<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><h2 id="gmail-call-for-tutorials" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;line-height:1.1;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:30px;font-style:normal;font-weight:500;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">Call for Tutorials</h2><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box"><strong style="font-weight:bold;box-sizing:border-box">IEEE VR 2020: the 27th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces</strong></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">March 22-26, 2020, Atlanta, Georgia, USA</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box"><a style="color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration:none;box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent" href="https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1Hq7YtN0F5ozdTKqa5UIxcegrfouKuDoxHjwijz7Td2g-1941588608&key=YAMMID-12634258&link=http%3A%2F%2Fieeevr.org%2F2020%2F">http://ieeevr.org/2020/</a></p><h4 id="gmail-important-dates" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;line-height:1.1;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:500;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">Important Dates</h4><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box"><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><strong style="font-weight:bold;box-sizing:border-box">November 18, 2019</strong>: Tutorial submissions due</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><strong style="font-weight:bold;box-sizing:border-box">December 02, 2019</strong>: Initial notification (with review suggestions)</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><strong style="font-weight:bold;box-sizing:border-box">December 16, 2019</strong>: Final acceptance notification</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><strong style="font-weight:bold;box-sizing:border-box">January 12, 2020</strong>: Advance program descriptions for IEEE VR 2020 website due</li></ul><h4 id="gmail-overview" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;line-height:1.1;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:500;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">Overview</h4><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">Tutorials are an excellent opportunity to offer education in topics in our field for both novice and experienced researchers. We invite members of our community to submit proposals for half-day tutorials to be presented on Sunday, March 22, 2020. Please note that workshops will also be held on this day.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">Proposed tutorials may be introductory or advanced and should address topics of interest to the extended reality communities (virtual, mixed, or augmented reality), as well as the 3D user interface community. Proposals will be evaluated on their relevance to the conference topics, their suitability for presentation in a tutorial format, and the qualifications of the instructors. We will strive for a balance of topics in the tutorial program and also consider the potential for interest and attendance. Upon review of submitted proposals, suggestions may be provided by the Tutorials chairs to submitters on how to improve their submission. Suggested topics include but are not limited to:</p><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-se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