<div dir="ltr"><h1 id="gmail-cfp-3dui-contest" style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.2;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Segoe UI","Helvetica Neue","Lucida Grande",Arial,sans-serif;margin-top:0px;font-size:1.1em;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(6,101,105)"><span style="font-weight:normal" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-e0460c71-7fff-fdb8-be9e-2cfcede6cbf5"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;padding:15pt 0px 8pt;margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.15;font-family:Arial;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11pt">IEEE VR 2025: the 32</span><span style="font-size:11pt;vertical-align:super">nd</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces</span><br></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;padding:12pt 0px;margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;line-height:1.15">March 8-12, 2025, Saint-Malo, France<br><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2QqmHc62e6V_w0GItJhlhz7XX99yZvPQkiF4abrC454nZfg2YkAEBIEqzVPAIIM-vUXx0tTQXr3WU5Lsa08spPSC_z_Gngdh6aaMYpCBGXanMaBIByXnISRCpPMVBwhTd0W1gf2BzB3OJDHqHJX-DwCxRquWP6Ub5JOdssxUrY7_ZyLVwjRuCYFj_dWieriOROW2jUGkHi73Ff-GBhBkPj5uSov_VL59W9ShxveUByJShMeprjVtpF3N33PjcSLIxxFGmu5-za1z2AwNxdQqvRXMzcBnpXg" rel="nofollow" style="color:inherit;text-decoration:inherit">https://ieeevr.org/2025/</a></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;padding:12pt 0px;margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;line-height:1.15"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-weight:700">Important Dates </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:14pt">- All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE)</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;padding:12pt 0px;margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;line-height:1.15"><span style="font-weight:700;font-style:italic">Submission</span><span style="font-weight:700"> </span>of two-page abstract and video - January 13, 2025<br><span style="font-weight:700;font-style:italic">Notification </span>of which entries are accepted - January 21, 2025<br><span style="font-weight:700;font-style:italic">Camera-ready</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt"> version - January 28, 2025</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;padding:12pt 0px;margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;line-height:1.15"><span style="font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:14pt">Overview</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;padding:12pt 0px;margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;line-height:1.15;text-align:justify">This year, the IEEE VR conference will host the 16<span style="vertical-align:super">th</span> annual 3DUI Contest. It is open to anyone interested in 3D User Interfaces (3DUIs) and Virtual Reality, from researchers to students, enthusiasts, and professionals. The purpose of the contest is to stimulate innovative and creative solutions to challenging 3DUI problems. The topic of this year is <span style="font-weight:700">“</span><span style="font-weight:700">United</span><span style="font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt"> for Planet Earth: Promoting Environmental Sustainability in Collaborative Virtual Environments”.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;padding:12pt 0px;margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;line-height:1.15;text-align:justify"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt">Given the increasing importance of an ecologically friendly lifestyle, collaborative virtual environments provide a promising meeting platform to simulate real-world encounters without the need for physical travel. What’s more, meeting in an immersive 3D space offers a large variety of novel opportunities to educate oneself, teach each other, and explore the complex relationships that altogether affect today’s and tomorrow’s climate. This year’s 3DUI contest asks participants to suggest novel forms of teaching, understanding, and/or promoting environmental sustainability collaboratively as a team in Extended Reality (VR/AR/MR/XR). Participants are asked to propose a 3DUI project in which at least two collaborators can work on an environmental issue together.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;padding:12pt 0px;margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;line-height:1.15"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt">Submissions will be evaluated through the following criteria:</span></p><ol class="gmail-lst-kix_spfitvitgp31-0 gmail-start" start="1" style="list-style-type:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;text-transform:none;padding:0px;margin:0px"><li style="padding:12pt 0px 12pt 0pt;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.15;margin:0px 0px 0px 36pt;font-family:Arial;text-align:left"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt">1. Efficiency and convenience of user operations<br></span>2. Complexity of collaborative interaction<br>3. Novelty of the 3DUI design<br>4. Enjoyment and engagement (fun)</li></ol><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;padding:12pt 0px;margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;line-height:1.15;text-align:justify">Selected contestants will be required to provide a software demonstration of their solutions using the <span style="font-style:italic">OpenXR</span> standard, ensuring compatibility with consumer mixed-reality hardware.