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<div>Call for Papers: ICAT-EGVE 2026 - International Conference
on Artificial Reality and Telexistence & Eurographics
Symposium on Virtual Environments</div>
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<div><b>ICAT-EGVE 2026 :: Call for Papers</b><br>
September 30th to October 2nd, 2026 | Goiânia, Brazil<br>
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<div>The<b><a href="https://icat-egve2026.inf.ufg.br/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"> ICAT-EGVE 2026</a></b> conference
will be held between <b>September 30th and October 2nd, 2026</b>,
at the <b>Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), Goiânia,
Brazil. </b>The ICAT-EGVE is the merger of the 36th
International Conference on Artificial Reality and
Telexistence (ICAT 2026) and the 31st Eurographics Symposium
on Virtual Environments (EGVE 2026). Together, these are two
of the oldest international conferences in the world on
Artificial Reality and Virtual Environments.<br>
This year ICAT-EGVE will be colocated with three conferences
organized by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC): 28th
Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Reality (<a
href="https://svr.sbc.org.br/2026" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">SVR</a>); 39th Conference on
Graphics, Patterns and Images (<a
href="https://sibgrapi.sbc.org.br/2026" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">SIBGRAPI</a>), and 25th Brazilian
Symposium on Games and Digital Entertainment (<a
href="https://sbgames.org/sbgames2026" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">SBGames</a>).<br>
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<div><b><font size="4">Important Dates (All times: AoE)</font></b><br>
Paper (Short and Full):<br>
<ul>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><b>Abstract Submission
Deadline:</b> <b><u>May 25th, 2026 (Title and abstract
deadline)</u></b></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><b>Paper Submission Deadline:</b> May
31st, 2026 (Full submission deadline)</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><b>Paper Submission
Notification:</b> July 15th, 2026</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><b>Paper Camera Ready Deadline:</b> August
15th, 2026</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><b>Conference:</b> September
30th and October 2nd, 2026</li>
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<div><b><font size="4">Submissions</font></b><br>
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<div>We invite the submission of Papers, Posters, and
Demonstrations describing novel research ideas, work in
progress, recently completed work, preliminary results, or
unusual systems and applications. ICAT-EGVE 2026 seeks
inspiring submissions describing research, applications, or
systems in all areas of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality,
Mixed Reality, Telexistence, and 3D User Interfaces, e.g., the
following non-exhaustive list of more specific areas:</div>
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<ul>
<li style="margin-left:15px">3D interaction for VR/AR/MR</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">VR/AR/MR systems and toolkits</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">User studies and evaluation for
VR/AR/MR</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Telexistence, Telepresence, and
Teleimmersion</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Haptics, audio, and other
non-visual modalities</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Serious games and edutainment
using VR/AR/MR</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Presence, cognition,
perception, and embodiment in VR/AR/MR</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Novel devices (both input and
output) for VR/AR/MR, and haptics</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Multi-user and distributed
VR/AR/MR, Tele-immersion, and Telepresence</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Immersive projection
technologies and other advanced display technologies</li>
</ul>
<div>Submissions in other related areas are welcome too.<br>
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<div><font size="4"><b>Submission Guidelines</b></font><br>
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<div>The following are the guidelines for the submission of full
and short papers:<br>
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<ul>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Full papers must not exceed
eight (8) pages in length (excluding references).</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Short papers must not exceed
four (4) pages in length (excluding references).</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Both full and short papers must
be in English and should be formatted using the
Eurographics format.</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">ICAT-EGVE uses a double-blind
review process. Therefore, submissions should not contain
information (including citations and optional videos) that
unnecessarily identifies the authors or their institutions
or places of work. All papers must be submitted
electronically as a PDF. Authors are encouraged to submit
videos to aid the program committee in the review of their
submissions.</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">The conference uses the EG
submission tool. All submissions should be made through
the online submission system <a
href="https://srmv2.eg.org/COMFy/Conference/ICAT-EGVE_2026"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">SRMv2</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Submissions should be original,
unpublished work and should not be in submission to other
venues concurrently. Any dual submission will be rejected
outright without review.</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">For a policy regarding arXiv,
the following guidelines will be followed: <a
href="https://eg25.cs.ucl.ac.uk/main/arxiv-policy.html"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://eg25.cs.ucl.ac.uk/main/arxiv-policy.html</a></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">We accept submitting optional
supplemental material whose size is under 700MB (following
the double-blind review process).</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">All the details about
submission and the submission system link will be
available in the ICAT-EGVE website: <a
href="https://icat-egve2026.inf.ufg.br/" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://icat-egve2026.inf.ufg.br/</a></li>
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<div><b><font size="4">Submission of Posters and Demos</font></b><br>
Please note that there is a separate submission portal for our
Posters and Demos programme. For details, please see the Call
for Posters and Demos on the website.<br>
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<b><font size="4">Review and Publication</font></b><br>
<ul>
<li style="margin-left:15px">All accepted
Papers/Posters/Demos will be published in the <b>Eurographics
Digital Library</b> and presented interactively at the
conference.<br>
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<li style="margin-left:15px">All papers will be <a
href="https://www.eg.org/wp/eurographics-publications/"
moz-do-not-send="true">Gold Open Access</a>, and are <a
href="https://www.coalition-s.org/"
moz-do-not-send="true">Plan-S compliant</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">All Papers/Posters/Demos
submissions will undergo a double-blind review process and
be selected by the responsible chairs for presentation at
the conference based on the reviews.</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Upon acceptance, the
camera-ready version of the submission will be included in
the electronic proceedings, provided potential reviewer
comments are appropriately addressed.</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">A selection of the <b>best
papers at ICAT-EGVE 2026</b> will be invited to submit
an extended version (for peer review) in a <a
href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/computers-and-graphics"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Special Section
to the Computers & Graphics journal</a> after the
conference.</li>
</ul>
<div><b><font size="4">Venue and organization</font></b><br>
Goiânia, the capital of Goiás, is a vibrant and welcoming
city strategically located in the heart of Brazil. Known for
its modern architecture, vast green areas, and the creative
energy that drives its technology and innovation ecosystem,
the city stands out as one of the country's most promising
urban centers.</div>
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ICAT-EGVE 2026 is organized with the support and cooperation
of:<br>
<ul>
<li style="margin-left:15px">European Association for
Computer Graphics (Eurographics)</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">The Virtual Reality Society
of Japan (VRSJ)</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Brazilian Computer Society
(SBC)</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Universidade Federal Rural de
Pernambuco (UFRPE)</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Universidade Federal de
Pernambuco (UFPE)</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Universidade Federal de Goiás
(UFG)</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Voxar Labs, CIn, UFPE</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">AKCIT, UFG</li>
</ul>
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<div><b><font size="4">General Chairs</font></b><br>
<ul>
<li style="margin-left:15px">João Paulo Silva do Monte Lima
(Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Brazil)</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Francisco Paulo Magalhães
Simões (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil)</li>
</ul>
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<div><b><font size="4">Program Chairs</font></b><br>
<ul>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Alexandre de Siqueira,
University of Florida, United States</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Rebecca Fribourg, Ecole
Centrale de Nantes, France</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Satoshi Saga, Kumamoto
University, Japan</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Thiago Porcino, National
Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC), Brazil</li>
</ul>
<div>For any questions: <a
href="mailto:icat-egve2026@cin.ufpe.br" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true"> icat-egve2026@cin.ufpe.br</a></div>
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