| Assoc. Prof. Dr | Mario | Covarrubias | Politecnico di Milano | Italy | VR Research Excellence Award | vrresearchaward.com |
| Ms | Mahsa | Nasri | Northeastern University | United States | Best VR Researcher Award | vrresearchaward.com |
| Prof | Lu | Ye | Civil Aviation Flight University of China | China | Best VR Faculty Award | vrresearchaward.com |
| Dr | Liwei | Sun | Guangdong Ocean University | China | Research Excellence Award | vrresearchaward.com |
| Dr | Kristyn | Wilson | University of Virginia | United States | Best VR Researcher Award | vrresearchaward.com |
| Ms | KM Rinki | | Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow | India | Research Excellence Award | vrresearchaward.com |
| Dr | Kateřina | Holušová | Mendel University in Brno | Czech Republic | Research Excellence Award | vrresearchaward.com |
| Dr | Julian | Humml | California Institute of Technology | United States | Best VR Researcher Award | vrresearchaward.com |
| Ms | Julia | Barczyk | University of Wrocław | Poland | VR Research Excellence Award | vrresearchaward.com |
| Mr | Joel Poncha | Lemayian | ETS | Canada | Research Excellence Award | vrresearchaward.com |
| Ms | Jingjing | Xu | Southwest University | China | Early Career Researcher in VR/AR Award | vrresearchaward.com |
| Dr | Jennifer | Hayakawa | Rady Children”s Health Orange County | United States | Research Excellence Award | vrresearchaward.com |
| Dr | Jendrian | Riedel | Hochschule Bremen | Germany | Research Excellence Award | vrresearchaward.com |
| Assist. Prof. Dr | Huimin | Wang | Southwest Jiaotong University | China | Research Excellence Award | vrresearchaward.com |
| Mr | Himanshu Sekhar | Panda | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India | India | Research Excellence Award | vrresearchaward.com |
| Prof | Hengrui | Ma | Wuhan University of Technology | China | Research Excellence Award | vrresearchaward.com |
| Ms | Hamraz | Javaheri | German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) | Germany | Women in VR Research Award | vrresearchaward.com |
| Mr | Hamid Gholami | Pourbadie | Pasteur Institute of Iran | Iran | Research Excellence Award | vrresearchaward.com |
| Dr | Hailemariam Ayalew | Tiruneh | International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) | Kenya | Research Excellence Award | vrresearchaward.com |
| Prof | Haifeng | Pei | The general hospital of western theater command | China | Research Excellence Award | vrresearchaward.com |