Topics include:

• 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
  • VAMR technologies and techniques for human-robot interaction
  • VAMR for interaction with remote systems