Topics include:

• Applications
  • Consumer products and experience
  • Education and training
  • Entertainment
  • Gaming
  • History and culture
  • Industrial
  • Medical and healthcare
  • Military
  • Rehabilitation
  • Social computing
  • Virtual worlds and long-term persistent environments
• Interaction and navigation in VAMR
  • Avatar instantiation
  • Human factors
  • Immersion
  • Locomotion
  • Orientation and navigation
  • Teleoperation, puppeteering, and autonomy
  • Human-robot interaction and remote systems
• Issues in development and use of VAMR
  • Distributed environments
  • Embodiment
  • Fidelity
  • Occlusion
  • Performance measurement
  • Platform requirements
  • Presence in VAMR
    • Criteria and measurement
    • Design issues
  • Sensory and perception
  • Simulator sickness
  • Situational awareness
• Underlying & supporting technologies
  • Alternative computing environments
    • Wearable
    • Pervasive computing
  • CAVE and multi-participant environments
  • Head mounted displays
    • Field of view
    • Resolution
    • Rendering speed
    • Parallax and perspective
  • Mobile systems
  • Multimodal interfaces
  • Sensory substitution
  • Telepresence systems
  • Tracking technologies
  • Visualization and image rendering