Virtual Reality takes users to other worlds, on wild adventures, on the front lines of news pieces and allows them to consider the lives and points of views of other cultures, providing an enhanced perspective unlike any other they may have yet experienced.

WINNERS UPDATE

Congrats to branded entertainment Cinematic or Pre-Rendered Virtual Reality Webby Winner Discovery VR & Webby People’s Voice Winner Stella Artois: Buy A Lady A Drink!

Congrats to The Webby & Webby People’s Voice Winner in general film Cinematic or Pre-Rendered Virtual Reality, Orchestra VR!

Congrats to general film Gaming, Interactive, or Real-Time Webby Winner Way to Go & Webby People’s Voice Winner The Unknown Photographer!

Congrats to branded entertainment Gaming, Interactive, or Real-Time Webby Winner Cardboard Crash VR & Webby People’s Voice Winner House on Hallow Hill!

These branded entertainment Nominees in Cinematic or Pre-Rendered virtual reality use groundbreaking technology to transport users into tropical jungles, to a tight-rope walk across skyscrapers and even into fantastic animated worlds. Likewise, for charities, VR affords a unique gateway to share their message, putting the user at the heart of the matter.

• Stella Artois: Buy A Lady A Drink by Unit 9
• Bode’s Echo: A Virtual Reality Experience by Firstborn
• Toms Virtual Giving Trip by VRSE.Works
• Discovery VR by Discovery Communications
• Can You Walk The Walk? Virtual Reality Experience by Create Advertising

Are you not entertained? Well, get ready: These branded entertainment Nominated works in Gaming, Interactive, or Real-Time virtual reality allow users to kick it with Neymar Jr., go horseback riding, explore (and shop) in a mansion, crash-test a cardboard car & test your tolerance for fear.

• William Hill: Get in the Race by Unit9
• The Neymar Jr. Effect by VRSE.Works
• Cardboard Crash VR for Google Cardboard by National Film Board of Canada
• Insidious Chapter 3 – Into The Further by Focus Features/Secret Location
• House on Hallow Hill by Target Creative

These general film Nominees in Cinematic or Pre-Rendered virtual reality in featuring work from The New York Times, L.A. Philharmonic, Salvador Dalí & ABC News bring journalism and the arts to a whole new, more in-depth level.

• Take Flight by VRSE.Works
• Orchestra VR by Los Angeles Philharmonic Association/Secret Location
• Dreams of Dalí by Goodby Silverstein & Partners
• ABC News VR: Inside Syria by ABC News
• The Displaced by The New York Times

Games, campus tours, or a seat at a presidential debate: CNN, Truffle Pig, National Film Board of Canada & Regis University—the multiplicity of possibilities is nearly endless for these general film Nominees in Gaming, Interactive, or Real-Time virtual reality.

• CNN & VR at the Democratic Debate by CNN
• Truffle Pig – An Oculus Experience by Gentleman Scholar
• Way to Go by National Film Board of Canada
• Regis Virtual Reality Tour by Primacy
• The Unknown Photographer by National Film Board of Canada

For our first class of Nominees in Virtual Reality, we are proud to honor beautiful work that is wonderfully animated, with gorgeous graphics, mechanics and sensory immersion. Vote for your favorites to win a Webby at pv.webbyawards.com.

See all The Webby People’s Voice Winners here. You can watch all the highlights from the 20th Annual Webby Awards now! Don’t forget, the Extended Entry Deadline is January 27th, 2017—Enter today!