VRST 2025: Call for Participation

Important Dates

• Paper Abstracts Due: Monday 7 July 2025
• Papers (all materials) Due: Monday 14 July 2025
• Author Notification for Papers: Monday 1 September 2025
• Revised Papers: Monday 8 September 2025
• Final Author Notification for Papers: Friday 12 September 2025
• Camera-Ready Papers: Monday 15 September 2025
• Conference: Wednesday 12 – Friday 14 November 2025

Each deadline is 23:59:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) == GMT/UTC-12:00 on the stated day, no matter where the submitter is located.

Topics

VRST 2025 welcomes paper submissions relating (but not limited) to the following XR areas:

• Display technology and interaction devices
• Low-latency and high-performance software and applications
• Multi-user and distributed XR
• XR software environments and authoring systems
• Interaction techniques
• Tracking and sensing
• Multimodal XR including haptics, smell, taste, and brain-computer interfaces
• Audio & music processing, sound synthesis, and sonification
• XR-related computer vision, computer graphics, and rendering techniques
• Immersive analytics
• Diversity and Inclusion in XR
• XR-related modeling and simulation techniques
• Avatars and virtual humans, virtual embodiment, and body-ownership illusions
• Teleoperation and telepresence
• Performance testing, user experience, and empirical studies
• Locomotion and navigation
• Perception, presence, and cognition
• XR applications, e.g. training, medical, fabrication
• Multi-disciplinary research projects involving innovative use of XR

PCS Submission Management System

Please use the Precision Conferences System (PCS) to submit your work. After clicking the link below, please choose “SIGCHI” from the “Society” drop-down list, then “VRST 2025” from the “Conference/Journal” drop-down list.

https://new.precisionconference.com/vrst2025

Submission Guidelines

All accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library in the VRST collection.

Format

Paper submissions must be anonymous for a double-blind review process.

• All submissions should be prepared using the Word or LaTeX templates from the official ACM Master article template packages and TAPS.
• For LaTeX authors, submissions should be made using the double-column format using \documentclass[sigconf,review,anonymous]{acmart}.
• For Word submissions, please use the linked single-column template.
• Authors should prepare their materials using numbered citations and references.

Submission Lengths

• LaTeX: 4 to 9 pages, double column, excluding references.
• Word: Approximately 8,000 words, including space for figures, tables, etc.

Anonymity Guidelines

• Remove all author and institution information.
• Remove any clues that would directly identify any of the authors (e.g., institution names, acknowledgments).
• Anonymize all PDF files, including metadata.
• Citations of the authors’ own published work must be in the third person and not traceable to the authors' identity. Example: "in [3], Mountain and River proposed..." is acceptable, whereas "in [3], we proposed..." is not. Reference [3] should be listed explicitly as “Mountain, A. and River, A., Detecting Mountains and Rivers, In Proc. XYZ ’16, 721-741.”
• Authors extending their own previous publications should upload these works in a special field in PCS.

Failure to comply with these requirements will result in automatic desk rejection.

Contribution Types

We invite various research contributions, including interactive systems. Reviewers will judge the novelty of new functionality enabled by a system, even if it leverages existing techniques. Replication studies are also accepted.

Supplementary Materials

• Optional materials (images, videos, documents) can accompany submissions.
• Total file size should not exceed 50MB.
• Content should be in portable formats (e.g., PDF, HTML, PNG, JPEG, QuickTime, MPEG).
• Accepted papers should stand on their own, with supplementary material providing additional information. Video references in papers are appropriate.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

• When designing and presenting user evaluations, consider using representative participant populations.
• If representative samples are not possible, discuss the limitations of the studied population in the paper and be cautious with claims.
• Report participant demographic information for user evaluations.

Accessibility

• Authors are asked to be inclusive.
• Provide alt-text for figures and tables.
• Make supplemental videos accessible with subtitles.
• Refer to SIGCHI Guidelines for an Accessible Submission and SIGCHI Technical Requirements and Guidelines for Videos.
• Contact VRST 2025 Accessibility Chairs at accessibility@vrst2025.org if you have difficulties.

Policies

• At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present their work in person. There will be no remote presentation opportunities.
• All standing ACM policies apply, including:
  • ACM Policy on Authorship (includes statements regarding generative AI)
  • ACM Policy on Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions
• Authors must obtain an ORCID ID for the publishing process.

Contact

• Email: papers2025@vrst.acm.org
• Contacts: Daniel Zielasko, Kangsoo Kim, Rick Skarbez