{"id":887,"date":"2026-10-29T10:19:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web3d.siggraph.org\/2026\/?page_id=887"},"modified":"2026-10-29T10:19:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:19:54","slug":"competitions-winners","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web3d.siggraph.org\/2026\/competitions-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Competitions Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- WEB3D 2026 COMPETITIONS WINNERS - paste entire file into one Custom HTML block -->\n<div id=\"w3d-awards\">\n  <div class=\"wa-intro\">\n    <span class=\"wa-kicker\">WEB3D 2026 \u00b7 DOHA, QATAR<\/span>\n    <h2>Competitions Winners<\/h2>\n    <p>Celebrating the award recipients of Web3D 2026 for outstanding research, innovation, and contributions to 3D Web technology. Each card below includes the full paper or project title together with a certificate preview.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"wa-title\">\n    <h2>Awards, Winners &amp; Certificates<\/h2>\n    <p>Click a certificate preview or select View Certificate to open the full-size image.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"wa-grid\">\n\n    <article class=\"wa-card\">\n      <div class=\"wa-category\">Best Poster<\/div>\n      <h3>Feng Liu<\/h3>\n      <p class=\"wa-work\">Designing for Healthy Disengagement in Metaverse Environments: A Health-Aware Engagement Framework and 3D Virtual Mall Pilot Study<\/p>\n      <a class=\"wa-cert-preview\" href=\"https:\/\/web3d.siggraph.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/web3d-2026-best-poster-feng-liu.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web3d.siggraph.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/web3d-2026-best-poster-feng-liu.jpg\" alt=\"Certificate for Feng Liu - Best Poster - Web3D 2026\" loading=\"lazy\">\n      <\/a>\n      <a class=\"wa-cert-button\" href=\"https:\/\/web3d.siggraph.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/web3d-2026-best-poster-feng-liu.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View Certificate<\/a>\n    <\/article>\n\n    <article class=\"wa-card\">\n      <div class=\"wa-category\">Best Industrial Case<\/div>\n      <h3>Ondrej Strnad, Deng Luo, Venkatesh Nair and Le Song Liu<\/h3>\n      <p class=\"wa-work\">CellMap: WebGPU Visualization of Multi-Scale AI-Generated Cell Biology Data<\/p>\n      <a class=\"wa-cert-preview\" href=\"https:\/\/web3d.siggraph.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/web3d-2026-best-industrial-case-cellmap.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web3d.siggraph.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/web3d-2026-best-industrial-case-cellmap.jpg\" alt=\"Certificate for Ondrej Strnad, Deng Luo, Venkatesh Nair and Le Song Liu - Best Industrial Case - Web3D 2026\" loading=\"lazy\">\n      <\/a>\n      <a class=\"wa-cert-button\" href=\"https:\/\/web3d.siggraph.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/web3d-2026-best-industrial-case-cellmap.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View Certificate<\/a>\n    <\/article>\n\n    <article class=\"wa-card\">\n      <div class=\"wa-category\">Best Industrial Case<\/div>\n      <h3>Johannes Behr, Christian Stein and Hannes Krug<\/h3>\n      <p class=\"wa-work\">Agentic 3D: Transforming Industrial Workflows through AI-Driven Digital Twins<\/p>\n      <a class=\"wa-cert-preview\" href=\"https:\/\/web3d.siggraph.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/web3d-2026-best-industrial-case-agentic-3d.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web3d.siggraph.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/web3d-2026-best-industrial-case-agentic-3d.jpg\" alt=\"Certificate for Johannes Behr, Christian Stein and Hannes Krug - Best Industrial Case - Web3D 2026\" loading=\"lazy\">\n      <\/a>\n      <a class=\"wa-cert-button\" href=\"https:\/\/web3d.siggraph.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/web3d-2026-best-industrial-case-agentic-3d.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View Certificate<\/a>\n    <\/article>\n\n    <article class=\"wa-card\">\n      <div class=\"wa-category\">AI Tool Competition \u00b7 2nd Prize<\/div>\n      <h3>Alexander Hoffman<\/h3>\n      <p class=\"wa-work\">Techn\u0113 \u2014 a deterministic craft layer for MCP servers (verify-by-render)<\/p>\n      <a class=\"wa-cert-preview\" href=\"https:\/\/web3d.siggraph.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/web3d-2026-ai-tool-second-alexander-hoffman.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web3d.siggraph.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/web3d-2026-ai-tool-second-alexander-hoffman.jpg\" alt=\"Certificate for Alexander Hoffman - AI Tool Competition 2nd Prize - Web3D 2026\" loading=\"lazy\">\n      <\/a>\n      <a class=\"wa-cert-button\" href=\"https:\/\/web3d.siggraph.