VRST 2020

Event

Name	Value
isA	Event
Acronym	VRST 2020
Title	26th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology
Start date	2020/11/01
End date	2020/11/04
Homepage	https://vrst.acm.org/vrst2020/
...	...

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
  • Chris 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 Chairs
  • Anthon Scavarelli, Carleton University/Algonquin College, Canada
  • Katie Graham, Carleton University, Canada

• Poster/Demo Chairs
  • Anil Ufuk Batmaz, Simon Fraser University, Canada
  • Wonsook Lee, University of Ottawa, Canada

• Sponsorship Chairs
  • Dan Hawes, Carleton University/Toonrush Inc., Canada

• Publicity Chair
  • Francisco Ortega, Colorado State University, USA