Last Thursday, January 13th, 2022, our CEO Luis Villarejo was one of the guests at AWE Nite NYC on the occasion of being one of the winners in the Auggie Awards 2021 (Best Healthcare VR Solution).
The annual Auggie Awards are the most recognized in the AR & VR industry since 2010. They show the best of the best in Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality. The 2021 winners were presented at the Auggie Awards Ceremony, which took place on November 10th in Santa Clara, California.
AWE NITES
AWE Nites is a place for developers, creators, investors, founders, academics, and curious people to gather locally (or online) on an ongoing basis to help advance the Augmented Reality (AR) ecosystem. AWE currently organizes meetings in cities like New York, San Francisco, Berlin, Chicago, Tel Aviv, Vancouver, Los Angeles, Barcelona, Shanghai, Miami, etc.
AWE NITE NYC
You can see the full interview here.
The last AWE Nite NYC edition was dedicated to Auggie Awards 2021 winners. The presenter was Ori Inbar, AWE and Super Ventures co-founder, and among the guests were:
1) Luis Villarejo – Best Healthcare and Wellness Solution – Immersium Studio
2) Margherita Landi – Best Art – Peaceful Places
3) Justin Quimby – Best Consumer App – Google Maps Live View
The show kicked off with the latest XR news such as the metaverse, which will be booming in 2022, and the investments that companies like Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Google, Nvidia, etc. are doing on it. There was also talk of what may be the first Apple Headset and the development that many companies are doing in smartglasses. The use of Haptics, such as smart shirts or tactile gloves, is also growing. Another interesting device is the Unlink VR, to record VR without cables, or the Shiftall Mutalk, to filter the sound.
Luis explained what Immersium Studio is and that we are dedicated, among other things, to making immersive experiences with interactive 360º video. Immersium Studio started 4 years ago as a Universitat Oberta de Catalunya spinoff. We have a multidisciplinary team to create this type of experience, and we have worked with United Nations, Donation and Transplantation Institute (DTI), European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), etc.
He explained some of the immersive experiences that we have designed and briefly explained what the VR ICU Upskilling for Health Professionals experience consists of, with which we have won the 2021 Auggie Award for the best health solution.
The VR ICU Upskilling for Health Professionals project is an immersive training in 360 (Virtual Reality), starring real doctors and nurses. It provides knowledge and tools to health professionals who do not usually work in Intensive Care Units (ICU), and trains them to provide extra support in this unit during the COVID-19 pandemic, strengthening ICUs in times of need. It has already trained more than 20,000 healthcare professionals across Europe.
You can read more information about the 2021 Auggie Award 2021 here and about this project here.
Ori Inbar also interviewed Margherita Landi, from Peaceful Places, who won the 2021 Auggie Award in the Best Art category, and Justin Quimby, from Google Maps Live View, who won the 2021 Auggie Award in the Best Consumer App category.
At Immersium Studio we are very proud to have won the most important Virtual Reality award granted by the Industry, thanks to our high quality immersive experiences competing with high level companies such as Google Maps Live View (Augmented Reality in Google Maps).
