The XII Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Reality (SVR 2010), traditionally sponsored by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC), is the major event on Virtual and Augmented Reality in Brazil, having stablished itself as an international scientific forum for the exchange of experience and knowledge among researchers, professionals, practitioners, students and developers concerned with research and development of virtual environments, virtual, augmented and mixed reality systems.

Stimulating, original and innovative research papers as well as case studies and applications in the general field of virtual and augmented reality should be submitted.

The Program Committee invites authors to contribute with the submissions of Tutorials Proposals on subjects related to programming languages tools, environments or theories, at graduate level, and of Technical Papers introducing original research results on the following topics (but are not limited to):

• Artificial life;
• Augmented and mixed reality;
• Collaborative virtual environments;
• Hardware graphics acceleration;
• Image based modeling and rendering;
• Innovative 3D input and output devices;
• Innovative 3D interaction techniques;
• Interactive modeling, rendering and animation;
• Internet-based 3D applications;
• Multimodal Interaction;
• Multi-resolution modeling and rendering;
• Networked virtual environments;
• Real-time simulation, animation and visualization;
• Real-time graphics techniques;
• Social, economical and technical impacts of virtual reality;
• Tele-collaboration and teleoperation;
• Video-based interaction;
• Virtual humans and avatars;
• Virtual and augmented reality applications in any area;
• Virtual and augmented reality for scientific visualization;
• Virtual and augmented reality system development;
• VRML, X3D and related web-based technologies.

	Download the flyer of the event (version A4 paper, English)
	Download the flyer of the event (version A4 paper, Brazilian Portuguese)

For more details about deadlines and important dates, click here.

Papers, written in English (preferentially) or Portuguese, must be submitted electronically using the IEEE CS Press 2-column 8.5 x 11-inch Proceedings format (click here to download it) and through the JEMS system:
- For full papers submission, click here.
- For short papers submission, click here.

Full papers must have a minimum of 6 (six) and a maximum of 10 (ten) pages. Short papers must have a minimum of 2 (two) and a maximum of 4 (four) pages. The authors' names and affiliations, as well as references that identify the authors should be removed from the submitted manuscript.

For more information, contact the technical minicourses chairs (substitute "at" with @, removing the blank spaces):
- Jauvane Cavalcante de Oliveira (jauvane at acm.org)
- Márcio Sarroglia Pinho (pinho at pucrs.br)

Download the list of accepted papers (.pdf file).

Minicourses aim at promoting abilities specialization, as well as amplifying participants' education/research perspectives. Therefore, SVR 2010 minicourse proposals should be planned aiming at presenting to the community current subjects (intermediary and advanced) related to the areas of Virtual and Augmented Reality.

Minicourses should be written in English or Portuguese. Authors may define their presentation layout and a topic based content for proposal acceptance. However, a full text must be submitted for a final acceptance. Accepted minicourses will be published as an e-book with ISBN. The proposals submitted will we evaluated b referees according to the relevance of subject, innovative aspects, previous minicourses presented at SVR, content and final text. The authors should write their contribution (final text) folowing the SBC book chapter, avaliable for downloading below.

Proposal submissions must follow the template at SVR2010 website and they must be sent by email to Liliane Machado (liliane at di.ufpb.br) with copy to Robson Siscoutto (robson at unic.br), and must contain [SVR-Minicourses] in the message's subject.

For more information, contact the technical minicourses chairs (substitute "at" with @, removing the blank spaces):
- Liliane dos Santos Machado (liliane at di.ufpb.br)
- Robson Augusto Siscoutto (robson at unic.br)

	Download the template of the minicourses (.pdf file).
	Download the template of the minicourses (.doc file).
	Download the template of the SBC book chapter for final text (.zip file).

The Pre-Symposium was first held in SVR 2004, and since then, its main goal was to offer a fast and comprehensive course on the main concepts and technologies of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. Its first presentation in 2004 has been very successful, leading to its continuity by CERV.

In the first edition, as well as in all of the other editions of the Pre-Symposium, the evaluations were very positive, and both the presented lectures as well as the generation of digital and printed material encouraged new researchers to work in the field.

The Virtual and Augmented Reality community is young, small and in constant evolution, and it needs to continue attracting more researchers to expand their scientific horizons. On other hand, the available information on the Internet contribute to attract new researchers and assist in their basic formation in the areas of Virtual and Augmented Reality. Summarizing, the professionals, researchers, educators and students already arrive at the event with a minimum base of knowledge in the areas.

Working on these both fronts, the Pre-Symposium chairs of SVR 2010 considered that this edition could focus on the event in an area which could attract more the local public. For this reason, the chairs propose for this edition as the main subject of the Pre-Symposium: interaction. It will be given priority for courses which, in addition to the basic concepts, bring to the public practical motivational experiences.

As in previous editions, we intend to generate a reference material composed by basic texts exploring the main concepts of interaction on Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality.

For more information, contact the technical minicourses chairs (substitute "at" with @, removing the blank spaces):
- José Remo Ferreira Brega (remo at fc.unesp.br)
- Judith Kelner (jk at cin.ufpe.br)

	Download the template of the Pre-Symposium (.pdf file).
	Download the template of the Pre-Symposium (.doc file).