Submissions for 2026 will soon be open

Due to the success of the 2025 edition, we aim to increase the number of accepted submissions by offering an extended format. The conference is organised in two tracks:

1. An oral track, on Tuesday, 8 December 2026, 9:00 - 13:00
2. A poster track, on Tuesday, 8 December 2026 PM, in a separate poster area in the main exhibition hall, close to the companies and startups of the XR industry.

Applicants are invited to indicate their preference for either an oral presentation or a poster presentation. However, the organisers reserve the right to make the final decision regarding the format of each accepted contribution, based on the overall programme balance and content fit.

The best submission will be awarded both an oral presentation and a poster.

The submission should focus on the following topics:

• Capture and creation of audio-visual immersive content
• Novel 3D rendering techniques for ultra-realistic content (including holography) and/or real-time rendering
• Advances in interactive sensors and rendering devices for virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), and extended reality (XR).
• Advances in novel input sensor systems for XR (haptics, tracking, biometrics etc)
• Advances in spatial computing
• Advances in interoperability for interactive technologies
• User experience considerations in design of XR (Sensory/Perceptual/Emotion sciences)
• Social and psychological aspects of VR (Avatars, embodiment, sense-of-agency, collaboration, etc)
• Use of XR for interpreting human data and behavioural insights (e.g., through VR assessments, cognitive modelling, or psychometric evaluation)

NB: Product presentations are excluded.

Conditions and deadlines

We ask for a pdf-document, which contains the following information:

• title of the presentation
• author names and affiliation
• a 500-word abstract addressing the scientific aim or technical approach, the methods, results and conclusion
• two (2) illustrations or figures describing the approach and content of the talk
• a statement on the novelty of the submission

All the submitted proposals for presentations will be evaluated by an expert committee. The authors of accepted submissions will receive a complimentary Speaker Pass (i.e. Full Pass) for UnitedXR Europe 2026.

Track Organisation

Dr. Oliver Schreer, Associate Professor TU Berlin, Head of Research Group at Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Germany
Dr. Jelle Demanet, Researcher and business developer emerging technologies at IMEC and Ghent University, Belgium
David Grogna, VR Expert, Cubic Space Technologies inc., Belgium

Scientific Committee

Dr. Carlo Campagnoli, Lecturer, School of Psychology of University of Leeds, United Kingdom, Head of Immersion, Cognition and Neuroscience (ICON) Research Group
Dr. Jelle Demanet, Researcher and business developer emerging technologies at IMEC and Ghent University, Belgium
Dr. Lene A. Hagen, Associate Professor of Optometry & Visual Science, University of South-Eastern Norway
Dr. Omar A. Niamut, Director of Science, TNO ICT, The Netherlands
Jan Pflüger, Consultant, advisXR, Germany
Dr. Artur Pilacinski, Researcher, Dept. of Neurotechnology, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Dr. Oliver Schreer, Associate Professor TU Berlin, Head of Research Group at Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Germany
Dr. Athanasia Symeonidou, Innovation Engineer - Medical XR, Materialise, Belgium
Georg Thallinger, Research Manager Smart Media Solutions, DIGITAL - The Institute for Information and Communication Technologies, JOANNEUM RESEARCH, Austria
Dr. Zerrin Yumak, Assistant Professor at the Human-Centered Computing Group, Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands