Moscone West
San Francisco, California, United States
7 - 9 March 2021
San Francisco, California, United States
7 - 9 March 2021
Optical Architectures for Displays and Sensing in Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed Reality (AR, VR, MR)
Sunday 7 March 2021 Conference Committee
Sunday 7 March 2021 Conference Committee
This conference has an open call for papers:
submit an abstract
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Submission guidelines for Authors and Presenters
submit an abstract
(sign in required)
Submission guidelines for Authors and Presenters
Important Dates
Abstract Due:
9 September 2020
Author Notification:
16 November 2020
Manuscript Due Date:
16 February 2021
9 September 2020
Author Notification:
16 November 2020
Manuscript Due Date:
16 February 2021
Call for
Papers
Papers
Augmented reality (AR), Virtual reality (VR) and Mixed reality (MR) are poised to become the next computing and communication platforms, replacing desktops and laptops devices, and even the now-aging tablets and smartphones.
The current Covid-19 pandemic situation emphasizes today more than ever the need for better communication tools, with experiences similar to real social interactions, as working groups in enterprise or as friends holding a virtual get-together: AR, VR and MR have the potential to revolutionize how we communicate, work, learn, shop, get entertained in the near future, and help us adapt to the new norm in our post Covid-19 lives, both privately and professionally.
To get to the ultimate experience of spatial computing, various improvements in comfort (wearable and visual) and display immersion need to take place. Such optical challenges can be addressed through an optical design procedure that puts the human visual system at its core. The complexity of the optical hardware, software and content structure can thus be reduced, without degrading the user’s display immersion and comfort experience.
The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers and engineers from academia and industry to discuss recent developments in this rapidly advancing field. Papers can include research in any optical system, subsystem, or technological building block to enhance the AR, VR, or MR experience in a Head Mounted Display (HMD).
The following topics are emerging today as very hot topics in academia, research institutions, and industry, as well as in the venture capital community. Researchers, engineers, managers, industry leaders, as well as market analysts are welcome to share their knowledge and experience and be part of the ongoing digital optics revolution.
Suggested topics include:
Note: If you are submitting a paper to SPIE Photonics West that is relevant to AR/VR/MR, please email Event Manager, Pamela Robertson (pamelar@spie.org) and Conference Program Coordinator, Kirsten Anderson (kirstena@spie.org) to discuss the option of presenting in both symposia.
The current Covid-19 pandemic situation emphasizes today more than ever the need for better communication tools, with experiences similar to real social interactions, as working groups in enterprise or as friends holding a virtual get-together: AR, VR and MR have the potential to revolutionize how we communicate, work, learn, shop, get entertained in the near future, and help us adapt to the new norm in our post Covid-19 lives, both privately and professionally.
To get to the ultimate experience of spatial computing, various improvements in comfort (wearable and visual) and display immersion need to take place. Such optical challenges can be addressed through an optical design procedure that puts the human visual system at its core. The complexity of the optical hardware, software and content structure can thus be reduced, without degrading the user’s display immersion and comfort experience.
The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers and engineers from academia and industry to discuss recent developments in this rapidly advancing field. Papers can include research in any optical system, subsystem, or technological building block to enhance the AR, VR, or MR experience in a Head Mounted Display (HMD).
The following topics are emerging today as very hot topics in academia, research institutions, and industry, as well as in the venture capital community. Researchers, engineers, managers, industry leaders, as well as market analysts are welcome to share their knowledge and experience and be part of the ongoing digital optics revolution.
Suggested topics include:
- novel imaging systems (imaging on silicon sensors: sensors include head tracking, eye tracking, gesture sensing, spatial mapping, etc.)
- novel display engines (technologies enabling immersive display)
- combiner optics and related architectures (free space, lightguide, waveguide, etc.)
- 3D display techniques, technologies and architectures (varifocal, multifocal, lightfield, holographic, volumetric, etc.)
- human perception and user experience in immersive displays
- optical sensors for eye, gaze, pupil, and vergence tracking
- optical sensors for depth mapping and gesture sensing (stereo, structured illumination, TOF, etc.)
- optical sensors for 6DOF head tracking and SLAM-relocalization
- nanophotonics for AR/VR/MR applications
Note: If you are submitting a paper to SPIE Photonics West that is relevant to AR/VR/MR, please email Event Manager, Pamela Robertson (pamelar@spie.org) and Conference Program Coordinator, Kirsten Anderson (kirstena@spie.org) to discuss the option of presenting in both symposia.
This conference has an open call for papers:
submit an abstract
(sign in required)
Submission guidelines for Authors and Presenters
submit an abstract
(sign in required)
Submission guidelines for Authors and Presenters
Conference Committee
Conference Chairs
Program Committee
- Bernard C. Kress, Microsoft Corp. (United States)
- Christophe Peroz, Magic Leap, Inc. (United States)
Program Committee
- Martin S. Banks, Univ. of California, Berkeley (United States)
- Pablo Benítez, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)
- Julie L. Bentley, Univ. of Rochester (United States)
- Michael P. Browne, SA Photonics, Inc. (United States)
- Weichuan Gao, Facebook Technologies, LLC (United States)
- Andreas G. Georgiou, Microsoft Research Cambridge (United Kingdom)
Program Committee continued...
- Hong Hua, College of Optical Sciences, The Univ. of Arizona (United States)
- Mary Lou Jepsen, Openwater (United States)
- Fernando Mendoza-Santoyo, Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica, A.C. (Mexico)
- Maria Pace, Microsoft Corp. (United States)
- Yifan (Evan) Peng, Stanford Univ. (United States)
- Jannick P. Rolland, The Institute of Optics (United States)
- Zhujun Shi, Harvard Univ. (United States)
