The IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Academy
The Virtual Reality Academy is a prestigious academy that highlights the accomplishments of the leaders in the field. Since awards are limited in number, the field should recognize significant contributions and the academy is a mechanism for recognizing such contributions. The goal is to recognize those in the field who exceed or augment the criteria of existing VGTC awards.
Nominations can be made here: nomination form.
General contact:
Mary C. Whitton, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chair, IEEE VGTC VR Awards Program
vgtc-vr-awards@vgtc.org
2024 Inductees
- Hiroo Iwata
- Yoshifumi Kitamura
- Robert W. Lindeman
- Dinesh Manocha
- J. Edward Swan II
- Gordon Wetzstein
- Tobias Höllerer
- Hong Hua
- Wolfgang Stuerzlinger
- Hideyuki Tamura
- Blair MacIntyre
- Albert “Skip” Rizzo
- Frank Steinicke
- Ivan Sutherland
- Mel Slater
- Mark Bolas
- Larry F. Hodges
- Kay Stanney
- Susumu Tachi
- Carolina Cruz-Neira
- Thomas A. DeFanti
- Daniel Sandin
- Bowen Loftin
- Bernd Fröhlich
- Jaron Lanier
- Hirokazu Kato
- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
- Ming C. Lin
- Lawrence J. Rosenblum
- Dieter Schmalstieg
- Henry Fuchs
- Mark Billinghurst
- Steven K. Feiner
- Doug A. Bowman
- Michitaka Hirose
- Brendan Iribe
- Michael Antonov
- Palmer Luckey
- Thomas A. Furness III
- Anthony Steed
- Grigore Burdea
- Michael Zyda
- Gregory F. Welch
- Anatole Lécuyer
- Victoria Interrante
- Jeremy Bailenson
- Mary C. Whitton
- David P. Luebke
- Gudrun Klinker
- Kiyoshi Kiyokawa
- Michael Abrash
- Kurt Akeley
- Ron Azuma
- Sabine Coquillart
- Scott Fisher
- Myron Krueger
- Brenda Laurel
- Benjamin Lok
- Betty Mohler
- Qunsheng Peng
- Ramesh Raskar
- Jannick Rolland