SVR 2020 Call for Papers and Deadline Extension

XXII Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Reality

The Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Reality (SVR) is the premier conference on VR/AR in Brazil. In 2020, SVR will be held between November 7 and 10. In order to preserve the safety and well-being of all participants, the decision has been made to hold SVR as a virtual conference.

The SVR aims to bring together researchers, promoting the exchange of experiences and facilitating interaction between research groups, creating better conditions for the development of new inter-institutional research groups, as well as acting as an instrument to disseminate the advances in Virtual and Augmented Reality in Brazil and the world.

SVR 2020 will occur together with three other major events:

• ISMAR 2020, the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality,

• SIBGRAPI’2020, the 33rd Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images, and

• SBGames 2020, the Symposium on Computer Games and Digital Entertainment.

Dates and Deadlines

• Main track (full and short papers) : July 15, 2020 (extended)

• Labs Presentation : August 03 (extended to August 10)

• XR Xperience : August 24

• Workshop of Undergraduate Works : August 23

• Workshop of Theses and Dissertations : July 20

• Pre-Symposium : August 31

Main Track (full and short papers)

SVR has 3 submission categories: Research Papers, Application/Case Studies & Review Papers. Each work will pass by a double-blinded peer-review process. Outstanding papers submitted will be invited to submit versions to a special session in the SBC Journal on Interactive Systems.

Detailed instructions for submission: https://svr2020.cin.ufpe.br/call-for-papers/

Labs Presentation

At this activity, demonstrations provide researchers, practitioners and companies the opportunity to present Virtual and Augmented Reality applications, techniques, experiments and devices throughout the event. Posters describe ongoing work with preliminary results. The theme of the poster must follow the conference orientation.

Detailed instructions for submission: https://svr2020.cin.ufpe.br/call-for-labs-presentation/

XR Xperience

XR Xperience are eXtended interactions, including some level of immersion into the virtual, augmented or mixed realities. Such experiences can include immersion in different areas such as marketing, education, entertainment, health, cinema, industry 4.0, virtual tours and so on. Premiere and innovative demonstrations of XR interactive systems and 360 videos will be showcased throughout the SVR online conference.

Detailed instructions for submission: https://svr2020.cin.ufpe.br/call-for-xr-experience/

Workshop of Undergraduate Works

This workshop aims to encourage the scientific initiation students and recent graduate researchers in the VR and AR areas to share and discuss their studies with the community. It seeks to stimulate the Virtual and Augmented Reality community to present works in the various interest topics of the SVR.

Detailed instructions for submission: https://svr2020.cin.ufpe.br/call-for-workshop-of-undergraduate-works/

Workshop of Theses and Dissertations

The WTD-SVR provides a unique opportunity for students to discuss their master’s dissertations and doctoral theses, allowing the preliminary work to be evaluated by researchers with expertise in the SVR topics of interest and benefiting from all the input gathered during the Workshop, which may lead to a improved work as result of interactions with experts.

Detailed instructions for submission: https://svr2020.cin.ufpe.br/wtd/

Pre-Symposium

The Pre-Symposium aims at presenting an overview of VR and AR in a book (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_frL7Hwmj75FLFCwwmsZYoEMG0CmRdwD/view), that is updated annually and has chapters with concepts, main characteristics of VR and AR systems, technologies (hardware and software) and applications. In this year, the event is an opportunity for researchers to add new chapters, presenting experiences in the use of VR and AR in other areas, such as the Internet of Things, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, among others.

Detailed instructions for submission: https://svr2020.cin.ufpe.br/call-for-pre-symposium-and-tutorials/

Program committee chairs

• Fátima Nunes, USP, Brazil

• Indira Thouvenin, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France

• Pablo Figueroa, UNIANDES, Colombia