ImmerCom 2026

Call for Papers

Immersive technologies such as virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR, AR, and MR), collectively referred to as extended reality (XR), have enabled a wide range of compelling applications in education, training, healthcare, entertainment, and scientific discovery. Recent advances in artificial intelligence are fundamentally reshaping XR, enabling intelligent content generation, real-time scene understanding, adaptive rendering, and more natural human–AI interaction. At the same time, emerging smartglasses platforms are accelerating the transition from lab prototypes to everyday wearable systems, bringing new opportunities as well as system and networking challenges.

These evolving applications often involve multiple geographically distributed users interacting and communicating over the Internet. Given its interdisciplinary nature, XR has been extensively studied in the computer graphics, computer vision, and human–computer interaction communities. However, the rise of AI-driven immersive content delivery, coupled with increasingly resource-constrained wearable devices, places significant demands on underlying systems and networks to deliver high-quality experiences in real time. These challenges are further amplified by the need for scalable, low-latency, and reliable communication, motivating new system and networking capabilities envisioned for future 6G networks.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers, engineers, practitioners, and policymakers from academia, industry, and government to discuss the latest advances and identify future opportunities in AI-driven XR. We solicit high-quality original research and novel developments that advance mobile XR systems, including AI-native architectures, smartglasses platforms, and next-generation networking solutions. We also welcome papers that summarize research challenges, survey existing solutions, and propose forward-looking approaches to address emerging issues in immersive computing.

Topics of Interest

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Algorithms, theories, tools, and testbeds for AR/VR/MR and AI-native XR systems
• Datasets, testbeds, and benchmarks for AR/VR/MR evaluation and AI-centric XR workloads
• Development/deployment challenges of 5G and emerging 6G networks for AR/VR/MR
• Edge computing, cloud-edge collaboration, digital twins, and embodied AI for AR/VR/MR
• Efficient visual sensing for augmentation and visualization on resource-constrained smartglasses
• Generative AI for XR content creation and immersive applications (e.g., real-time scene synthesis, avatars, and world models)
• Harassment detection and prevention in social and collaborative XR environments
• High-performance and scalable rendering for mobile, edge-assisted, and cloud XR systems
• Immersive media streaming for mobile devices and AI-driven content delivery pipelines
• Intelligent XR systems and applications with integrated multimodal foundation models
• Machine learning, data science, and foundation models for XR; decentralized systems
• Multimodal perception and understanding in XR (vision, audio, language, and interaction signals)
• Multi-user spatial synchronization and 6DoF pose prediction in AR/MR for large-scale, geo-distributed environments
• Novel applications of AR/VR/MR in education, entertainment, healthcare, training, etc., with AI-enhanced interaction and automation
• Personalized and adaptive XR experiences using AI and real-time inference at the edge (e.g., blockchain) where applicable
• Real-time communication and ultra-low-latency protocols for emerging immersive and human-AI interactive applications
• Security, privacy, and trust in AR/VR/MR, including AI-driven systems and data protection
• Scalability and heterogeneity of multi-user XR across devices (e.g., smartglasses, headsets, mobile) and networks

Best Paper Awards

All accepted regular papers by the workshop will be considered for the Best Paper Awards.

Important Dates

• Paper submission deadline: June 5th, 2026, AoE
• Paper acceptance notification: July 31st, 2026, AoE
• Camera-ready due: August 21st, 2026, AoE
• Workshop date: October 30th, 2026, Local Time