Authoring Immersive Media: from Assets to XR Experiences (AIM-XR)

Topics of Interest

Multiple application domains are considered, including but not limited to cinematic VR, industry, games, entertainment, healthcare, cultural heritage, education, etc. Moreover, VR-related technologies spanning the entire “virtuality continuum” can be considered. A non-exhaustive list of workshop topics is provided below.

Authoring tools and production pipelines

• Authoring tools and interfaces for non-programmers, including in-XR (immersive) authoring.

• Scenario and experience authoring for training, education, and serious games.

• Virtual production, real-time and in-engine production, and previsualization in XR.

• Collaborative, distributed, and low-cost production workflows.

From capture to media assets

• Turning reconstructions (photogrammetry, neural fields, Gaussian splats) into editable, animatable, and interactive assets.

• Scene editing, adaptation, and cleanup for immersive experiences.

• Neural and implicit shape representations for media creation.

• Performance and motion capture for media production.

Animation, characters, and real-time graphics

• Character modeling, rigging, facial and body animation.

• Performance-driven, physics-based, and procedural animation.

• Sketch-, gesture-, and multimodal interfaces for animation, and animation editing in immersive environments.

• Procedural modeling of environments, objects, and characters.

• Stylized and physically based real-time rendering, virtual cinematography, and real-time visual effects.

Designing the experience: narrative, games, and sound

• Cinematic VR, 360° and volumetric video production, and narrative design for spatial media.

• Directing attention and viewpoint as a design problem.

• Game design, serious games, and gamification as media-creation problems.

• Spatial audio, sound design, and multisensory or haptic effects as part of the media.

Evaluation

• Evaluating creator workflows: effort, control, learning curve, and production efficiency.

• Evaluating the resulting experiences: engagement, comprehension, and technical and creative quality.

• Reproducibility and documentation of production pipelines.