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;padding:12pt 0px;margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;line-height:1.15"><span style="font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:14pt">Eligibility</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;padding:12pt 0px;margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;line-height:1.15;text-align:justify">The 3DUI Contest is open to anyone interested in 3DUIs — researchers, students, hobbyists, professionals, or anyone else. Requirements for the selection and presentation are specified below.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;padding:12pt 0px;margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;line-height:1.15"><span style="font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:14pt">Rules</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;padding:12pt 0px;margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;line-height:1.15"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt">The submitted solutions should fulfill the following rules to be considered for acceptance and presentation during IEEE VR 2025:</span></p><ul class="gmail-lst-kix_a4dv5fas5k3w-0 gmail-start" style="list-style-type:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;text-transform:none;padding:0px;margin:0px"><li style="padding:12pt 0px 12pt 0pt;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.15;margin:0px 0px 0px 36pt;font-family:Arial;text-align:left"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt">Submissions should present a collaborative 3DUI solution, which …:</span></li></ul><ul class="gmail-lst-kix_a4dv5fas5k3w-1 gmail-start" style="list-style-type:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;text-transform:none;padding:0px;margin:0px"><li style="padding:12pt 0px 12pt 0pt;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.15;margin:0px 0px 0px 72pt;font-family:Arial;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:7pt"> </span>… covers the topics of <span style="font-weight:700">“</span><span style="font-weight:700">United</span><span style="font-weight:700"> for Planet Earth: Promoting Environmental Sustainability in Collaborative Virtual Environments”.</span><span style="font-size:7pt">  <br></span>… describes which 3DUI techniques have been created and/or extended.<br> <span style="font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">… is documented with a video (between 3 and 5 minutes) as well as a standalone executable.<br></span>… is compatible with the <span style="font-size:11pt;font-style:italic">OpenXR</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> standard (</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2e4IkOhsGfj3XYahlilYYPWaOarK9JtUzuINpLwo5c1Tbfg2YkAGUytqQjVeWxFGzQ08VsBh6nC7OQVKQPsb2PXgr6gpReOSLlaNNLDuM8OfnKY53F8ZL3WytSpOh-uefQmrYAjZJGK9zY9ZAEMw861zfI4-Z7JUVdN66YivIQcT_fExocUl-mFE2AH06oGTOyvPDEoBgUo0tyQdSnmsj7dqJ0xQ35PfMbsVFjQGEhiIqTWCi_sQJBYkjYXcyK5peUG4OCYSxw2A4w0IOURhXCoKqRo1mp4c" rel="nofollow" style="color:inherit;text-decoration:inherit">https://www.khronos.org/openxr/</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">)</span></li></ul><ul class="gmail-lst-kix_a4dv5fas5k3w-0" style="list-style-type:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;text-transform:none;padding:0px;margin:0px"><li style="padding:12pt 0px 12pt 0pt;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.15;margin:0px 0px 0px 36pt;font-family:Arial;text-align:left"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt">The developed collaborative 3DUI should …</span></li></ul><ul class="gmail-lst-kix_a4dv5fas5k3w-1 gmail-start" style="list-style-type:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;text-transform:none;padding:0px;margin:0px"><li style="padding:12pt 0px 12pt 0pt;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.15;margin:0px 0px 0px 72pt;font-family:Arial;text-align:left"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt">… be innovative and technically sound. <br></span>… provide high usability<br>… be aesthetically pleasing.<br>… be enjoyable and thought-provoking.</li></ul><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;padding:12pt 0px;margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;line-height:1.15"><span style="font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:14pt">Teams</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;padding:12pt 0px;margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;line-height:1.15">Teams of up to <span style="font-weight:700">ten people</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt"> may submit solutions.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;padding:12pt 0px;margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;line-height:1.15"><span style="font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:14pt">Paper</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;padding:12pt 0px;margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;line-height:1.15;text-align:justify"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt">Teams must submit a short paper of two pages, including a description of the solution, details about the software developed, a brief description of the closest related work and how the system is novel, and a description of how they iterated upon the design. If the submission is accepted, this paper will be included in the IEEE VR Conference proceedings as a two-page extended abstract describing the contest solution. Therefore, it must be formatted using the IEEE Computer Society format as specified for VR conference papers.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;padding:12pt 0px;margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;line-height:1.15"><span style="font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:14pt">Video</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;padding:12pt 0px;margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;line-height:1.15;text-align:justify">Teams will also submit a video that presents the solution to the public, including an explanation of the equipment, software, and interaction techniques used to solve the problem. If the submission is accepted, the video will be made publicly available. Videos should have a length of <span style="font-weight:700">between 3 and 5 minutes</span> and should include the title along with the names and affiliations of the contestants. The submitted file should be a high-quality compressed video with a size of no more than 300 MB and submitted directly via the submission system or via a link to an unlisted video on an online platform like <span style="font-style:italic">YouTube</span>.