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    Awards Partner

    Academy of Immersive Arts & Sciences

    ThePolys — annual awards celebrating immersive craft and innovation

    The Academy of Immersive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) hosts ThePolys, the annual awards recognizing excellence across immersive art, design, storytelling, and technology. An XRGuide partner helping us spotlight nominees, finalists, and award-winning works.
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    Global
    Nominee Pool
    Cross-Platform
    Eligibility

    ThePolys Awards

    Annual recognition across immersive art, narrative, design, and emerging technology — surfaced in XRGuide's awards and editorial collections.

    Academy Membership

    A growing membership of immersive practitioners — artists, technologists, producers, and educators — that informs the awards process.

    Showcasing Excellence

    ThePolys nominees and winners are tagged in XRGuide's catalog so explorers can discover the best work each year.

    How we collaborate

    XRGuide partners with AIAS to surface nominees and winners across our catalog. ThePolys announcements feed our news section, and award collections appear alongside LBE and festival showcases.

    Academy members are invited into the XRGuide guide / curator program and given first access to add new releases and coming-soon features into the guide.

    Partner with XRGuide

    Academy of Immersive Arts & Sciences is one of the organizations we work alongside on mixed reality, streaming events, summits, portal crawls, productions and distribution strategies. Partners get first access to add new releases into the guide.

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