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/web3d-2026-ai-tool-second-alexander-hoffman.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View Certificate<\/a>\n    <\/article>\n\n    <article class=\"wa-card\">\n      <div class=\"wa-category\">AI Tool Competition \u00b7 1st Prize<\/div>\n      <h3>Alberto Jaspe-Villanueva<\/h3>\n      <p class=\"wa-work\">Closing the Loop: Spec-Grounded, Self-Verifying AI Authoring of X3D 4.0 Scenes in the Browser<\/p>\n      <a class=\"wa-cert-preview\" href=\"https:\/\/web3d.siggraph.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/web3d-2026-ai-tool-first-alberto-jaspe-villanueva.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web3d.siggraph.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/web3d-2026-ai-tool-first-alberto-jaspe-villanueva.jpg\" alt=\"Certificate for Alberto Jaspe-Villanueva - AI Tool Competition 1st Prize - Web3D 2026\" loading=\"lazy\">\n      <\/a>\n      <a class=\"wa-cert-button\" href=\"https:\/\/web3d.siggraph.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/web3d-2026-ai-tool-first-alberto-jaspe-villanueva.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View Certificate<\/a>\n    <\/article>\n\n    <article class=\"wa-card\">\n      <div class=\"wa-category\">Scientific Excellence<\/div>\n      <h3>Sina Kitz, Simon Katz, Jan Spindler, Zhastay Yeltay, Reza Rastegari, Julian Kaltheuner, Patrick Stotko and Reinhard Klein<\/h3>\n      <p class=\"wa-work\">BONSAI: Browser-Optimized Neural Gaussian Avatar Streaming<\/p>\n      <a class=\"wa-cert-preview\" href=\"https:\/\/web3d.siggraph.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/web3d-2026-scientific-excellence-bonsai.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web3d.siggraph.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/web3d-2026-scientific-excellence-bonsai.jpg\" alt=\"Certificate for Sina Kitz and coauthors - 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Alshehri, Matev\u017e Tadel, Alja M. Tadel, Marco Rovere, Markus Hadwiger and Alberto Jaspe-Villanueva<\/h3>\n      <p class=\"wa-work\">HGCalVis: Web-Based Importance-Ordered Visualization of CERN\u2019s HGCal Particle Showers<\/p>\n      <a class=\"wa-cert-preview\" href=\"https:\/\/web3d.siggraph.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/web3d-2026-scientific-excellence-hgcalvis.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web3d.siggraph.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/web3d-2026-scientific-excellence-hgcalvis.jpg\" alt=\"Certificate for Waad F. Alshehri and coauthors - Scientific Excellence - Web3D 2026\" loading=\"lazy\">\n      <\/a>\n      <a class=\"wa-cert-button\" href=\"https:\/\/web3d.siggraph.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/web3d-2026-scientific-excellence-hgcalvis.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View Certificate<\/a>\n    <\/article>\n\n    <article class=\"wa-card\">\n      <div class=\"wa-category\">Scientific Excellence<\/div>\n      <h3>Nikhil Narra, Rick Lentz, Don Brutzman and Nicholas Polys<\/h3>\n      <p class=\"wa-work\">x3d_mcp: A Model Context Protocol Server for AI-Assisted X3D Authoring<\/p>\n      <a class=\"wa-cert-preview\" href=\"https:\/\/web3d.siggraph.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/web3d-2026-scientific-excellence-x3d-mcp.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web3d.siggraph.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/web3d-2026-scientific-excellence-x3d-mcp.jpg\" alt=\"Certificate for Nikhil Narra, Rick Lentz, Don Brutzman and Nicholas Polys - Scientific Excellence - Web3D 2026\" loading=\"lazy\">\n      <\/a>\n      <a class=\"wa-cert-button\" href=\"https:\/\/web3d.siggraph.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/web3d-2026-scientific-excellence-x3d-mcp.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View Certificate<\/a>\n    <\/article>\n\n    <article class=\"wa-card\">\n      <div class=\"wa-category\">Best Short Contribution<\/div>\n      <h3>Mikel Salazar<\/h3>\n      <p class=\"wa-work\">A Reality Modeling Language to Facilitate the Definition of WebXR-enabled Spatial Computing Experiences<\/p>\n      <a class=\"wa-cert-preview\" href=\"https:\/\/web3d.siggraph.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/web3d-2026-best-short-contribution-mikel-salazar.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web3d.siggraph.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/web3d-2026-best-short-contribution-mikel-salazar.jpg\" alt=\"Certificate for Mikel Salazar - Best Short 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