[News Release] IVRC2021LEAP STAGE Award winners announcement

November 8, 2021

Interverse Virtual Reality Challenge (Prof. Masahiko Inami, IVRC Executive Committee Chair) has been an annual contest that assesses the innovation, technical challenges, and impact of interactive products designed and created by students since 1993.
In this year, we received 83 challenges.
In LEAP STAGE, 27 selected challenges were demonstrated and the jury commitee made decision on November 6, 2021.
GrandPrix, VRSJ Award, Laval Virtual Prize, VRST Prize, Jude’s Special Award, Kawakami Memorial Award, and Awards by Guest Juries, Daito Manabe Award, Aimi Sekiguchi Award, Nanako Ishido Award, WAKUWAKU Award, and Junichirou Koyama Award were given to the winners as follows.

GrandPrix

Challenge title: Everyone can Headspin
Team: Headspin enthusiasts
Affiliation: Keio University

Virtual Reality Society of Japan Award (2nd Place)

Challenge title : mirror ⇄ ɿoɿɿim
Team: M.W.I
Affiliation: Kwansei Gakuin University

Daito Manabe Award

Challenge title: The Human Mountainification Project
Team: Human Mountainification Committee
Affiliation: Kyoto Sangyo University

Aimi Sekiguchi Award

Challenge title: Rebirth-20
Team: Arts et Métiers Institute of Technology
* Invited from Laval Virtual

Nanako Ishido Award

Challenge title: Destroy the stress !
Team: The Party to Protect Citizens from Stress
Affiliation: The University of Electro-Communications

WAKUWAKU Award

Challenge title: wo-kinngudettozann
Team: masusususunotinmyoudekimyounasyatikudmo
Affiliation: Matsumoto Technical High School

Junichirou Koyama Award

Challenge title: Operator with shoulders
Team: Shoulder operation
Affiliation: The University of Electro-Communications

Laval Virtual Prize

Challenge title: The Human Mountainification Project
Team: Human Mountainification Committee
Affiliation: Kyoto Sangyo University

VRST Prize

Challenge title: Everyone can Headspin
Team: Headspin enthusiasts
Affiliation: Keio University

Kawakami Memorial Award

Challenge title: Can HUMAN Be Both a Solid and a Liquid?
Team: Ittan-momen
Affiliation: Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Judge’s Special Award

Challenge title: NagiSanpo
Team: SeasideWalker
Affiliation: Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Contact
IVRC Executive Committee
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