At the conference the researchers, practitioners and artists from both academia and industry who work in the broad fields of virtual reality and visualization technology will come together to exchange ideas, study development strategy, promote the commercialization of research findings, and work together to boost the development and application of virtual reality and visualization technology.

The conference will also invite renowned VR experts to give keynote speeches, hold exhibition for the latest scientific and technology achievements and provide a platform for the researchers as well as companies to show their products.

Sponsors:

l         VR committee of China Society of Image and Graphics

l         VR and Visualization Committee of China Computer Federation

l         VR Committee of the China System Simulation Association

l         IEEE Computer Society（to be finalized）

Paper Submission:

ICVRV categorizes accepted papers in the long (8 pages max) and short (6 pages max)  tracks, the difference of the two tracks are mainly contribution  size and not the importance/impace of contributions. All submitted papers will be subject to a blind review process by three TPC members. Authors do not need to choose the track at submission time. Papers must be in IEEE conference compliant format and submitted electronically at:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icvrv12

The Proceedings will be published by IEEE CPS, and the papers in the proceedings will be indexed by EI. The papers in the proceedings of ICVRV2011 have been indexed by EI. Selected papers will be recommended to journal publications including International Journal of Virtual Reality (English version) and Springer Transaction on Edutainment (EI).

General co-chairs：

l         Tom DeFanti, UCSD, USA

l         Zhigeng Pan, Hangzhou Normal University, China

l         Wei Wu, Beihang University, China

Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs:

l         Xun Luo, Qualcomm Inc.

l         Daniel Thalmann, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and EPFL, Switzerland

l         Daniel Acevedo, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Local Organization Co-Chairs：

l         Yong Tang, Yanshan University, China

l         Huagen Wan, Zhejiang University, China

Important Dates

l        Submission Deadline:  May 1th,2012

l        Notification of acceptance: June 15th, 2012

l         Final paper Submission: June 30th, 2012