The 2015 Proto Awards are just around the corner and the VRF, the organization running the show, has announced the nominees. Comedian Jonah Ray has been selected as the host of the award ceremony.
Following an impressively executed inaugural award show in 2014, the Proto Awards heads into its second year with Jonah Ray hosting the award ceremony which will be held on September 22nd in Hollywood alongside the Oculus Connect conference.
The Virtual Reality Foundation, the organization behind the Protos and VRLA, have announced 70 nominations across 14 categories for this year’s ceremony:
Best GUI
Skyworld – Vertigo Games
VRChat
VRMT: VR Worldbuilder – Defective Studios
Virtual Desktop – Guy Godin
World of Comenius – Tomáš “Frooxius” Mariančík
Best Art Direction
The Gallery: Emberstone Teaser – Cloudhead Games
Lucky’s Tale – Playful, Inc.
Surge – Arjan van Meerten
Technolust – Iris VR
theBlu: Encounter – WEVR
Best Live Action Experience
Bjork- ‘Stonemilker’ – VRSE
Inside The Box of Kurios – Felix & Paul Studios
Insurgent Shatter Reality GearVR – Kite & Lightning
Vrideo
Wild – The Experience
Best Interaction Design
Crystal Rift – Psytec Games
The Gallery: Emberstone Teaser – Cloudhead Games
I Expect You To Die – Schell Games
Job Simulator – Owlchemy Labs
World of Comenius – Tomáš “Frooxius” Mariančík
Best Social Experience
Convrge – Shawn Whiting
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes – Steel Crate Games
SteamCrew VR – Aurelien Kerbeci
VRChat
Vice News VR: Millions March – VRSE
Best Score
Adult Swim Presents: The Virtual Brainload – Adult Swim/WEVR
Lunadroid 237 HD – Unello Design
Playhead – Innerspace VR
Surge – Arjan van Meerten
Welcome to Oculus – Trey Davis
Best Sound Design
Insurgent Shatter Reality GearVR – Kite & Lightning
Playhead – Innerspace VR
Tactera – E McNeill
Technolust – Iris VR
theBlu: Encounter – WEVR
Best Gameplay
I Expect You To Die – Schell Games
Job Simulator – Owlchemy Labs
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes – Steel Crate Games
Lucky’s Tale – Playful, Inc.
Tactera – E McNeill
Best Educational Experience
Clouds Over Sidra – VRSE
Neos: The Universe – NeosVR
Rapid Fire: A brief history of flight – Studio Transcendent
World of Comenius – Tomáš “Frooxius” Mariančík
theBlu VR – WEVR
Best Mobile Experience
The Fifth Sleep – Short – Innerspace VR
Insurgent Shatter Reality GearVR – Kite & Lightning
Neos: The Universe – NeosVR
SteamCrew VR – Aurelien Kerbeci
theBlu VR – WEVR
Best Student Experience
ElemenTerra – Max Pittsley
Ghosts Of Hogwarts – Gregoire Davenas
Lollihop – Samuli Jääskeläinen
Nighttime Terror – Daniel Pots
Virtual Cell Classroom – Emily Donald
Best Independent Experience
Job Simulator – Owlchemy Labs
Tactera – E McNeill
Technolust: Thought Crimes – Iris VR
Virtual Desktop – Guy Godin
Vox Machinae – Space Bullet Dynamics Corporation
Most Transportive
Convrge – Shawn Whiting
D.M.Z: Memories of a no man’s land – Innerspace VR
The Gallery: Emberstone Teaser – Cloudhead Games
I Expect You To Die – Schell Games
Technolust – Iris VR
A highlight reel of the 2014 Proto Awards gives a brief glimpse of what transpired at last year’s ceremony, which was received as surprisingly mature and well orchestrated given the still nascent status of the VR industry. The organizers say that this year’s event will be bigger and better.
Disclosure: Ben Lang serves as a volunteer on the Virtual Reality Foundation’s Board of Governors who are responsible for selecting Proto Awards nominees.