
Workshop Motivation & Scope
The Standardization Committee at ISMAR 2025 has been established to strengthen the continuous collaboration between academic research and standardization efforts, with the goal of enhancing the value of both. By promoting the development and dissemination of coherent, widely adopted standards along with standardized tools, methodologies, datasets, and benchmarks, these efforts aim not only to ensure rigor and interoperability across XR domains, but also to bridge the persistent gap between academic inquiry and social implementation. XRStand: 1st International Workshop on Standardization in XR has been designed as a concrete initiative to advance the mission and vision of the ISMAR 2025 Standardization Committee. This workshop welcomes contributions and discussions related to a broad interpretation of standardization in XR. We aim to highlight not only formal standardization initiatives, but also community-driven efforts, tool development, and conceptual frameworks that support the advancement and social implementation of immersive technologies.
The XRStand 2025 workshop welcomes participation from:
- Academics & Researchers, who wish to expand and elaborate their research by gaining insights from standardization and industrial applications.
- Industry Practitioners & Innovators, who wish to contribute to the development of industry standards necessary for practical work while gaining exposure to the latest practical research presented at ISMAR.
- Standardization Organizations & Consortia, who wish to gain knowledge of academic breakthroughs, the current state of prototype system implementations, and evaluation results in real-world scenarios at ISMAR to make their standards and standardization activities more beneficial.
For any questions or additional details, please send an email to M-ismar-standard-ml@aist.go.jp.
Location and Date
The XRStand 2025 workshop will be held in conjunction with ISMAR 2025 in October 2025 as a hybrid event at Daejeon, South Korea. The workshop will occur on Wednesday October 8th, 2025.
Important Dates
- Paper Submission Deadline: July 14th, 2025 (23:59 AoE, Monday)
- Notification of Acceptance: August 1st, 2025 (23:59 AoE, Friday)
- Camera-Ready Submission: August 15th, 2025 (23:59 AoE, Friday)
- Workshop Date: October 8th, 2025 (Held in conjunction with ISMAR 2025)
Organizers
General Chairs
- Yahya (Yohan) Hmaiti (University of Central Florida, USA)
- Ryosuke Ichikari (Research Institute on Human and Societal Augmentation, AIST, Japan)
- Seonji Kim (KAIST, South Korea)
Program Committee
- Takeshi Kurata (Research Institute on Human and Societal Augmentation, AIST, Japan)
- Trond Nilsen (University of Washington, USA)
- Christine Perey (Spime Wrangler, Switzerland)
- Takefumi Hiraki (Cluster, Inc., Japan)
- Seoyoung Kang (KAIST, South Korea)
- Dooyoung Kim (KAIST, South Korea)
- Kiyoshi Kiyokawa (NAIST, Japan)
- Walterio W. Mayol-Cuevas (University of Bristol, UK)
- Weitao Song (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)
- Clemens Arth (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
Topics of Interest
The XRStand 2025 workshop welcomes contributions related to key areas (but not limited to) including:- Proposals, case studies, or reports on datasets, evaluation metrics, benchmarks, or competitions that support XR research and development.
- Activities involving Open-source projects, APIs, and tools that advance interoperability and reproducibility across XR applications.
- Terminology definitions, taxonomies, and conceptual frameworks in XR (e.g., Reality–Virtuality continuum), including reflections inspired by the ISMAR 2024 panel “xR is Dead, Long Live XR!”.
- Explorations and overviews of forum standards, de facto standards, and de jure standards, and their roles in shaping XR ecosystems.
Submission Guidelines
Submissions must follow the IEEE VGTC formatting guidelines and will be peer-reviewed based on relevance, originality, and contribution diversity. XRStand invites full-length and short‐format papers (up to 4 pages, excluding references). Acceptable formats include:
- Research Papers: describing novel XR work with an explicit standardization angle.
- Survey & Vision Papers: overviews of existing XR standards, taxonomies, or roadmaps.
- Position papers: reflecting on a conceptual challenge in XR standardization.
- Project papers: reports on community-driven or industry-led standardization efforts.
All accepted papers (up to 4 pages, excluding references) will be published in the ISMAR 2025 Abstracts & Workshop Proceedings and made available via the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. At least one author from each accepted submission must register for the workshop and present their work at XRStand.
Formatting
All submissions should be 4 pages of length excluding references, and use the IEEE VGTC formatting template and be submitted in PDF format. Submissions must be original, unpublished, and not currently under review elsewhere. Papers that fail to comply with formatting or length limits will be desk-rejected.
Review Process
All the submissions will be single blind and reviewed by the workshop organizers and program committee. Each submission will undergo peer review by at least two domain experts. Accepted manuscripts will be accepted as posters, and all presenters are expected to give a lightning talk before their poster presentation. Acceptance does not restrict future publications authors may present extended or modified versions of their work as full papers, short papers, or journal articles, provided they include significant new contributions beyond the original workshop submission. The review criteria will include but not limited to Originality; relevance to workshop themes; technical rigor or conceptual clarity; potential impact on XR community.
Review decisions are final. Authors of accepted papers will need to submit a revised version that addresses the feedback provided in the reviews before official acceptance to the workshop.
Submission Site
Submit via Microsoft FormsXRStand 2025 Program (Tentative)
Session I: Welcome and Keynote
Time | Title | Details |
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9:00 AM – 9:05 AM | Welcome and Introduction | Ryosuke Ichikari (AIST, Japan) |
9:05 AM – 9:20 AM | Opening Remarks: Revisit historical ties between ISMAR and standardization | Takeshi Kurata (AIST, Japan) |
9:20 AM – 9:55 AM | Keynote: Progress in Virtual Worlds Interoperability Standards and Metaverse Standardization Forum | Christine Perey (Spime Wrangler, Switzerland) |
Session II: Lightning Talks & Poster Session
Time | Title | Details |
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9:55 AM – 10:25 AM | Lightning Talks | Poster Presenters |
10:25 AM – 10:55 AM | Poster Session | Poster Presenters |
Session III: Coffee Break
Time | Title | Details |
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10:55 AM – 11:25 AM | Coffee Break |
Session IV: Invited Talks
Time | Title | Details |
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11:25 AM – 12:00 PM | Invited Talk: Revisiting Milgram & Kishino’s Reality–Virtuality Continuum | Missie Smith (Auburn University, USA) |
12:00 PM – 12:35 PM | Invited Talk: Towards Standardized Agent APIs for Large-Scale Social VR Platforms | Takefumi Hiraki (Cluster, Inc. / University of Tsukuba, Japan) |
Session V: Discussion & Closing
Time | Title | Details |
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12:35 PM – 1:00 PM | Discussion: Invitation to Standardization Committee Booth | Seonji Kim (KAIST, South Korea) |