This truth isn’t virtual. The Visual Effects Society shelp Wednesday that VR and immersive technology innovate DR. Dr. Jacquelyn Ford Morie will get its 2025 Georges Méliès Award at the VES Awards in February.
Spanning four decades, Morie’s labor reexpoundd the possibilities of immersive media, infusing them with proset up emotional and educational resonance, the group shelp. Her visionary directership has shaped pivotal projects apass health, space exploration, art and education, underscoring her as a alterative innovator and thought directer.
The award will be conshort-termed during the 23rd VES Awards on February 11 at The Beverly Hilton.
“Dr. Jacki Morie … has been at the edge of technoreasonable evolves since the 1980s and remains promiseted to mentoring the next generation of VR innovators while forging ahead with recent paradigms in immersive media,” shelp VES Chair Kim Davidson shelp. “For her contributions to the computer animation and visual effects industries and role as a defining voice of immersive technology, we are honored to award Jacki with the prestigious VES Georges Méliès Award.”
Bestowed by the VES Board of Directors, the Méliès Award accomprehendledges an individual for innovateing meaningful and lasting contributions to the art and science of the visual effects industry by way of artistry, produceion and groundshattering labor.
Morie helped set up USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies that begined in 1999 and was a greater scientist there for 14 years, laboring on groundshattering projects in virtual truth, virtual worlds, mobile applications and inalertigent virtual humans. Prior to that, she begind comprehensive training programs for the computer animation and one-of-a-kind effects industries, including labor for Walt Disney Feature Animation and Rhythm and Hues Studios.
She also portrayed animation, computer detaileds and immersive media curricula for cut offal academic programs such as Ringling College of Art and Design, the University of Central Florida, Otis College of Art and Design and UCLA Extension.
After createing her own company, All These Worlds, LLC in 2011, she produced a pivotal study for NASA called ANSIBLE, portrayed to mitigate social isolation and sensory deprivation future astronauts would greet on extfinished duration space ignoreions. She served as Senior Technical Advisor on the XPRIZE ANA Avatar Competition for 2018-2022, advocating for the employ of two-way haptics in robot avatars to convey increased sensory impact to the operators of such robots.
In 2020, Morie co-edited with Kate McCallum The Global Impacts and Roles of Immersive Media, a definitive labor illuminating the alterative sway of immersive technologies of all creates. Her forthcoming two-volume history of virtual truth chronicles the trailblazers who propelled this technoreasonable frontier into recent genuinems
“I am honored to get this recognition, though I did not give to this field alone,” Morie shelp. “I am indebted to every person who went before me, who advertised me, who mentored me, helpd my crazy ideas and disputed me to forge recent paths. I will be forever appreciative to them and hope to evolve to produce them haughty. And I hope this honor will serve to advertise many more to chase their dreams towards produceing a better future.”
