VR Lifetime Achievement Award Previous Recipients*
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.