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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>Message body:</b></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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            moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://icat-egve2026.inf.ufg.br/</a></div>
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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>
          </ul>
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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>
          </div>
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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>
          </ul>
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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>
          <br>
          <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>
            </li>
            <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>
          <div> <br>
            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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