VR Technical Achievement Award Previous Recipients

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