for excellence in social VR and virtual worlds?
I’ve been letting an idea percolate in my head, and now that we are getting closer to awards season in real life, perhaps it’s time to bring it out for closer inspection and debate: what if we held an annual awards ceremony for excellence in social VR and virtual worlds?
We could call them the Schultzies. 😉 OK, maybe not… but let’s toss the idea around for a bit and see what we all can come up with.
We need:
- A name for the awards;
- Categories for the awards;
- A time (and a place!) for an awards ceremony;
- An award of some type (a picture and/or in-world mesh object);
- A host (I am willing to step in if Billy Crystal is unavailable).
What else would we need? The most important thing that we need, right now, is categories. Here are some examples to get us started:
- Best Social VR Platform of 2019;
- Best (Non-VR) Virtual World of 2019;
- Best Blockchain-Based Virtual World of 2019;
- Best Content Creator/Brand of 2019;
- Best In-World Store/Marketplace Product of 2019;
- Most Innovative Use of a Social VR/Virtual World in 2019;
- Best Marketing/PR Move by a Social VR/Virtual World in 2019;
- Outstanding Contribution to Social VR/Virtual Worlds in 2019 (an award we would give to an individual person);
- What other categories can you come up with?
We could also (if we wish) incorporate some aspect of the Razzies, by including awards for some of the more ignominious achievements of the year:
- Biggest Platform Fail of 2019;
- Biggest Advertising/PR Mistake Made by a Company in 2019;
- What other categories can you think of?
I could whip up a poll for nominations for each category, and select the top 4 or 5 suggestions in each category as our finalists.
Whaddayathink? Could we make this work? I think this might be a lot of fun.
First things first: what are we gonna call the awards? Please feel free to leave a comment below, or better yet, join us on the RyanSchultz.com Discord server, the world’s first cross-world discussion forum, where we can toss around some ideas. We’d love to have you!
P.S. I am willing to organize, but if I do then I don’t think it’s fair for me to actually vote on the awards in that case, so I will remove myself from that. The voting would be open to the users of the various social VR platforms and virtual worlds for a set period of time (say, two weeks).
P.P.S. Perhaps we should scrap the Razzies portion of the awards before we get started; it would just seem like kicking certain companies when they’re already down. It just doesn’t seem sporting to me.
UPDATE 5:39 p.m.: Adam Frisby of Sinespace had a good suggestion: that I investigate the various in-world awards shows of the past (the Cy Awards in ActiveWorlds, the Avi Choice Awards in Second Life, etc.).
So that’s exactly what I am going to do over the next few days (in between ransacking various Second Life Advent calendars, of course!). So if you don’t see any posts over the next few days, you’ll know I have gone down the rabbit hole…
