[Ieee_vis] [Reminder] Abstracts due Sept 5 AoE: IEEE VR 2026 Call for Papers

[ieeevrpublicity at gmail.com]

*IEEE VR 2026: the 33rd IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User
Interfaces*
*March 21-25, 2026 | Daegu, Korea*
https://ieeevr.org/2026/contribute/papers/

*Overview*
IEEE VR 2026 seeks original, high-quality papers in all areas related to
virtual reality (VR), including augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR),
and 3D user interfaces (3DUIs). This year there is again a SINGLE
submission deadline for a unified review process for both the IEEE TVCG and
the conference-only papers. The possible outcomes of this unified process
are:

   1. Accept as IEEE TVCG paper, with presentation at IEEE VR 2026
   2. Accept as IEEE VR 2026 conference paper, with presentation at IEEE VR
   2026
   3. Reject

*Inquiries*: program2026 at ieeevr.org

*New this year*: Papers will not have the option to be automatically
accepted as IEEE VR Posters. Rather, authors of rejected papers will have
to submit directly to the poster track.

*New this year*: All senior (PhD-holding) authors should familiarize
themselves with the IEEE VR 2026 reviewing guidelines [LINK TO COME].
Unless serving IEEE VR 2026 in another capacity, ALL SENIOR AUTHORS are
expected to volunteer as reviewers and perform their duties in a timely and
responsive fashion. This supersedes the prior requirement that one author
for each paper commit to reviewing; if a paper has multiple senior
co-authors, all are expected to volunteer. Egregious violations of this
policy may be considered Highly Irresponsible Conduct, which could result
in penalties up to and including desk rejection of their submitted paper(s).

*Submissions will be accepted through Precision Conference Solutions this
year. The PCS will open around mid Aug 2025:*
*https://new.precisionconference.com/vr26a*
<https://new.precisionconference.com/vr26a>

*Important Dates*
Each deadline is 23:59:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) == GMT/UTC-12:00 on the
stated day, no matter where the submitter is located. The submission
deadlines will be strictly enforced. Requests for extensions will not be
honored.

   - *September 05, 2025*: Abstracts due (REQUIRED)
   - *September 12, 2025*: Submissions due
   - *December 12, 2025*: Initial notifications
   - *January 16, 2026*: Revised submissions due
   - *January 23, 2026*: Final notifications
   - *January 30, 2026*: Camera-ready materials due


*Submission Guidelines*
*IMPORTANT*: IEEE VR 2026 uses a *DOUBLE-BLIND* review process. Failure to
anonymize submissions will result in *DESK REJECTION*.

Each research paper should provide a contribution covering one or more of
the following categories: methodological, technical, applications, and
systems.

   - *Methodological papers* should describe advances in theories and
   methods of AR/VR/MR and 3DUI, such as ethical issues, theories on presence,
   or human factors.
   - *Technical papers *should describe advancements in algorithms or
   devices critical to AR/VR/MR and 3DUI development such as input, display,
   user interaction, or tracking.
   - *Application papers* provide an important insight to the community by
   explaining how the authors built upon existing ideas and applied them to
   solve an interesting problem in a novel way. Each paper should include an
   evaluation of the success of the use of AR/VR/MR and/or 3DUI in the given
   application domain.
   - *System papers *should indicate how the developers integrated
   techniques and technologies to produce an effective system, and convey any
   lessons learned in the process.

Each paper should include an evaluation of its contributions, such as user
studies, benchmarking and/or comparison with existing
systems/techniques/methods.

   - *Format*: Papers must be strictly formatted according to IEEE VGTC
   conference submission guidelines and submitted electronically as PDF
   documents.
      - All paper submissions must be formatted using the IEEE Computer
      Society VGTC conference format (
      https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/publications/conference/). See the
      visual examples below.
         - *MS Word template*: At the time of writing this CFP, the
         provided .docx file may not comply with the VR formatting guidelines.
         Please use the provided .dotx file and ensure that the final
submission
         matches the formatting guidelines or the paper may be desk
rejected. Check
         the provided sample pdf documents for correct formatting.
      - Papers should be 4-9 pages of text, figures, and tables, but NOT
      including references. References should not exceed 2 pages in
length. Note
      that the minimum length is 4 full pages of text. Appendices are
included in
      the page count.
      - Supplementary materials should be provided in a separate file.
      Authors are encouraged to submit videos to aid the program committee in
      reviewing their submissions.
      - Accepted papers will have to be formatted by the authors according
      to the relevant camera-ready guidelines.