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;padding:12pt 0px;margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;line-height:1.15"><span style="font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:14pt">On-Site Demonstration</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;padding:12pt 0px;margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;line-height:1.15;text-align:justify">If the submission is accepted, authors will participate in a demo session at the conference, where they will showcase their work to the IEEE VR community. The winner of the contest will be determined at IEEE VR, for which various judges from the community will try out and rate the presented 3DUIs. The judging criteria are<span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"> </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt">novelty, usability, fun, and the relevance of the topic. Furthermore, we will offer an on-site voting platform for all conference attendees. The final score will be the combination of the expert judges’ scores and the audience scores.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;padding:12pt 0px;margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;line-height:1.15"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt">Please note that at least one author of each accepted work should be registered for the conference and present on-site during the dedicated 3DUI sessions.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;padding:12pt 0px;margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;line-height:1.15"><span style="font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:14pt">Submission of Abstract and Video - due January 13, 2025</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;padding:12pt 0px;margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;line-height:1.15;text-align:justify">Teams should submit their abstract paper and a high-quality video through the online submission system:<a href="https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2j5tmOHR5D3b3ZWtaJeQCNe-MRDrHoWpLONiRK3qD0DHdfg2YkAGlArswtQhZsadh_U-ASVuL3HvLzA8Jn6Com9aK8FoQClElgF_kHF0CzDMq8oNAS5qqzX2CuVCm_f6ShgmtZkZ3iqRiXsIwpeoorGVJuHxg2D7PRPcC7VnoGfTJs3HGToxRauGgnjSn9hZoRx71M9ibAykiUp7EzmrkV56Mw0VlqflKVNB0cYqKDfsEjEfadpghRNJDy_rDAaw60pGMhL8WWAQYmVTLCbo15pbHFShM30KmIbxUfGcs" rel="nofollow" style="color:inherit;text-decoration:inherit"> </a><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2EBk4mSVw415cNwjxaGVNp9A4onID7JttX69_HukCfIrffg2YkAGNwlVd3GDlNNpJHQUxju1Hn9Byg1smc_eCXeYVZdb-ivoZMlMqXqOskt4m9S4DpMuHYLmyelYfhHDJSPTdBBmvgAkDPKfvVx-eJAnMBB2uVO_tIMvNAGoNbPpEq9KrzJRxxRONyJxHCOKdiO2zURw_dzljT1m8U-0ZGiptQlJlufex5wfRWC0d3LZzwX-uf9Yg_lsEdvjA7LhRUIi0tSEickB3JNLURP99x0qPGuexGMbF1spYM9Okqw" rel="nofollow" style="color:inherit;text-decoration:inherit">https://new.precisionconference.com/~vr</a></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;padding:12pt 0px;margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;line-height:1.15;text-align:justify">Submissions must be in English and must be prepared in the IEEE Computer Society VGTC format (<span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2KblH0WWUCnkkxiKCg01txw2vMZ5-KVv_gaDchtfQQ0vhfg2YkAFZKARf3cqEOMR52nvvSUvYSdxjQYyiBeVgoUXY5LoTltnSZAkbSwd9JPQLTzqbCgBt8DDIeBFuFe-swRu9EMgHEQJ5I0dSvIuVpkjGikkt2aPzxjgpKWSBNa8lleh3FaEtgesBANuItCGUxUX87LNLkMKXGnokp5zGAV54xGR3EO6KkJmragxr_HvHL-uIEwbRIH4tFUysxa0px6nv9pN_GaUV6ptAO5uEZLQpjsEVQa8Ix3Vk_3MKJOwepikqXaV_sA" rel="nofollow" style="color:inherit;text-decoration:inherit">https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/publications/conference/</a></span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt">) and submitted as PDF. We highly encourage authors to use the provided LaTeX template. Authors who choose to use the Word template need to ensure that their PDF submission matches the format.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;padding:12pt 0px;margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;line-height:1.15"><span style="font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:14pt">Contact</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;padding:12pt 0px;margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;line-height:1.15">Feel free to contact us at <span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="mailto:contest2025@ieeevr.org" style="color:inherit;text-decoration:inherit">contest2025@ieeevr.org</a></span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt"> if you have any further questions.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;padding:12pt 0px;margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;line-height:1.15"><span style="font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:14pt">3DUI Contest Chairs</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;padding:12pt 0px;margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;line-height:1.15"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt">Jean-Rémy Chardonnet, Arts et Métiers Institute of Technology, France<br>Manuela Chessa, University of Genoa, Italy<br>Jean-Marie Normand, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France<br>Tim Weissker, RWTH Aachen University, Germany</span></p></span></h1></div>
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