center VR – Cerevrum Inc



Best Overall:



Tilt Brush – Google (Winner)

Raw Data – Survios

Space Pirate Trainer – I-Illusions

Bullet Train – Epic Games

Modbox – Alientrap

The Lab – Valve



The Founders’ Award:

Dr. Thomas A. Furness III

