XRStand 2025

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.

Guide for Poster & Lightning Talk Presenters

This section provides specific, updated instructions for accepted authors regarding poster display and lightning talks for the XRStand 2025 Workshop.

1. Poster Display Requirements

Poster Size: The expected size is the A0 portrait format.
Display Duration: Posters will be displayed for the duration of the XRStand 2025 Workshop (14:00 to 17:30 in Room 102).
Required Content: Ensure your poster clearly displays components such as: title, author names/affiliations, introduction, methods, results, and conclusions.

2. Preparing Your Lightning Talk

Deadline: All talk slides must be submitted by October 5th.
Submission Link: Upload your presentation materials (slides) via the secure link provided through email and here: https://aist.ent.box.com/f/19892cb2d0bb4182959079f5cfb4c6c4
Template (Optional): An optional presentation template has been prepared to help maintain a consistent visual style for the workshop (shared through email). Use is encouraged but not mandatory.
Technical Note: All slides must be preloaded onto the organizers’ PC for projection. Please ensure your submission is in a standard format (e.g., ppt or PDF).

XRStand 2025 Program

Date: Oct 8, 2025 (Wed.) | Time: 2:00 PM – 5:30 PM | Location: Room 102

Session I: Welcome and Keynote

Time	Title	Details
2:00 PM – 2:05 PM	Welcome and Introduction	Ryosuke Ichikari (AIST, Japan)
2:05 PM – 2:15 PM	Opening Remarks: Revisit historical ties between ISMAR and standardization	Takeshi Kurata (AIST, Japan)
2:15 PM – 2:50 PM	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
2:50 PM – 3:20 PM	Lightning Talk Session	Poster Presenters
3:20 PM – 3:50 PM	Poster Session Designing xDR Challenge 2025 to Evaluate Localization Performance of Smartphone with Navigation Robot for People with Visual Impairment Satoki Ogiso, Ryosuke Ichikari, Akihiro Sato, Daisuke Sato, Takahiro Miura, Masakatsu Kourogi, Takashi Okuma, Takeshi Tanabe, Takeshi Kurata VRM: Concept and Implementation of an Application-Interoperable Avatar Format Shinnosuke Iwaki, Takeshi Kurata Standardization for Social VR: Balancing Expressive Diversity, Interoperability, and Creator Participation Yuto Kunitake, Minwoo Song A Proposal for a Common Platform and Methodology for Evaluating xR Experiences Junji Ohyama Hand/Finger gesture standardization for FCI(Finger-Computer-Interface) in XR Kyungmin Kim, Sehyeok Yoo, Youngho Chai Spatio-Temporal Mixed and Augmented Reality Experience Description for Interactive Playback Dooyoung Kim, Woontack Woo Human-to-Avatar Face Representation of Extended Reality (XR) Glasses Wearers for Communication Seoyoung Kang, Seokhwan Yang, Woontack Woo Toward a Human-Centered Framework for Standardization in eXtended Reality (XR): Development, Measurement, and Evaluation Christos Gkoumas, Eleftherios Triantafyllidis, Alexandros Rouchitsas Mutual Space Representation Standardization for Mixed and Augmented Reality Remote Collaboration Seonji Kim, Woontack Woo No Terminology, No Standards, No Future: Semantic Interoperability for Bridging Stakeholders in XR Takeshi Kurata

Session III: Coffee Break

Time	Title	Details
3:50 PM – 4:00 PM	Coffee Break

Session IV: Invited Talks

Time	Title	Details
4:00 PM – 4:35 PM	Invited Talk: Revisiting Milgram & Kishino’s Reality–Virtuality Continuum	Missie Smith (Auburn University, USA)
4:35 PM – 5:10 PM	Invited Talk: Latest Trends of Large-scale Metaverse Platforms and Perspectives on Standardization	Takefumi Hiraki (Cluster, Inc. / University of Tsukuba, Japan)

Session V: Discussion & Closing

Time	Title	Details
5:10 PM – 5:30 PM	Discussion: Invitation to Standardization Committee Booth	Seonji Kim (KAIST, South Korea)

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 Forms

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)