In the 2025, the Academic & Research Track of United XR Europe – the 1st edition of the unification of AWE EU and Stereopsia – we aim to bring academia together with professionals from creative media and industry and offer XR professionals easier access to recent advances in applied research.

The conference is organised in a single track, focusing 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)

Product presentations are excluded.

Conditions and deadlines

We ask for a PDF document containing the following:

• 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 submitted proposals will be evaluated by an expert committee. Accepted presenters will receive a free ONE-DAY PASS (Day 2 – 9 Dec 2025) for United XR Europe 2025, plus discounts on other passes and options.

Deadlines

• Submission of presentation proposals: 15 September 2025
• Notification of acceptance: 15 October 2025
• Submission of presentations: 30 November 2025

Track Organisation

Dr. Oliver Schreer, Associate Professor TU Berlin, Head of Research Group at Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Germany
David Grogna, VR Expert, Cubic Space Technologies Inc., Belgium/Canada

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. 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