VRST 2025: Call for Participation

The ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) 2025 will be held on November 12-14, 2025.

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

Topics

• 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

Important Dates

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

*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.

Submission Guidelines

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

• 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 (see https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow).
  • 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. See the TAPS webpage for guidance on how content length corresponds to the page limits for the final version.

Submission Lengths

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

Anonymity Guidelines

For initial Paper submissions, authors are asked to remove all author and institution information and remove any clues that would directly identify any of the authors.

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

Supplementary Materials

Submissions may be (optionally) accompanied by additional materials such as images, videos, or electronic documents. The total file size for supplementary materials should not exceed a total of 50MB.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

When designing and presenting user evaluations, consider using samples that are representative of the population for which the technology is being designed.

Accessibility

Provide alt-text for figures and tables and make supplemental videos accessible with subtitles to enable accessible reviewing. Contact the VRST 2025 Accessibility Chairs by emailing accessibility@vrst2025.org if you have any difficulties.

Policies

At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present their work in person at the conference.

All standing ACM policies apply to ACM VRST 2025, including:

• ACM Policy on Authorship (which also contains statements regarding the use of generative AI)
• ACM Policy on Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions

Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID.

Contact

papers2025@vrst.acm.org

• Daniel Zielasko, Trier University, Germany
• Kangsoo Kim, University of Calgary, Canada
• Rick Skarbez, La Trobe University, Australia