<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><a name="m_6731575029277660444_m_-3428109527865666094_OLE_LINK3">Apologies for cross-posting.</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><a name="m_6731575029277660444_m_-3428109527865666094_OLE_LINK3"><br></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Dear Colleagues,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 2027 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR 2027), which will take place in <b>Melbourne, Australia, from February 27 to March 3, 2027</b>.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">IEEE VR is a premier international venue for research in virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, and 3D user interfaces. We invite original, high-quality research contributions covering methodological, technical, application, and system advances in these areas.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">IEEE VR 2027 will use a single submission deadline and a unified review process for both IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) papers and conference papers.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Possible review outcomes are:</p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span>Acceptance as an IEEE TVCG paper, with presentation at IEEE VR 2027</p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span>Acceptance as an IEEE VR 2027 conference paper, with presentation at the conference</p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span>Rejection</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Key Dates</p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span>Abstract submission (required): <b>August 24, 2026</b></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span>Paper submission: <b>August 31, 2026</b></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span>Initial notification: <b>November 30, 2026</b></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span>Revised submission: <b>December 31, 2026</b></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span>Final notification: <b>January 7, 2027</b></p><p style="margin:0cm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t-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span>Embodied agents, virtual humans, and avatars</p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span>Cybersickness, locomotion, and navigation</p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span>Human factors, perception, cognition, and ergonomics</p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span>Presence, body ownership, and agency</p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span>Haptic, audio, multimodal, and multisensory interfaces</p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span>Collaborative and multi-user immersive systems</p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span>Immersive analytics, visualization, applications, and games</p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span>Software architectures, toolkits, and engineering</p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span>Tracking, sensing, input devices, and display technologies</p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span>Ethical, diversity, inclusion, and responsible research issues</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Submissions involving human participants must comply with the authors’ institutional ethics requirements. Authors must report the relevant ethics approval or clearly explain why formal ethical review was not required.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">All accepted papers must be presented orally at the conference. In-person presentation is expected, with online presentation accommodated only in exceptional circumstances.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent">Submission system:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><a href="https://new.precisionconference.com/vr27a" target="_blank">https://new.precisionconference.com/vr27a</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Call for Papers and submission information:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><a href="https://ieeevr.org/2027/contribute/papers/" target="_blank">https://ieeevr.org/2027/contribute/papers/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Inquiries:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:paper2027@ieeevr.org" target="_blank">paper2027@ieeevr.org</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:18.4px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:14.95px;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><a name="m_6731575029277660444_m_-3428109527865666094_OLE_LINK4">Best regards,</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:14.95px;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Yi (Owen) Wang</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:14.95px;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">IEEE VR 2027 Publicity Chair</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:14.95px;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">On behalf of the IEEE VR 2027 Papers Chairs</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:14.95px;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:14.95px;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">IEEE VR 2027 Papers Chairs</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:14.95px;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Lonni Besançon, Linköping University, Sweden</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:14.95px;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Gerd Bruder, University of Central Florida, United States</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:14.95px;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Shohei Mori, University of Stuttgart, Germany</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:14.95px;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Misha Sra, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:14.95px;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Xubo Yang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China</p></div>