VR Technical Achievement Award Previous Recipients
2026
Stefania Serafin
Aalborg University, Copenhagen, and Copenhagen Hearing and Balance Center, Rigshospitalet
2025
Ronald Azuma
Formerly of Intel Labs, Nokia Research Center, and Hughes Research Labs, USA
2024
Gordon Wetzstein
Stanford University, USA
2023
Frank Steinicke
Universität Hamburg, Germany
2022
Kiyoshi Kiyokawa
Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
2021
David P. Luebke
NVIDIA
2020
Jeremy Bailenson
Stanford University, USA
2019
Anatole Lécuyer
INRIA, Rennes, France
2018
Gregory F. Welch
University of Central Florida, USA
2017
Michael Zyda
University of Southern California, USA
2016
Anthony Steed
University College London, UK
2015
Brendan Iribe, Michael Antonov, Palmer Luckey
Oculus
2014
Doug Bowman
Virginia Tech, USA
2013
Mark Billinghurst
University of Canterbury, New Zealand
2012
Dieter Schmalstieg
Graz University of Technology, Austria
2010
Ming C. Lin
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
2009
Hirokazu Kato
Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
2008
Bernd Fröhlich
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany
2007
- Cruz-Neira
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA - DeFanti
University of California San Diego, USA - Sandin
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
2006
Kay Stanney
University of Central Florida, USA
2005
Mark Bolas
University of Southern California, USA