On December 30, 2021, the award ceremony of the 6th China VR / AR Creation Contest was held in the Metaverse virtual venue, which is the first award ceremony held in the Metaverse space in China. The contest is hosted by School of Journalism and Communication of BNU, China Network Audiovisual Program Service Association, People's Video, and Digital Creative Media Research Center. And it carried out strategic cooperation with the Science and Technology Communication Center of China Association for Science and Technology, HTC VIVEPORT, VeeR VR, Kuaishou Panoramic Video, Canton Fair Advertising Company, KANDAO Technology, Xinhuanet Media Innovation Workshop, Beijing Magic AI Technology Co., Ltd., and Beijing Normal University Internet Development Research Institute.

The award ceremony was broadcast live on the platforms of Xinhua News Agency, China VR/AR Creation Contest, Kuaishou account of KANDAO Technology, Bilibili account of School of Journalism and Communication of BNU and other platforms. Nearly 200,000 people participated in the award ceremony through virtual avatars in person at the "Metaverse" venue or by watching live broadcasts online.

The Metaverse venue of the 6th China VR/AR Creation Contest Award Ceremony was built on an offshore platform full of technology and surreal scenes. The venue is equipped with a red carpet area, a poster display area, a rest area, an awarding area, and a viewing area. Before the award ceremony, the guests entered the Metaverse through customized virtual avatars, walked on the red carpet at the venue, watched posters of award-winning works, had face-to-face conversations with academics and industry leaders, and took group photos. At 14:30, the award ceremony of the 6th China VR/AR Creation Contest officially started, and all the guests gathered in the viewing area to watch the ceremony.

The contest opened in Shenzhen in May 2021, and a number of large-scale offline screenings, VR creation workshops, and industry-academia forums were subsequently held. As of December 20, the organizing committee of the competition has received a total of 155 panoramic videos or VR/AR application works and 405 short video works from 24 units and individual creators in many countries. After three rounds of preliminary review, review and final review in the selection process, 38 works were shortlisted for the final award.

The first prize was won by "See You Yesterday". Two works "A Hundred Years and a Life" and "Word on the Water" won the second prize. Three works of "Maldives Above and Below the Sea", "Bayannaoer" and "Trace and Inheritance - Cultural Heritage Documentary" won the third prize. In addition, there are five special feature film units: the 100th anniversary of the founding of the CPC, the Rural Revitalization unit, the panoramic science and technology unit, the visual effect unit and the Liangshan unit; The best VR entertainment, the best VR tourism, the best VR plot, the best VR animation, the best VR news, the best VR documentary, the best VR interaction and other creative individual award units, "Jinduo·annual Popularity Award" also have their own attribution. The exhibition of award-winning works in the competition will be launched simultaneously, and online audience friends can watch it in real time in Pico home online cinema through head display.

During the award ceremony, the competition venue took the venue sky as the screen, displayed the fragments of the award-winning works on the hemispherical dome, presented the "virtual environment" constructed by the VR images taken by the authors of the award-winning works in an all-round way, and brought the guests into the shooting scene with the super immersion and high interactive experience of "two-dimensional universe". The guests traveled through the wonderful nights of the brilliantly lit Yu Garden, the vibrant northwest grassland pastures, the scorching lotus ponds in summer, and the simple and traditional ancient villages and towns... immersed in the contestants' lens to see the world. A number of strategic partner technology companies showcased the latest technological developments in the VR field.