The ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) is an international forum for the exchange of experience and knowledge among researchers and developers concerned with VR/AR software and technology.
The VRST symposium brings together the main international research groups working on AR/VR/MR, along with many of the world’s leading companies that provide or utilize AR/VR systems. The VRST 2020 conference will be held in Ottawa, Canada, hosted by Carleton University, from November 1 to November 4, 2020. The event is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGGRAPH.
For the first time, VRST will be colocated with the ACM CHI Play 2020 Symposium (https://chiplay.acm.org/2020/), to help foster collaborations between researchers in the increasingly related VR and games/HCI communities.
Topics
- VR/AR/MR(=XR) technology and devices
- Advanced display technologies and immersive projection technologies
- Low-latency and high-performance XR
- Multi-user and distributed XR
- XR software infrastructures
- XR authoring systems
- Human interaction and collaborative techniques for XR
- Input devices for XR
- Tracking and sensing
- Multisensory and multimodal system for XR
- Brain-computer interfaces
- Haptics, smell and taste
- Audio and music processing for XR
- Sound synthesis for XR
- Computer vision and computer graphics techniques for XR
- Immersive simulations in XR
- Immersive analytics
- Modelling and simulation
- Real-time physics-based modelling
- Real-time rendering
- Physically based rendering for XR
- Avatars and virtual humans in XR
- Tele-operation and telepresence
- Performance testing & evaluation
- Locomotion and navigation in virtual environments
- Perception, presence, virtual embodiment, and cognition
- Teleoperation and telepresence
- Computer animation for XR
- XR applications (e.g. training systems, medical systems ...)
- XR for fabrication
- Innovative HCI approaches in XR
- Multi-disciplinary research projects involving innovative use of XR
Submissions
Poster and Demo Tracks: VRST 2020 welcomes posters and demos on all the main topics. More details soon.
Call for Exhibitors and Sponsors: VRST 2020 offers exhibitors and sponsors an opportunity to showcase their company's products, attractive demos and innovative solutions at the symposium. Please refer to the conference web-page for information about signing up to become an exhibitor or sponsor at VRST 2020.
Submission Information: Please use the ACM SIGCHI Conferences Submission System to submit your work: http://precisionconference.com/~sigchi (link will open shortly)
Publication of the papers: All accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library in the VRST collection.
Paper Format: Paper submissions should be anonymous and prepared in single column format, using the Word and LaTeX templates in the official ACM Master article template packages: https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow. See this webpage also for guidance on how content length corresponds to the page limits for the final version.
Maximum length:
Full research paper, final version: 9 pages + references
Short paper, final version: 4 pages + references
Poster, final version: 2 pages including references
2-column "teaser" figures on the front page are encouraged, but not required for all submissions.
Important Dates
June 29, 2020 (23:59 AoE): Papers with all material submission
August 3, 2020 (23:59 AoE): Posters and demos submission
August 17, 2020 (23:59 AoE): Author notification for papers, posters and demos
September 1, 2020 (23:59 AoE): Camera-ready papers, posters, and demos
November 1-4, 2020: Conference in Ottawa, Canada
Committees
- General Co-Chairs
- Robert J. Teather, Carleton University, Canada
- User:Curator 83ris Joslin, Carleton University, Canada
- PC Co-Chairs
- Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Pablo Figueroa, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
- Yaoping Hu, University of Calgary, Canada
- Local Arrangements User:Curator 83airs
- Anthon Scavarelli, Carleton University/Algonquin College, Canada
- Katie Graham, Carleton University, Canada
- Poster/Demo User:Curator 83airs
- Anil Ufuk Batmaz, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Wonsook Lee, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Sponsorship User:Curator 83airs
- Dan Hawes, Carleton University/Toonrush Inc., Canada
- Publicity User:Curator 83air
- Francisco Ortega, Colorado State University, USA
