Laval Virtual Awards 2021- the winners
This year’s annual event of the year has once again Laval Virtual come to a successful end. On July 8th, the 23rd Laval Virtual Awards ceremony was held during the annual exhibition. 12 virtual reality and augmented reality projects were awarded. The awards were given in the 8 general categories and also for 4 projects from the ReVolution competitions. Each year, the Laval Virtual Awards recognize the best immersive projects of the year.
8 prizes awarded in the general categories
Industry – SenseGlove Nova (SenseGlove)
SenseGlove Nova is a new version of haptic force-feedback gloves designed for professional VR training purposes. These gloves feature an updated flexible form-factor in combination with unparalleled haptic technologies and smooth hand tracking that enables users to feel shapes, textures, stiffness, impacts and resistance in VR. Companies can upscale all kinds of VR training programs, such as handling hazardous materials, carrying out complex tasks with multiple tools, learning to design and test physical prototypes.
Entertainment & Medias – Sensorium Galaxy (Sensorium)
Sensorium Galaxy — a next-generation social VR platform that connects people through world-class VR entertainment. Sensorium Galaxy leverages state-of-the-art blockchain technologies to make the future of content distribution safe for both the public and artists. The technology was first introduced to the public in 2019 at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles. Sensorium expects to attract over 1,8 million users by the end of 2022.
Education & Learning Content – Neoma Virtual Campus (Neoma Business School)
NEOMA Business School was the first European business school to strongly react to the COVID crisis by launching an online virtual campus for its students, professors and staffs. The project aims to provide a place where studying, teaching, meeting and chatting can happen again, without the need to move to our brick-and-mortar campuses. The tool they have chosen provides many features that enables us to stick as much as possible to the reality of a business school.
Healthcare – VirtySens (VirtySens)
VirtySens offers a multi-sensory and multi-directional immersive experience. The experience is accessible to a particular public: children, young adults, adults, and seniors, handicapped or immobilised in a hospital room or medical establishment. There are many potential uses for the device we have developed: stress reduction and opening up to new sensory experiences for patients suffering from disabilities, re-education for hospitalised children, pre-or post-medical relaxation, relaxation, and reconnection with their surroundings for senior citizens, etc.
Discover all the Award Winners
14 awards given during the ceremony
A total of 14 awards were given out during the prestigious Laval Virtual Awards ceremony, hosted by Benjamin de Wit. In addition to the 8 awards in the general categories and the 4 awards in the ReVolution competitions, two others were awarded: the Grand Prix and the IVRC award.
The Grand Prize was awarded to VirtySens, which aims to take people on a journey through a multisensory experience in virtual reality. The IVRC prize consists of highlighting a student project from the ReVolution #Students – Demo selection. This project is then invited to go to Japan to attend the IVRC, the International Virtual Reality Contest. This year, the winning project is “Rebirth 2.0” from Arts et Métiers: an immersive application to help people affected by COVID-19 who have respiratory problems, with an interactive prevention part in the virtual world.
