VR Lifetime Achievement Award Previous Recipients*

2026

Carolina Cruz-Neira
University of Central Florida, USA

2025

Paul Milgram
University of Toronto (Emeritus), Canada

2024

Hiroo Iwata
University of Tsukuba (retired)
Professor, Musashino University (2023—present)

2023

Albert “Skip” Rizzo
University of Southern California, USA

2022

Gudrun Klinker
Technical University of Munich, Germany

2021

Mary C. Whitton
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

2020

Victoria Interrante
University of Minnesota, USA

2019

Mark Billinghurst
University of South Australia in Adelaide, Australia

2018

Mark Bolas
Microsoft

2017

Grigore Burdea
State University of New Jersey, USA

2016

Thomas A. Furness III
University of Washington, Seattle, USA

2015

Michitaka Hirose
University of Tokyo, Japan

2014

Steven K. Feiner
Columbia University, USA

2013

Henry Fuchs
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

2012

Lawrence J. Rosenblum
Naval Research Laboratory, USA

2010

Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

2009

Jaron Lanier
Microsoft and University of California Berkeley, USA

2008

Bowen Loftin
Texas A&M University, USA

2007

Susumu Tachi
University of Tokyo, Japan

2006

Larry F. Hodges
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

2005

Mel Slater
University College London, UK

*Prior to 2022, the Lifetime Achievement Award was known as the Career Award.