*Topics*
IEEE VR 2026 seeks contributions in VR/AR/MR and 3DUI including, but not
limited to, the following topics:

   - 360° video
   - 3D and volumetric display and projection technology
   - 3D authoring
   - 3D user interfaces
   - Accessibility of immersive interfaces
   - Audio interfaces and rendering
   - Collaborative interactions
   - Computer graphics techniques
   - Crowd simulation
   - Cybersickness
   - Diversity and gender issues
   - Embodied agents, virtual humans, and (self-)avatars
   - Ethical issues
   - Evaluation methods
   - Haptic interfaces and rendering
   - Human factors and ergonomics
   - Immersive analytics and visualization
   - Immersive applications and games
   - Input devices
   - Locomotion and navigation
   - Mediated and diminished reality
   - Mobile, desktop, or hybrid 3DUIs
   - Modeling and simulation
   - Multi-user and distributed systems
   - Multimodal capturing and reconstruction
   - Multimodal/cross-modal interaction and perception
   - Multisensory interfaces and rendering
   - Perception and cognition
   - Presence, body ownership, and agency
   - Redirection
   - Software architectures, toolkits, and engineering
   - Teleoperation and telepresence
   - Therapy and rehabilitation
   - Touch, tangible, and gesture interfaces
   - Tracking and sensing
   - User experience and usability
   - XR technology infrastructure

While no list can be exhaustive, papers should, as a rule of thumb, engage
meaningfully with existing literature in VR/AR/MR/3DUI. If a submission
contains few or no references to this literature (focusing entirely on, for
example, computer vision or computer graphics), that submission might not
be appropriate for IEEE VR and may be desk rejected.

*Review Process*
The review process will have two cycles.

*Review Cycle I (Submission to Initial Notification)*
Submissions will be assigned to two members of the VR 2026 International
Program Committee (IPC): a coordinator (primary) and a secondary reviewer.
Submissions that violate the submission guidelines or that receive low
review scores from both the coordinator and the secondary reviewer will be
rejected early. This stage of the review process will be double blind. We
will strive to have all other submissions receive a total of at least three
reviews. Based on the reviews and in consultation with a subset of the IPC,
the Program Chairs will make one of the following initial recommendations
for each submission:

   - *Conditionally accept as IEEE TVCG paper*. Continuing our cooperation
   with the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG),
   the top submissions will be considered for publication in a special issue
   of IEEE TVCG.
   - *Conditionally accept as conference paper.* These submissions will be
   considered for inclusion in the Proceedings of IEEE VR, archived in the
   IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
   - *Reject.*


*Review Cycle II (Initial notification to Final decision)*
Each conditionally accepted paper's revision will be reviewed by its
coordinator, who will make a final recommendation to the Program Chairs
regarding acceptance. If the conditions for acceptance are not met, the
paper will be rejected.


*Additional Guidelines*
*Abstract Submission*
Note that a paper abstract must be uploaded seven days prior to the actual
paper submission deadline. This facilitates the process of assigning
reviewers, as the review process operates on a very tight schedule.

*Ethics and Responsibility*
All submissions describing research experiments with human participants
must follow the appropriate ethical guidelines required by the authors'
institution(s), and authors are required to secure and report their
approval by the relevant ethics committee prior to collecting data. An
approval by any ethical review board, if required by your institution,
needs to be indicated via the submission system. Authors will be required
to submit the name of the ethical review board, approved protocol title and
number, and the date that ethical approval was obtained prior to running
human participants. Authors must be able to provide proof of ethical
approval upon request. Incorrect reporting of ethical approval will result
in desk rejection.

*Participant Diversity*
To support high-quality research, all submissions describing research with
human participants should strive for participant diversity. As first steps
toward this goal, VR 2026 is encouraging the following:

   - Research that aims to benefit a general population should be
   representative of that population. (e.g., balanced across gender or age).
   Research that claims to benefit a specific population should clearly state
   and justify its focus on that population (e.g., pilots, surgeons).
   - All submissions must report participant demographics (gender, age,
   etc.).

Notes about recruiting representative populations:

   - Recruiting more diverse samples does not imply that the research must
   treat these data as independent variables and analyze differences in
   independent variables between demographic groups.
   - Recruiting more diverse samples does not increase the number of
   participants required for adequate statistical power given an effect size.
   - Many ethics review boards and funding sources already require
   participant diversity for inclusive and unbiased research.

The VR 2026 program committee and external reviewers will be strongly
encouraged to consider participant diversity in relation to the generality
of a submission's claims as a first-order reviewing concern. Submissions
that make general claims yet rely on a severely imbalanced participant
group may be negatively impacted by the reviewing process.

