AREAS OF INTEREST

We invite researchers from VR/AR/MR to participate and submit their work to the program. Likewise, any work on AI that has a relation to any of these fields or potential for the usage in any of them is welcome. The conference seeks original, high-quality contributions related but not limited to works exploring:

The role of AI in XR, that is, work assessing the current state of AI integration within XR technologies and experiences.

Innovation of XR with AI, that is, work identifying opportunities for AI to enhance XR worlds and experiences, such as photorealistic avatars, dynamic virtual environments, and anticipatory user interactions.

Technical and human challenges, that is, work addressing the technical obstacles and human factors that must be overcome to unlock the full potential of AI in XR.

Ethical considerations, that is, work exploring the ethical implications of AI-driven XR advancements, including privacy, agency, and digital identity concerns.

Concrete areas of interest for the technical program include but are not limited to:

Systems, including techniques, performance, and implementation

• System components, virtual reality platforms
• AI platforms for VR/AR, cloud-based platforms
• Data generation, manipulation, analysis, and validation
• Tracking, physical environment mapping, registration
• Vision for VR/AR, deep learning for VR/AR
• Standards and theoretical models for AI and/or VR

Content creation and modelling

• Generation of immersive environments and virtual worlds
• Environments for gaming, simulation, training
• Visualization, optimized and realistic rendering
• Geometric modelling and design in immersive settings
• Animations, crowd-simulation, character modelling
• Customization and personalization (e.g., for training)

Cognitive aspects, perception, user behaviour

• Semantic and cognitive aspects of virtual reality
• Depth perception, multimodal perception
• Behaviour and activity generation
• Representations of self (avatars), embodiment, presence
• Virtual agents, conversational non-player characters (NPCs)
• Understanding and modelling human behaviour, emotions

AI technologies for VR/AR

• Search, planning, reasoning
• Knowledge representation
• Natural language processing
• Robotics and perception
• Multi-agent systems
• Statistical learning, deep learning

Interactions / interactive and responsive environments

• Multimodal interaction and experiences in VR/AR
• Machine learning for multimodal interaction
• Human-virtual user/agent interaction
• Human to human communication in virtual environments, collaboration and communication
• Dialogue modelling and generation, conversational and natural language interfaces, speech interaction for AR/VR
• Navigation and spatial orientation in VR
• Interaction devices, Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI)

Applications and use cases

• Data and knowledge representation, problem solving
• Visualization concepts (including, e.g., spatial visualization, multimodality for visualization) and domains (e.g., scientific visualization)
• Arts, leisure, and entertainment
• Gaming and game narratives, immersive storytelling and gameplay
• Education, training, simulation
• Business, prototyping, productivity, design and architecture, evaluation
• Telepresence and collaboration, social interactions
• Healthcare and therapy
• Evaluation metrics and methodologies
• Quality of Experience (QoE)

Ethical and societal aspects of AI and VR/AR

• Sensory vulnerability
• Privacy and data
• Social isolation, desensitization
• Overestimation of abilities, psychiatric
• Unpalatable fantasies, torture/virtual criminality
• Manipulation, appropriate roaming and re-creation

SUBMISSION TRACKS

For 2024, we are welcoming submissions for the following tracks:

Full paper track

Full papers of up to 8 pages lengths (excluding references) are the core of the conference and present new and innovative research in AI and VR/AR. Submissions should be double-blind (i.e., remove all author information) and will be thoroughly reviewed by at least three members from the international program committee with respect to their scientific value and contribution. If accepted, one author must register at the full conference rate and present the work at the conference. All accepted full papers will be archived in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

Short paper track

Short papers of up to 4 pages lengths (excluding references) provide an opportunity to present work addressing smaller contributions than full papers, including preliminary results and pilot studies, design ideas with inital proof of concept, etc. Submissions will be reviewed thoroughly and double-blindly (i.e., remove all author information when submitting) by at least three members from the international program committee with respect to their potential and contribution. If accepted, one author must register at the full conference rate and present the work at the conference. All accepted short papers will be archived in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

Industry paper track

Industry contributions are papers of up to 8 pages lengths (excluding references) that describe technologies, methodologies, applications, prototypes or experiences of clear industry relevance. Submissions will be reviewed thoroughly and double-blindly (i.e., remove all author information when submitting) by at least three members from the international program committee based on novelty and applicability of insights from industrial solutions. If accepted, one author must register at the full conference rate and present them in a dedicated industry session at the conference. All accepted industry papers will be archived in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.