-------------------------- CALL FOR NOMINATIONS IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Community (VGTC) VR 2023 Awards Extended Deadline: ***January 27, 2023*** -------------------------- Please take a moment to consider nominating one or more individuals (or yourself) for the 2023 IEEE VGTC VR Awards, to be presented at the 2023 IEEE VR conference, March 25-29, 2023. The short nomination form and relevant information is here: https://ieeevr.org/2023/awards/vgtc/ <https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/22OxfQODChPKmpxlT6blY56iCosZDBbYNEEzuyn3AdNt2FtarhQGV-wZHA4BY_JSHppJ3UCuhyNTbfUAu3ibsw20GsvcL0dguXGaaOu4MHnNKXy_FGM8CpYf3_pnYR6ozCsdmtQwiINgcFtCQAshnaqmTXGh1350PNUalhOPs91LeHU3Ow_R-4OoKIKfmewM>. For reference -- and inspiration :) -- the winners from previous years are listed below. Henry Fuchs Chair of IEEE VGTC VR Awards Program vgtc-vr-awards@vgtc.org === Outstanding Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention === 2016 Bireswar Laha, Merwan Achibet 2017 Yuta Itoh 2018 Richard Skarbez 2019 James Baumeister 2020 Folker Wientapper 2021 Javad Fotouhi 2022 Katharina Krösl === Outstanding Dissertation Award === 2016 Ravish Mehra 2017 Andrew Maimone, Alexander Kulik 2018 Sebastian Friston 2019 Qi Sun 2020 Misha Sra 2021 Mayra Barrera Machuca 2022 Nami Ogawa === Significant New Researcher Award === 2022 Mar Gonzalez-Franco === Technical Achievement Award === 2005 Mark Bolas 2006 Kay Stanney 2007 Carolina Cruz-Neira, Tom DeFanti, Dan Sandin 2008 Bernd Fröhlich 2009 Hirokazu Kato 2010 Ming C. Lin 2012 Dieter Schmalstieg 2013 Mark Billinghurst 2014 Doug Bowman 2015 Brendan Iribe, Michael Antonov, Palmer Luckey 2016 Anthony Steed 2017 Michael Zyda 2018 Gregory F. Welch 2019 Anatole Lécuyer 2020 Jeremy Bailenson 2021 David P. Luebke 2022 Kiyoshi Kiyokawa === Career/Lifetime Achievement Award === 2005 Mel Slater 2006 Larry Hodges 2007 Susumu Tachi 2008 Bowen Loftin 2009 Jaron Lanier 2010 Fred Brooks 2012 Lawrence J. Rosenblum 2013 Henry Fuchs 2014 Steven K. Feiner 2015 Michitaka Hirose 2016 Thomas A. Furness III 2017 Grigore Burdea 2018 Mark Bolas 2019 Mark Billinghurst 2020 Victoria Interrante 2021 Mary C. Whitton 2022 Gudrun Klinker === Service Award === 2022 Kiyoshi Kiyokawa === VR Academy: 2022 Inductees (Inaugural Class) === Michael Abrash Kurt Akeley Michael Antonov Ron Azuma Jeremy Bailenson Mark Billinghurst Mark Bolas Doug A. Bowman Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. Grigore Burdea Sabine Coquillart Carolina Cruz-Neira Thomas A. DeFanti Steven K. Feiner Scott Fisher Bernd Fröhlich Henry Fuchs Thomas A. Furness III Michitaka Hirose Larry F. Hodges Victoria Interrante Brendan Iribe Hirokazu Kato Kiyoshi Kiyokawa Gudrun Klinker Myron Krueger Jaron Lanier Brenda Laurel Anatole Lécuyer Ming C. Lin Bowen Loftin Benjamin Lok Palmer Luckey David P. Luebke Betty Mohler Qunsheng Peng Ramesh Raskar Jannick Rolland Lawrence J. Rosenblum Daniel Sandin Dieter Schmalstieg Mel Slater Kay Stanney Anthony Steed Ivan Sutherland Susumu Tachi Gregory F. Welch Mary C. Whitton Michael Zyda --- [image: beacon]