All contributions not listed as lightning talks successfully passed a two-stage review process involving the workshop’s IPC and are published in the Proceedings of IEEE VR Workshops and Abstracts.
Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: A Conceptual Framework for Personalizing XR Navigation Based on Individual Capacity and Context
Jimin Rhim and Jong-In Lee
Demographic Influences on Balance-Based Locomotion in Virtual Reality
Michael Nelson and Christos Mousas
DataEcho: Reflective Telemetry Replay for Studying Navigation Strategy Refinement in XR
Atit Kharel, Mohammad Jahed Murad Sunny, and Aryabrata Basu
Exploring Perception and Avoidance Behavior toward Real and Virtual Humans in Outdoor Mixed Reality
Zhenhua Wu, Zhuohao Chen, and Christos Mousas
[Invited Lightning Talk]
You Have Arrived... Kind of: Investigating the Limits of Undetectable Destination Displacement During Teleportation
Laird, Taylor, Jasmine Joyce DeGuzman, Gerd Bruder, Carolina Cruz-Neira, and Dirk Reiners
Published in Proceedings of the 2025 31st ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, pp. 1-11. 2025
Challenges and Initial Ideas for Scaled Natural Jumping in Large Immersive Environments
Saadman Rahman, Nanjia Wang, and Frank Maurer
Learnability of Embodied Control Interfaces for Real-World 3D Navigation
Monica Perusquia-Hernandez, Felix Dollack, Alexander Marquardt, Akiko Hirai, Tiago Martins, Mai Otsuki, Takahisa Enomoto, Hiroo Iwata, and Kenji Suzuki
[Invited Lightning Talk]
The Design of a Grand Challenge to Model Human Spatial Cognition
Stephen Gilbert and Jonathan Kelly
[Invited Lightning Talk]
Discrete Virtual Rotation in Pointing vs. Leaning-Directed Steering Interfaces: A Uni vs. Bimanual Perspective
Daniel Zielasko, Maximilian Späth, and Matthias Wölwer
Published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2026
"Has Locomotion Research Reached Its Peak?”- Grand Challenges in Locomotion Research
Formation of Peer Groups for Lunch