Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality

Indicative topics/keywords of the broad spectrum of issues to be addressed:

Applications
- History and culture
- Education
- Entertainment
- Consumer products
- Industrial
- Medical and healthcare
- Military
- Rehabilitation
- Virtual worlds and social computing
Interaction and navigation in VR and MR
- Avatar instantiation
- Immersion
- Orientation and navigation
- Teleoperation, puppeteering, and autonomy
Issues in development and use of VR and MR
- Distributed environments
- Embodiment
- Fidelity
- Performance measurement
- Platform requirements
- Presence in VR and MR
  - Criteria and measurement
  - Design issues
- Simulator sickness
- Situational awareness
Underlying & supporting technologies
- Display technologies
- Telepresence systems
- Mobile systems
- Alternative computing environments
  - Wearable
  - Pervasive computing
- CAVE and multi-participant environments
- Head mounted displays
  - Field of view
  - Resolution
  - Rendering speed
  - Parallax and perspective
- Long-term persistent environments
- Multimodal interfaces
- Sensory substitution
- Tracking VMR-relevant technologies
- Visualization and image rendering

Program Chairs:

Randall Shumaker,United States

Board Members: