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Tilt Brush is overall winner in 2016 Proto Awards
This game made by Google is this year’s overall virtual reality overall winner with it’s immersive and unique sandbox concept that people of all age enjoys.

This year’s Proto Awards aims to highlight and award the best studios and games in the virtual reality industry having Tilt Brush as the overall winner. This game was developed by Google which gives creative people a chance to create 3D works of art using the HTC Vive. Since its launch, Tilt Brush has brought about the best of what people can do in this sandbox style VR game.
In its 3rd year, the annual Proto Awards have followed the Oculus Connect event, doing so in 3 consecutive years. This event was held at AVALON in Hollywood, California with 17 categories up for grabs with one special award.
Now for the nominees and the winners:
Best Social Experience
AltspaceVR – AltspaceVR (Winner)
- Lecture VR – Immersive VR Education Ltd.
- Rec Room – Against Gravity
- Pool Nation VR – Perilous Orbit & Cherry Pop Games
- New Retro Arcade: Neon – Digital Cybercherries Limited
- Speech Center VR – Cerevrum Inc
Best Mobile Experience
Tactera – E McNeill (Winner)
- The Night Cafe: A VR Tribute to Vincent Van Gogh – Borrowed Light Studios
- Ctrl – Breaking Fourth
- Zen Zone – Aaron Lemke
- Pearl – Google Spotlight Studios
- Music From Every Angle – m ss ng p eces
Most Transportive Experience
theBlu: Season 1 – Wevr (Winner)
- Apollo 11 VR – Immersive VR Education Ltd.
- The Climb – Crytek
- ADR1FT – Three One Zero
- Old Friend – Tyler Hurd
- Irrational Exuberance: Prologue – Ben Vance, Wevr
Best Interaction Design
Fantastic Contraption – Northway Games & Radial Games (Winner)
- Job Simulator – Owlchemy Labs
- Waltz of the Wizard – Aldin Dynamics
- SoundStage – Logan Olson
- Tilt Brush – Google
- Rec Room – Against Gravity
Most Innovative
Tilt Brush – Google (Winner)
- Pixel Ripped 1989 – Pixel Ripped Inc
- Blocks – Leap Motion
- VR Noir: A Day Before the Night – StartVR
- The Lab – Valve
- FIREBIRD: La Peri (Book 1) – Innerspace VR
Best Original Score
Pearl – Google Spotlight Stories (Winner)
- Zen Zone – Aaron Lemke
- Pixel Ripped 1989 – Pixel Ripped Inc
- Apollo 11 VR – Immersive VR Education Ltd.
- Windlands – Psytec Games Ltd
- The Rose And I – Penrose Studios
Best Live Action Experience
The Argo File – Argos VR (Winner)
- Music From Every Angle – m ss ng p eces
- Hard World for Small Things – Wevr
- Zoolander Infinity – David Rosenbaum, Jaunt
- Waves – Wevr
- The Presence – Pseudoscience Pictures
Best Sound Design
Space Pirate Trainer – I-Illusions (Winner)
- Zen Zone – Aaron Lemke
- Trials on Tatooine: A Cinematic Star Wars Experiment – ILMxLAB
- Chronos – Gunfire Games
- Reeps One: Does Not Exist – Aurelia Soundworks
- Land’s End – ustwo games
Best Educational Experience
Apollo 11 VR – Immersive VR Education Ltd. (Winner)
- Lecture VR – Immersive VR Education Ltd.
- Grav|Lab – Gravitational Testing Facility & Observations – Mark Schramm
- House of Languages VR – Fox3D
- C O S M Worlds Within Worlds – Dynamoid
- The Field Trip to Mars – Framestore VR Studio & McCann
Best Student Experience
Fruit Golf – Coal Car StudioWe Are Alfred – Embodied Labs (Winner)
- Shining360 – Claire Hentschker
- Lions & Deer – Lean House Media
- Chapel – Dean Moro and Lauren Krikorian
- My real virtual body: Body Swapping in virtual reality – Alice Chirico
Best Music Experience
Soundscape – SNAKE Productions (Winner)
- Old Friend – Tyler Hurd
- Music From Every Angle – m ss ng p eces
- Grace – MacInnes Scott
- SoundStage – Logan Olson
- Apex – Arjan van Meerten
Best Art Direction
FIREBIRD: La Peri (Book 1) – Innerspace VRKismet – Psyop (Winner)
- Chronos – Gunfire Games
- Apex – Arjan van Meerten
- Cosmic Trip – Funktronic Labs
- theBlu: Season 1 – Wevr
Best Narrative Experience
The Gallery – Episode 1: Call of the Starseed – Cloudhead Games (Winner)
- Waves – Wevr
- Knives – Adam Cosco
- Pearl – Google Spotlight Stories
- The Martian VR Experience – Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Innovation Lab, RSA Films, The Virtual Reality Company
- Kiya – Emblematic Group
Best Independent Experience
Space Pirate Trainer – I-Illusions (Winner)
- Tactera – E McNeill
- SoundStage – Logan Olson
- Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope – Croteam
- Shape Space VR – Zen Parade – Kevin Mack
- Windlands – Psytec Games Ltd
Best User Interface
Modbox – Alientrap (Winner)
- Dota VR Hub – Valve
- Envelop VR – Bob Berry
- Orian Trail VR – Schell Games
- Transport – Wevr
- Speech Center VR – Cerevrum Inc
Best Overall
Tilt Brush – Google (Winner)
- Raw Data – Survios
- Space Pirate Trainer – I-Illusions
- Bullet Train – Epic Games
- Modbox – Alientrap
- The Lab – Valve