*Review Duties for Authors*
The increasing number of submissions for IEEE VR makes us all dependent on
a large number of good reviewers who are willing to provide constructive
feedback and engage with authors on their work. Every paper needs three
quality reviews. To expand the reviewing pool and to promote quality
reviews, for each submitted paper, each senior author will be required to
register to review at least one paper through PCS at the time of submission
- although more would obviously be welcome. Additionally, senior authors
are encouraged to ask experienced junior authors to register in PCS to
review papers, and then to mentor the experienced junior authors during the
review process.

*Presentation at the Conference*
All accepted submissions must be presented orally at the conference. An
in-person presentation is expected, and online presentations will be
accommodated only in exceptional cases. Requests for online presentations
due to exceptional cases must be made at least one month before the
conference.

*Submission Language*
All paper submissions must be in English.

*Previous Publication and Plagiarism*
Submitted manuscripts must not have been previously published. A manuscript
is considered to have been previously published if it has appeared in a
peer-reviewed journal, magazine, book, or meeting proceedings that is
reliably and permanently available afterward in print or electronic form to
non-attendees, regardless of the language of that publication. A manuscript
identical or substantially similar in content (in its entirety or in part)
to one submitted to VR should not be simultaneously under consideration for
another conference or journal during any part of the VR review process,
from the submission deadline until notifications of decisions are emailed
to authors.

In some situations, a submission may build upon prior work. In order to
fully explain the relationship between the submitted paper and prior work,
authors may upload additional papers as well as a non-anonymous letter of
explanation that highlights the significant changes or advances; these
materials will only be seen by the primary reviewer. Specifically, this
treatment is applied to the following cases:

   - non-peer-reviewed works that are publicly available (on arXiv, as a
   technical report, etc.)
   - non-archival publications presented in past IEEE VR conferences
   (posters, demos, etc.)

Submissions will be checked for plagiarism using IEEE Crosscheck. Detection
of significant plagiarism will lead to rejection. For more information
about definitions of plagiarism and IEEE policies in this area, please see
the I Introduction to the Guidelines for Handling Plagiarism Complaints
<https://www.ieee.org/publications/rights/plagiarism/plagiarism.html> and
the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board Operations Manual
<http://www.ieee.org/documents/opsmanual.pdf>.

*AI-generated Text*
In accordance with IEEE guidelines
<https://open.ieee.org/author-guidelines-for-artificial-intelligence-ai-generated-text/>,
the use of content generated by artificial intelligence (AI) in an article
(including but not limited to text, figures, images, and code) shall be
disclosed in the acknowledgments section of any article submitted to an
IEEE publication. The AI system used shall be identified, and specific
sections of the article that use AI-generated content shall be identified
and accompanied by a brief explanation regarding the level at which the AI
system was used to generate the content.

*Submission Anonymity*

** IEEE VR uses a DOUBLE-BLIND review process **
This means that both the authors and the reviewers must remain anonymous to
each other. Submissions (including citations and optional videos) must not
contain information that identifies the authors, their institutions,
funding sources, or their places of work. Relevant previous work by the
authors must be cited in the third person to preserve anonymity (exceptions
were described above). Authors should work diligently to ensure that their
submissions do not expose their identities either intentionally or through
carelessness. Authors who have questions/issues around the double-blind
submission policy should contact the program chairs.


** Failure to adhere to the double-blind policy will result in desk
rejection. **
*Pre-dissemination through public online repositories*
Uploading the submitted manuscript to an online repository (e.g., arXiv)
before the end of the review process does not constitute a reason for
rejecting the manuscript. However, the authors should be advised that doing
so can compromise the anonymity of their manuscript and therefore bias its
double-blind review.

*Videos*

Videos must be submitted according to the instructions on the submission
website. Videos submitted with papers will automatically be considered for
possible inclusion in the video proceedings (video submissions may also be
made independently, as described in the separate Call for Videos). When
submitted as supporting material, videos must be free of any identifying
information prior to reviewing as per the double-blind submission policy.
If accepted for the video proceedings, a revised version of the materials
will be requested.

*Contacts*
*Technical Papers Chairs:*

   - Lonni Besançon, Linköping University, Sweden
   - Bobby Bodenheimer, Vanderbilt University, United States
   - Daisuke Iwai, University of Osaka, Japan
   - Shohei Mori, University of Stuttgart, Germany
   - Tabitha Peck, Davidson College, United States
   - Richard Skarbez, La Trobe University, Australia

program2026 at ieeevr.org
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