Game Development World Championship 2023 - Summer Season
VR & AR Award
Awarded for best VR and AR games
presented with
Total Prize pool of €8,000 for VR and AR games!
Got a VR game? You can join!
Got an AR game or AR features in your game? You can join!
Are you looking to try out Immersal SDK? You can join!
2023 winter Awards
Watch the GDWC 2023 Winter Season Awards Stream recording below:
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VR & AR Award details
Who can participate?
Both Prize Pools are open to all developers and development teams.
GDWC will Nominate games for the Award from all participants, based on available information.
What games can be submitted?
Games still in-development and games fully released in past 12 months (since March 1st 2022.)
For the Open VR & AR Prize:
Any games that are made for Virtual Reality platforms.
Any games that have Augmented Reality features.
Game only needs to match one of these requirements.
For the Immersal AR Prize:
Any games that implement the Immersal AR SDK.
More details about the SDK at below.
What are the prizes?
Open VR/AR Prize
Winner takes home a 1000 € cash prize
Immersal AR Prize
Winner takes home 5000 € cash prize
Two runner ups get 1000 € cash prize each
Who decides the Winner?
Winner is decided by a Jury appointed by Immersal
When is the competition?
Submit your game to GDWC by the end of May 2023
Winner is announced in early July 2023
How to join?
Join the competition by creating an account and submitting your team & game or games to the GDWC.
To participate in the Immersal AR Prized, you must implement the Immersal AR SDK to your game.
Join the over 39,000 game developers already competing!
Award presented by Immersal
Immersal, part of Hexagon, develops AR tech that empowers people to merge digital and physical realities with Spatial Mapping and Visual Positioning.
Build immersive AR environments where digital worlds merge with the real one. Transform how people work, play, shop, and interact with the world around them.
The metaverse is rising – being built by pioneering developers, service providers, content creators and now, people just like you. The Immersal App is a totally new and simple way to create, share and experience life in the metaverse. Use it to map a real-life space on your phone or tablet, add digital content like pics, videos, emojis and messages, and share with whoever you want.
Win big with Immersal SDK
Immersal AR Prize is open to all developers that implement Immersal SDK into their game.
Immersal SDK allows you to build centimeter-accurate, persistent multiuser AR applications that can be used on AR-capable mobile devices and with AR-glasses.
Gamify any space or place, deepening engagement, adding value and sparking joy along the way. Add fun AR layers, multiplayer interactive elements, contests, ad campaign mechanisms, and more.
Digital Mapping for Augmented Reality (AR) with Leica BLK Autonomy and Immersal
Whether you are making City Guide -AR experience or developing a treasure hunt -AR experience - professional 3D scanning device like Leica BKL2GO can be a very useful and efficient way to map your planned area.
In this webinar the team will take you through a practical example of how the process could look for mapping a small area using the BLK2GO, uploading the point cloud into Unity and how to work with the data.
