The Awards Committee has selected the following work as representative of the best of IEEE VR 2008. Congratulations go to the following authors!

Best Paper Award

• Virtual Human + Tangible Interface = Mixed Reality Human: An Initial Exploration with a Virtual Breast Exam Patient
  Aaron Kotranza, Benjamin Lok

Best Short Paper Award

• User Boresighting for AR Calibration: A Preliminary Analysis (SKETCH)
  Magnus Axholt, Stephen Peterson, Stephen R. Ellis

Best Poster Award

• Virtual 3D World Construction by Inter-connecting Photograph-based 3D Models
  Takashi Aoki, Tomohiro Tanikawa, Michitaka Hirose

Best Paper Honorable Mentions

• Envisor: Online Environment Map Construction for Mixed Reality
  Stephen DiVerdi, Jason Wither, Tobias Höllerer

• Evaluation of Reorientation Techniques for Walking in Large Virtual Environments
  Tabitha C. Peck, Mary C. Whitton, Henry Fuchs

• Advanced Tracking Through Efficient Image Processing and Visual-Inertial Sensor Fusion
  Gabriele Bleser, Didier Stricker

Best Poster Honorable Mention

• A Universal Virtual Locomotion System: Supporting Generic Redirected Walking and Dynamic Passive Haptics within Legacy 3D Graphics Applications
  Frank Steinice, Timo Ropinski, Gerd Bruder, Klaus Hinrichs, Harald Frenz, Markus Lappe

Best Paper Nominations

• A Mixed Reality Approach for Merging Abstract and Concrete Knowledge
  John Quarles, Samsun Lampotang, Ira Fischler, Paul Fishwick, Benjamin Lok

• Circular, Linear, and Curvilinear Vection in a Large-screen Virtual Environment with Floor Projection
  Laura C. Trutoiu, Betty Mohler, Jorg Schulte-Pelkum, Heinrich H. Bulthoff

• Managing Visual Clutter: A Generalized Technique for Label Segregation using Stereoscopic Disparity
  Stephen Peterson, Magnus Axholt, Stephen R. Ellis

• Hybrid Feature Tracking and User Interaction for Markerless Augmented Reality
  Taehee Lee, Tobias Höllerer