Traditionally, Virtual and Augmented Reality have been conceived for purpose-built highly instrumented laboratories. However, the commercial release of consumer grade Virtual and Augmented Reality head-mounted displays has allowed a wider user base to experience VR and AR in everyday environments such as their own home or work environments. If consumer VR and AR is to evolve beyond the laboratory, a rethinking of the way we design and implement interactive VR and AR systems for these environments application scenarios is needed.
The WEVR workshop will cover “Everyday” Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality research themes in all those contexts and scenarios other than research laboratories and specialist environments.
This half-day workshop will bring together researchers and industry practitioners to explore these new challenges and define a new research agenda. We invite authors to submit 4-page position papers, preliminary research results, novel concepts or case studies (up to a maximum of 6 pages).
Atlanta, GA, USA (co-located with IEEE Virtual Reality 2020). The workshop will take place at the Marriott W-Midtown, in Atlanta, USA.
22 March 2020 (afternoon)
We invite submissions pertaining to the intersection between the following themes (but are not limited to) and “everyday” contexts of use such as user’s homes and offices.
Research works on the above themes that do not focus on everyday contexts are not suitable for this workshop.
Submissions must be anonymised and in PDF format, using the VGTC template. A committee of expert reviewers in the aforementioned domains will review all submissions.
At least one author per paper must register for the workshop as well as one day of the IEEE VR conference. Authors of accepted papers will be expected to give a 10 minutes presentation at the workshop. Proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Digital Library.
All papers will be reviewed by at least two domain experts. Review decisions will be final. The authors of accepted papers are then expected to resubmit a revised version taking into account the comments made in the reviews.
Papers that were rejected from IEEE VR and that fit the workshop themes can be resubmitted for special consideration at the workshop, until Friday 31 at Midnight AOE. In order to do so, please submit a revised version of the paper you submitted to IEEE VR via the Easychair website. Then please forward your IEEE VR meta-review and cover letter (max one A4 pages) to aria at cs.kuleuven.be using "WEVR [Submission ID]" as your subject. All papers who do not fulfil these conditions will not be considered.
In the cover letter, please describe how you addressed the points raised in the meta-review. Please note that papers have to fit within the 6 page limit.
Adalberto L. Simeone
KU Leuven, Belgium
Benjamin Weyers
University of Trier, Germany
Christoph W. Borst
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA, USA
Rob Lindeman
University of Canterbury, NZ
Please send any queries to Adalberto Simeone (adalberto.simeone at kuleuven.be).
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