Topics include:

• System techniques, performance, and implementation


• System components
• Virtual reality platforms
• AI platforms for VR/AR
• Cloud-based platforms
• Data generation, manipulation, analysis, and validation
• Tracking
• Physical environment mapping
• Registration
• Vision for VR/AR
• Deep learning for VR/AR
• Standards and theoretical models for AI and/or VR



• Content creation and modelling


• Generation of immersive environments and virtual worlds
• Environments for gaming, simulation, training
• Visualization, optimized and realistic rendering
• Geometric modelling and design in immersive settings
• Animations
• Crowd-simulation
• Character modelling
• Customization and personalization (e.g., for training)



• Cognitive aspects, perception, user behaviour


• Semantic and cognitive aspects of virtual reality
• Depth perception
• Multimodal perception
• Behaviour and activity generation
• Representations of self (avatars)
• Embodiment
• Presence
• Virtual agents
• Conversational non-player characters (NPCs)
• Understanding and modelling human behaviour, emotions AI technologies
• Search
• Planning
• Reasoning
• Knowledge representation
• Natural language processing
• Robotics and perception
• Multi-agent systems
• Statistical learning
• Deep learning
• Soft Computing
• Intelligent computing techniques
• Any other AI techniques and their applications



• Interactions / interactive and responsive environments


• Multimodal interaction and experiences in VR/AR
• Machine learning for multimodal interaction
• Human-virtual user/agent interaction
• Human to human communication in virtual environments
• Collaboration and communication
• Dialogue modelling and generation
• Conversational and natural language interfaces
• Speech interaction for AR/VR
• Navigation and spatial orientation in VR
• Interaction devices
• Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI)



• Applications and case studies


• Data and knowledge representation
• Problem solving
• Spatial visualization
• Multimodality for visualization
• Visualization for domains
• Arts, leisure, and entertainment
• Gaming and game narratives
• Immersive storytelling and gameplay
• Education, training, simulation
• Business prototyping
• Business productivity
• Business process design, architecture and evaluation
• Telepresence and collaboration
• Social interactions
• Healthcare and therapy
• Evaluation metrics and methodologies
• Quality of Experience (QoE)