The Virtual Reality Festival will be holding its Extreme Virtual Reality Challenge event in Las Vegas starting next Thursday, January 5, but you still three days to vote for your favorite virtual reality movies, video games, and ads.
And even if you don’t vote, this is a great time to catch up on the nominees in all the categories.
Nominees for Best Live Action Narrative Film
- Ashes
- Bare Thoughts
- Dead Head
- Escape The Living Dead
- Etienne
- First Person ep 4: Las Vegas
- Great Performers
- GoPro ‘Fowl Seas’
- Ninja 360° ATTACK
- No Good Deed
- No Other Like You
- Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension 360
- Remember
- STAR WARS – HUNTING OF THE FALLEN 360 VR
- The Room
- VR Noir: A day Before The Night
- War Knows No Nation
Nominees for Best Live Action Music Video
- Björk – Stonemilker
- Catch on Fire 360
- Et Moi
- Fuera
- Hillsong Relentless Remix 360
- Megadeath – Poisonous Shadows
- Mind Enterprises – Chapita
- Mountain At My Gates – FOALS
- Naive New Beaters – Heal Tomorrow
- One Republic – Kids
- Patsy’s Rats: Burnin’ Honey
- Say Lou Lou – Blue On Blue
- Our Shanghai
- The Weeknd VR – The Hills Remix by EMINEM
- This Summer
- Umphrey’s McGee: Puppet String 360° VR
- Red Foo Lights Out
Nominees for Best Commercial or Branded Entertainment
- Blair Witch Project VR Trailer
- Enter The Mind of Jack
- Immersive Combat
- Red Roof Inn
- Ride Glen Helen Raceway with Corry Weller
- The Baja Experience
- Trejo’s Tacos
- Clash of Clans 360
- Pete’s Dragon : Magic in the Woods
- StarWars Rogue One VR 360 Experience
- DOCTOR STRANGE 360 – Google Tilt brush – Danny Bittman
- The Ring VR Experience
- The Jungle Book 360° Video
- Cupcake Flavored Oreo Cookies
- Tymbark Owoce Świata – 80 wzorów!
- The Conjuring 2 – Experience Enfield VR
- Shinola 360 Factory Tour with Luke Wilson
Nominees for Best Live Action Documentary Links
- A History Of Cuban Dance
- Anti-terror drill in Shanghai stereo VR
- Aftershock: Nepal’s untold water story
- Badlands
- California Platform Reefs
- Chernobyl 30 Years Later
- Cut-Off VR
- Exploring the Seventh Continent
- Geologist & Glaciologist Colin Souness at Neko Harbor
- Glow Worms VR
- Mindscapes
- Palm Oil Plantation Tour
- Shepherd`s
- Smile More: The Journey Of A Song
- Swept Under the Waves
- Swim with wild dolphins in #360VirtualReality
- The Click Effect
- The Mini mantas of Maria
- The Vodou Healer
- The VR Experience of Gymkhana 9
- Through the Ages: President Obama Celebrates America’s National Parks
- Tomorrow
- Valen’s Reef
- Warbird Veterans
Nominees for Best Live Action Sports Project
- BMX Olympic Gold Medal Virtual Reality Experienceâ„¢ Starring Connor Fields
- Circle Rules Football
- Follow My Lead: The Story of the 2016 NBA Finals
- FordVR
- FPV : 360 Drone Racing
- Get Barreled in Tahiti with Samsung Gear VR
- Lamborghini Huracán LP 580-2 Experience
- Key to the City
- Pilot Flying J Battle at Bristol
- Run Rockets
- WRC 360 Video Onboard Camera
- Skydiving with GoPro Bombsquad
- Run The NYC Marathon In Virtual Reality
- Walk The Tight Rope
Nominees for Best Live Action Project For Television
- Cherry Creek EXTREME Class 5 PLUS White Water Rafting
- Mr Robot VR Experience
- Project Orpheus VR
- Provoke Horror VR
- Raven
- Rock The Park: Yosemite Falls
Nominees for Best Live Action Educational Project
- Astronaut Training at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab
- Google Arts & Culture
- Medical VR – Open Hernia Operation
- Nearpod VR
- Penguinologist Dr. Tom Hart talks Gentoo Penguins and their Feeding Habits
- Rapid Fire
- SMUX Educational Tour
- ThingLink
- WoofbertVR
Nominees for Best Live Action Non Profit or Social Cause
- Bruce and Macs take a dump
- Cybernetic Rift of the Dead
- Four Walls
- Great Barrier Reef 360 Series
- Mannahatta VR
- Serve the future
- This is the Ocean
- Whispers of the South Border
Nominees for Best Experimental VR Film Links
- 010 – Experimental VR Film
- Haunted Town with Creepers and Clowns at the Bonnie Springs Ranch
- KISMET
- WarHorse
- The Pull VR
- Alien Help
- Friday the 13th 360
- Bobs Burgers Dancin’
- The Cryogenian
Nominees for Best Live Action Travel Film or Experience
- 360 Experience: A Night at the Symphony
- Connections – New York
- Connections – West Coast
- Dolphin encounter on the Great Barrier Reef
- Flickr VR
- GORONGOSA PARK: Rebirth of Paradise VR
- Growth of Singapore
- Hover over NYC
- Infinite Scuba #VR – Dive with Dr. Sylvia Earle
- London 360 Time-Lapse from St Paul’s Cathedral
- Machu Picchu
- Singing Stones VR
- Sites in VR
- Stavroz talks Ibiza
- Tampa Florida in 360
- The Times Square Experience Trailer
- Virtual guided tour of Paris : Eiffel tower District
- Visit Houston
- Visit the Faroe Islands
- VR Cities
- Welcome to Portland! 360
Nominees for Best VR Real Estate Experience
Nominees for Best Animated Narrative Film
- 6×9
- ABE VR
- Allumette
- CRY OUT: THE LONELY WHALE VR EXPERIECE
- Diggers
- Dirrogate
- Goosebumps VR
- Helios
- Henry
- Invasion
- Longing for Wilderness
- Memos of from Hell
- S.E.N.S VR
- Storybox
- theBlu
- The Impossible Travel Agency
- The Pull
- The Rose and I
- The starry night Stereo VR experience
- Volt: Chain City
Nominees for Best Animated Music Video
- Bohemian Rhapsody Experience
- Computer Dreams with VRTuliz0r
- Magma Chamber 360 VR
- NADAR
- Not Above That
- Prismatic
- Surge
- Squarepusher – Stor Eiglass VR
Nominees for Best Animated Education Project Links
- Cerevrum Game
- Defying The Nazis VR
- Discovery VR
- Eon Reality
- Expeditions
- Great White Sharks
- Lecture VR
- Notes On Blindness VR
- Orion Trail VR
- Restore Coral
- Science 360 Oculus Build
- Share The Science: Climate Change VR
- Speech Center VR
- Titans of Space® Cardboard VR
- The Body VR
- Unimersiv
- View-Master® Wildlife
- Virtual Reality Math
- VR Space
Nominees for Best Game for Cardboard
- BAMF VR
- BattleZ VRÂ (Also available for iPhone.)
- Chair In A Room
- Galaxy VR
- Hardcore
- InMind VRÂ (Also available for iPhone.)
- Minos Starfighter VRÂ (Also available for iPhone.)
- Need for Jump
- Proton Pulse Google Cardboard (Also available for iPhone.)
- Star Wars  (Also available for iPhone.)
- VizioFly Rollercoaster
- VR Cave
- Wizard Academy VR Cardboard (Also available for iPhone.)
Nominees for Best Game for Gear VR
- Affected: The Manor
- AltspaceVRÂ (Also available for Android.)
- Anshar Wars 2
- Dark Days
- Dreadhalls
- EVE: Gunjack (Also available for Daydream as Gunjack 2:End of Shift.)
- Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (Also available for Daydream.)
- Land’s End
- Sisters: A Mobile Ghost Story (Also available for Android and iPhones.)
- Smash Hit
- Soundscape
- Tactera
- Wands (Also available for Daydream.)
Nominees for Best Game for Tethered Headsets
- A-10 VR
- Accounting
- Ace Banana
- AirMech: Command
- Anyland
- Battlezone
- Batmanâ„¢: Arkham VR
- Call Of Duty®: Infinite Warfare Jackal Assault VR Experience
- Damaged Core
- Defense Grid 2
- Destinations
- Dragonflight
- Edge of Nowhere
- Ghost Town Mine Ride & Shootin’ Gallery
- Herobound: Spirit Champion
- How We Soar
- Irrational Exuberance: Prologue
- Kittypocalypse
- Lazerbait
- NBA 2KVR Experience
- O! My Genesis VR : Planet Dagoh
- Pinball FX2 VR: The Walking Dead
- Pool Nation VR
- Project Cars
- Quanero VR
- Rec Room
- Soundstage
- Space Pirate Trainer
- Tethered Divine Edition
- The Climb
- The Night Cafe: A VR Tribute to Vincent Van Gogh
- Tilt Brush
- Vanishing Realms: Rite of Steel
- VirZOOM Arcade
- Vr The Diner Duo
- Waltz of the Wizard
- Water Bears VR
- Windlands
- Hypersuit
Hypergrid Business editor and publisher Maria Korolov is a science fiction novelist. During the day, Maria Korolov is an award-winning freelance technology journalist who covers artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and enterprise virtual reality. See her Amazon author page here and follow her on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn, and check out her latest videos on the Maria Korolov YouTube channel. Email her at maria@hypergridbusiness.com. Her first virtual world novella, Krim Times, made the Amazon best-seller list in its category. Her second novella, The Lost King of Krim, is out now. She is also the publisher of MetaStellar, a new online magazine of speculative fiction.
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