Dr. Jacquelyn Ford Morie Recognised for Paving the Way for Modern VR Advancements with 'Accenture VR Lifetime Achievement' Award - The Virtual Report

The Academy of International Extended Reality (AIXR) unveiled the recipient of this year’s ‘Accenture VR Lifetime Achievement’ grant winner: Dr. Jacquelyn Ford Morie, artist, educator, idiosyncratic and wide known arsenic a pioneer successful virtual world (VR) and the transportation of meaningful and innovative experiences. Jacquelyn volition judge the grant astatine a unrecorded ceremonial connected Dec. 1, 2022 successful Rotterdam, Netherlands.

The highest accolade fixed by AIXR, the Accenture VR Lifetime Achievement Award celebrates pioneers who person made outstanding contributions towards the aboriginal of VR. Nominations and judging for this grant travel a rigorous process, with finalists selected by a dedicated steering committee and the victor chosen based connected interaction to the manufacture and affirmative power connected aboriginal generations. The erstwhile recipient of this grant was Tom Furness, immersive pioneer and laminitis of Virtual World Society.

Dr. Jacquelyn Ford Morie connected accepting the Accenture VR Lifetime Achievement Award: ”Sometimes life, arsenic you are surviving it, takes twists and turns you ne'er expect. This is particularly existent if you are pursuing your bliss, arsenic Joseph Campbell advises america to do. My way was fortunate capable to person included roads that led to aboriginal machine graphics arsenic good arsenic being capable to observe however to marque those into engaging and meaningful virtual world experiences. In the end, we are each composed of atoms and energy, experiences and memories.

And being capable to marque specified wondrous constructs that alteration heavy memories with immersive exertion has been 1 of the joys of my creator career. I anticipation my receiving this grant inspires adjacent much creators to marque wondrous works successful the caller immersive media, taking them to the adjacent signifier of their evolution.“

Daniel Colaianni, AIXR main enforcement commented: “We are precise arrogant to recognise Dr Jacquelyn Morie with specified a prestigious award. Jacquelyn is simply a highly regarded immersive pioneer for experiences we cognize and emotion today, and we are assured that their designation volition animate the adjacent procreation of doers and makers to interruption caller crushed and alteration the mode the satellite acquisition the metaverse.”

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