Western Sydney University invites you to submit papers, abstracts, demos, and posters for the 25th Annual ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2019).

VRST 2019 is the premier international symposium for the presentation of new research results, systems, and techniques among researchers and developers concerned with Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality software and technology.

For the 25th silver anniversary of the conference, this year VRST 2019 will be hosted by Western Sydney University in Sydney, Australia, from 12 November to 15 November 2019. VRST 2019 is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), SIGCHI, and SIGGRAPH.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality / Mixed Reality (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 systems for XR
Brain-computer interfaces
Haptics, smell and taste
Audio and music processing, and/or sound synthesis for XR
Computer vision and computer graphics techniques for XR
Immersive simulations in XR and Immersive analytics
Modelling and simulation
Real-time physics-based modelling
Real-time and physically based rendering
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


Submission deadlines:

Papers and abstracts
19 July 2019 (23:59 Anywhere on Earth)

Posters and Demos
15 August 2019 (23:59 Anywhere on Earth)

Author notification for papers, posters and demos
15 September 2019

All accepted papers will be published in the ACM digital library in the VRST collection. To submit your abstract, papers, posters or demos, please follow the link https://confs.precisionconference.com/~sigchi

For further information on submission guidelines and key conference dates, please visit: https://vrst.acm.org/vrst2019/submissions/

For any enquiries relating to submissions, please email papers2019@vrst.acm.org

For all general conference enquiries, please contact: chairs.2019@vrst.acm.org