Call for Papers
Last updated: 2026-05-08
Important Dates
- Paper Abstracts Submission Due: Wednesday, June 17th, 2026 (required for full paper submission)
- Papers (all materials) Submission Due: Wednesday, June 24th, 2026
- Author Notification for Papers: Friday, August 28th, 2026
- Revised Papers Submission Due: Friday, September 4th, 2026
- Final Author Notification for Papers: Friday, September 11th, 2026
- Camera-Ready Papers Due: Friday, September 25th, 2026
- Conference: November 16th (Monday) – 18th (Wednesday), 2026
Topics
VRST 2026 welcomes paper submissions relating (but not limited) to the following XR areas:
- Display technology and interaction devices
- Low-latency and high-performance software and applications
- Multi-user and distributed XR
- XR software environments and authoring systems
- Interaction techniques
- Tracking and sensing
- Multimodal XR including haptics, smell, taste, and brain-computer interfaces
- Audio & music processing, sound synthesis, and sonification
- XR-related computer vision, computer graphics, and rendering techniques
- Immersive analytics
- Diversity and Inclusion in XR
- XR-related modeling and simulation techniques
- Avatars and virtual humans, virtual embodiment, and body-ownership illusions
- Teleoperation and telepresence
- Performance testing, user experience, and empirical studies
- Locomotion and navigation
- Perception, presence, and cognition
- XR applications, e.g. training, medical, fabrication
- Multi-disciplinary research projects involving innovative use of XR
Paper Submissions
VRST 2026 invites paper submissions on the topics listed above. All paper submissions must be in English and anonymous for a double-blind review process. All accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library in the VRST collection.
Submissions should be prepared using the Word or LaTeX templates from the official ACM Master article template packages and TAPS. LaTeX submissions should be in double-column format, 4 to 9 pages excluding references; Word submissions should be approximately 8,000 words including space for figures, tables, etc. The length of a paper should be commensurate with its contribution.
A paper abstract must be uploaded seven days prior to the paper submission deadline. All accepted submissions must be presented orally at the conference, with in-person presentation expected.
PCS Submission Management System
Please use the Precision Conferences System (PCS) to submit your work. After clicking the link below, please choose “SIGCHI” from the “Society” drop-down list, then “VRST 2026” from the “Conference/Journal” drop-down list. https://new.precisionconference.com/vrst2026/
Author Guidelines
Author guidelines are available on the VRST 2026 website: Author Guidelines.
Ethics and Responsibility
All submissions describing research experiments with human participants must follow the appropriate ethical guidelines required by the authors’ institution(s), and authors are required to secure and report their approval by the relevant ethics committee prior to collecting data. An approval by any ethical review board, if required by your institution, needs to be indicated via the submission system. Authors will be required to submit the name of the ethical review board, approved protocol title and number, and the date that ethical approval was obtained prior to running human participants. Authors must be able to provide proof of ethical approval upon request.
If the authors’ institution does not have a formal ethics review board, authors must explicitly state this and provide a detailed ethics statement describing how the study adhered to internationally accepted ethical standards (e.g., informed consent procedures, risk mitigation, and data protection practices). Additional documentation may be requested at the discretion of the program chairs.
Incorrect reporting of ethical approval will result in desk rejection.
ACM Publication Policies
By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM’s new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy. https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/research-involving-human-participants-and-subjects
Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID, so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper. ACM has been involved in ORCID from the start and we have recently made a commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published authors. The collection process has started and will roll out as a requirement throughout 2022. We are committed to improve author discoverability, ensure proper attribution and contribute to ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.
AUTHOR’S TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks before the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.)
ACM Open Access Policy and Instructions
Important update on ACM’s new open access publishing model for 2026 ACM Conferences! Starting January 1, 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. All ACM publications, including those from ACM-sponsored conferences, will be 100% Open Access. Authors will have two primary options for publishing Open Access articles with ACM: the ACM Open institutional model or by paying Article Processing Charges (APCs). With over 2,700+ institutions already part of ACM Open and with more institutions joining from around the world every week, the majority of ACM-sponsored conference papers will not require APCs from authors or conferences (currently, around 75% on average across all ACM-sponsored conferences).
Authors from institutions not participating in ACM Open will need to pay an APC to publish their papers, unless they qualify for a geographic or discretionary financial hardship waiver. To find out whether an APC applies to your article, please consult the list of participating institutions in ACM Open and review the Policy on Geographic APC Waivers and Discounts Policy and the Policy on Discretionary APC Waivers. Keep in mind that discretionary waivers are rare and are granted based on specific criteria set by ACM. Simply sending a message to ACM indicating an inability to pay an APC is typically an insufficient justification for such a waiver. Waivers are based on the specific circumstances of the author(s) requesting the waiver. ACM does take seriously into consideration the institutional affiliation of the authors and whether it is a reasonable expectation that their institution should be joining the ACM Open program. This is necessary for the long-term financial sustainability of the ACM Open model.
To support a smooth transition and encourage broader ACM Open participation, ACM has approved a temporary subsidy on APC pricing for 2026. The subsidy will offer:
| Authors | No ACM or SIG members | At least 1 ACM or SIG member |
|---|---|---|
|
ACM and SIG Sponsored Conference Article |
$350 |
$250 |
|
From a lower-middle-income country |
$175 |
$125 |
This represents a 65% discount off the regular APC list prices, funded directly by ACM. Authors are encouraged to help advocate for their institutions to join ACM Open during this transition period. This temporary subsidized pricing will apply to all conferences scheduled for 2026.
Contact
- Kazuyuki Fujita, Tohoku University, Japan
- Tham Piumsomboon, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
- Kangsoo Kim, University of Calgary, Canada
- Takefumi Hiraki, University of Tsukuba, Japan / Cluster Metaverse Lab, Japan