[Infovis] IEEE VR 2025 - CALL FOR 3DUI CONTEST ENTRIES

[IEEE VR Publicity]

IEEE VR 2025: the 32nd IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User
Interfaces

March 8-12, 2025, Saint-Malo, France
https://ieeevr.org/2025/
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Important Dates - All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE)

Submission of two-page abstract and video - January 13, 2025
Notification of which entries are accepted - January 21, 2025
Camera-ready version - January 28, 2025

Overview

This year, the IEEE VR conference will host the 16th annual 3DUI Contest.
It is open to anyone interested in 3D User Interfaces (3DUIs) and Virtual
Reality, from researchers to students, enthusiasts, and professionals. The
purpose of the contest is to stimulate innovative and creative solutions to
challenging 3DUI problems. The topic of this year is “United for Planet
Earth: Promoting Environmental Sustainability in Collaborative Virtual
Environments”.

Given the increasing importance of an ecologically friendly lifestyle,
collaborative virtual environments provide a promising meeting platform to
simulate real-world encounters without the need for physical travel. What’s
more, meeting in an immersive 3D space offers a large variety of novel
opportunities to educate oneself, teach each other, and explore the complex
relationships that altogether affect today’s and tomorrow’s climate. This
year’s 3DUI contest asks participants to suggest novel forms of teaching,
understanding, and/or promoting environmental sustainability
collaboratively as a team in Extended Reality (VR/AR/MR/XR). Participants
are asked to propose a 3DUI project in which at least two collaborators can
work on an environmental issue together.

Submissions will be evaluated through the following criteria:

   1. 1. Efficiency and convenience of user operations
   2. Complexity of collaborative interaction
   3. Novelty of the 3DUI design
   4. Enjoyment and engagement (fun)

Selected contestants will be required to provide a software demonstration
of their solutions using the OpenXR standard, ensuring compatibility with
consumer mixed-reality hardware.

Eligibility

The 3DUI Contest is open to anyone interested in 3DUIs — researchers,
students, hobbyists, professionals, or anyone else. Requirements for the
selection and presentation are specified below.

Rules

The submitted solutions should fulfill the following rules to be considered
for acceptance and presentation during IEEE VR 2025:

   - Submissions should present a collaborative 3DUI solution, which …:


   -  … covers the topics of “United for Planet Earth: Promoting
   Environmental Sustainability in Collaborative Virtual Environments”.
   … describes which 3DUI techniques have been created and/or extended.
    … is documented with a video (between 3 and 5 minutes) as well as a
   standalone executable.
   … is compatible with the OpenXR standard (https://www.khronos.org/openxr/
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   - The developed collaborative 3DUI should …


   - … be innovative and technically sound.
   … provide high usability
   … be aesthetically pleasing.
   … be enjoyable and thought-provoking.

Teams

Teams of up to ten people may submit solutions.

Paper

Teams must submit a short paper of two pages, including a description of
the solution, details about the software developed, a brief description of
the closest related work and how the system is novel, and a description of
how they iterated upon the design. If the submission is accepted, this
paper will be included in the IEEE VR Conference proceedings as a two-page
extended abstract describing the contest solution. Therefore, it must be
formatted using the IEEE Computer Society format as specified for VR
conference papers.

Video

Teams will also submit a video that presents the solution to the public,
including an explanation of the equipment, software, and interaction
techniques used to solve the problem. If the submission is accepted, the
video will be made publicly available. Videos should have a length of between
3 and 5 minutes and should include the title along with the names and
affiliations of the contestants. The submitted file should be a
high-quality compressed video with a size of no more than 300 MB and
submitted directly via the submission system or via a link to an unlisted
video on an online platform like YouTube.

On-Site Demonstration

If the submission is accepted, authors will participate in a demo session
at the conference, where they will showcase their work to the IEEE VR
community. The winner of the contest will be determined at IEEE VR, for
which various judges from the community will try out and rate the presented
3DUIs. The judging criteria are novelty, usability, fun, and the relevance
of the topic. Furthermore, we will offer an on-site voting platform for all
conference attendees. The final score will be the combination of the expert
judges’ scores and the audience scores.

Please note that at least one author of each accepted work should be
registered for the conference and present on-site during the dedicated 3DUI
sessions.

Submission of Abstract and Video - due January 13, 2025

Teams should submit their abstract paper and a high-quality video through
the online submission system:
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https://new.precisionconference.com/~vr
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Submissions must be in English and must be prepared in the IEEE Computer
Society VGTC format (https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/publications/conference/
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and submitted as PDF. We highly encourage authors to use the provided LaTeX
template. Authors who choose to use the Word template need to ensure that
their PDF submission matches the format.

Contact

Feel free to contact us at contest2025 at ieeevr.org if you have any further
questions.

3DUI Contest Chairs

Jean-Rémy Chardonnet, Arts et Métiers Institute of Technology, France
Manuela Chessa, University of Genoa, Italy
Jean-Marie Normand, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France
Tim Weissker, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
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