From diderot@hitl.washington.edu Fri Mar 3 15:44:12 1995 Return-Path: Received: from mx4.u.washington.edu by stein2.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.02/UW-NDC Revision: 2.32 ) id AA28189; Fri, 3 Mar 95 15:44:12 -0800 Received: from hitl-new.hitl.washington.edu by mx4.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.02/UW-NDC Revision: 2.31 ) id AA17975; Fri, 3 Mar 95 15:44:11 -0800 Received: by hitl.hitl.washington.edu; id AA08229; Fri, 3 Mar 1995 15:39:52 -0800 Date: Fri, 3 Mar 1995 15:39:52 -0800 X-Sender: diderot@hitl.washington.edu Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: scivw@hitl.washington.edu From: Ben Delaney (by way of diderot@hitl.washington.edu (Toni Emerson)) Subject: OOps! Status: OR i guess i forgot the article... ;-1 Here it is: 1994 CyberEdge Journal Virtual Reality Product of the Year Awards It's CJ Time Again! Every year at this time we announce the nominees for the annual CJ awards: the CyberEdge Journal Virtual Reality Product of the Year Awards. Every year the nominees have shown us the direction and shape of the VR growth curve. This year is no exception. This year we will be bestowing these awards for the fourth time. We are proud that the CJs are the original, and most prestigious awards in our industry. They chart the companies that have really made major contributions to VR, often changing the direction of the industry. The roster of past winners is a who's who of VR: Autodesk, Crystal River Engineering, Division, Fakespace Labs, Kaiser Electro Optics, Legend Quest, NASA JSC, Polhemus, Prairie Virtual Systems, SENSE8, Silicon Graphics, Superscape, Virtual Worlds Entertainment, and Virtuality. One reason the CJs are so respected is the judging process used to determine the winners. The balloting is designed to ensure objectivity and a broad look at the industry. It starts when our senior editorial staff confers, usually by email, and decides on the nominees. Nominations are limited to products or applications that were fielded in the previous year, and were in commercial or public release and use. Research demonstrations, prototypes, and good, unrealized ideas are not eligible. After the list of nominees is assembled, each of our judges gets a CJ ballot. This year, 30 judges are participating in the voting, which is done as a two-stage Delphi Poll. The first ballots are returned to our secret CJ tabulation center, where deep underneath the Rocky Mountains, hundreds of decertified accountants spend weeks tabulating the ballots. There, each nominee's votes are recorded. Then the Second Round Ballots are distributed. On them, each product that received at least one vote is listed, along with the number of first-round votes it got. The judges then vote a second time, and the top vote-getters in each of the three categories are the CJ winners. This method promotes consensus and objectivity. This year we have the longest list of nominees ever. Interestingly, we have many more applications than ever before, and more applications than software for the first time. I think this indicates the direction of the industry; 1994 was not a year for major software innovation, but can be seen as the year when VR applications started to emerge in force. We have added a new category to the awards this year. Many of the good VR systems are developed for artistic or one-time uses. These are not really commercial products, but are more than mere demos, since often thousands of people use them. To properly recognize this type of work, and to differentiate it fairly from true commercial applications, we will make awards in the new category, Art and Events, for the first time this year. The 1994 CJ awards will be presented at the VRAIS conference, at a gala receptions on the evening of Sunday, March 12, at 6PM. If you are going to VRAIS (and you should, it was our top-ranked conference in 1993.) be sure to leave time to come celebrate the 1994 CyberEdge Journal Virtual Reality Product of the Year Awards with our winners. The 1994 CJ contenders Here are the finalists for the 1994 CJs. Each and every one is a product of merit. Good luck to all the people and companies who are responsible for their development. Applications: Aladdin Adventure game, Immersive LBE Disney Imagineering Cell Biology Biology teaching experience Computer Museum/Eben Gray Cue View Pool game, Immersive LBE Kaiser Electro Optics Eagle's Nest Scuba training Virtual S Fortress of Historical walk Boston Museum Buhen through of Fine Arts/William Riseman Gulfstream V Sales tool Gulfstream/ Cabin Division Hanford Waste Nuclear waste Mngt management training Westinghouse/ Bristlecone Environmental Technology Laproscopic Surgical Cine Med Surgical simulation/training Simulator Mag Ball Hockey-like, GreyStone multi-player, immersive LBE Motorola Mfg. Assembly line Motorola/Adams Training worker training Consulting ORI Wheelchair Electric wheelchair Oregon Research Trainer operator training Institute/Dean for children Inman Seattle Urban planning Port of Seattle/ Waterfront system in Cave Worldesign Planning environment The Real McCoy Marketing/Game Hiram system Walker/Sarcos & Casselman/Horizon Entertainment/ GreyStone Virtual Brewery Tour/learning Sapporo/ experience Telepresence Research/Fakespace Virtual Phobia treatment Ralph Lamson, Psychotherapy Kaiser Medical Center Art & Events Cyber Wedding Marriage in Cybermind/ Cyberspace Sense8/KEO Cyberhead... Art/Medical Patrice experience Caire/SRI Detour Art/Personal Rita history, in CAVE Addison/EVL Worlds 1& 2 Artistic Jenny Holzer/ environments Sense8/Intel Software: Genesis WorldToolKit Virtual Research front end Reality Lab Rendering engine RenderMorphics Reality+ WorldToolKit Integra front end Australia RenderWare Rendering engine Criterion Software WalkThrough Modeling & Virtus Pro 2.0 Walkthrough on Mac/PC Hardware: 100 VPX - High-end image Division PixelPlanes generator subsystem 5th Glove Low-cost input glove 5DT Acoustetron II Improved, high-end Crystal River spatialized sound Engineering subsystem Alphatron Low-cost Crystal River spatialized sound Engineering system for PCs CrystalEyes PC Low-cost LCD StereoGraphics glasses CyberEye Mid-cost HMD General Reality Cybermaxx Low-cost HMD VictorMaxx CyberWand Low-cost 3D InWorld VR controller dVisor Mid-cost, wide Division FOV HMD I-Glasses Low-cost HMD Virtual I/O Immersion Probe 3D digitizer Immersion Interactor Low-cost haptic Aura feedback vest Systems Long Ranger Extended range Polhemus tracking system Mercury LBE entertainment GreyStone system MRG4 Rugged, mid- Liquid Image cost HMD Pixel Planes 6 High-end image Division generator subsystem Snapshot Portable device for Crystal River recording HRTFs Engineering for use with spatialized sound system VFX1 Low-cost HMD Forte Virtual Odyssey LBE entertainment Kaiser Electro system Optics Virtuality 2000 2nd generation Virtuality LBE entertainment system VR Bike Exercise Tectrix equipment w/ VR VR4 Rugged, mid- Virtual Research cost HMD Those are the 1994 CJ Nominees. Congratulations to all of the people involved! We'll see you at VRAIS when we open the envelopes with the winner's names in them. Page 3 of 1