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1st International Workshop on Networking and Sensing for the Metaverse and Multi-user and Social XR Environments (NESXR'26)
(Co-located with IEEE VR conferance 2026)

21–25 March 2026, Daegu, Korea. 

Call for Papers
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Dear colleagues,

The 1st International Workshop on Networking and Sensing for the Metaverse and Multi-user and Social XR Environments (NESXR'26).

I am thrilled to announce that the 1st International Workshop on Networking and Sensing for the Metaverse and Multi-user and Social XR Environments (NESXR'26) has been accepted at IEEE VR - Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces.

This year, the conference will be held in Daegu, Korea, on March 21-25, 2026.
The workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/nesxr26

Aim: create a research agenda on networking, sensing, and immersiveness in the Metaverse, drawing on expertise from the IEEE VR community.

The workshop accepts research/position papers (max. 6/4 pages; IEEE VGTC conference format).

Important Dates:
Paper Submission Deadline: January 10, 2026
Notification of Acceptance: January 22, 2026
Camera-ready deadline: January 31, 2026

We look forward to your submission (please find the details and topics for submission below).

Best Regards
Kurt, Yiran, Mohammad, and Yan 
(NESXR'26 workshop co-chairs)

The topics for submissions might comprise:

• Assessment of usage patterns and UX in multi-user XR systems
• Traffic measurement and QoE modeling for multi-user XR systems
• Network requirements engineering for multi-user XR systems
• Modelling of emotions and their exchange / emotion-aware networking and modelling
• Privacy mechanisms for networked multi-user XR systems
• Generative AI for content generation in networked and multi-user XR systems
• Federated and distributed learning for optimizing multi-user XR systems
• Visualization patterns using the networking-cloud continuum in multi-user XR systems
• Network resource management for multi-user XR systems
• Adaptive network slicing and prioritization for multi-user XR traffic
• Cross-layer optimization between application, transport, and network layers for multi-user XR traffic
• Context-aware and adaptive networking for multi-user XR systems
• Joint communication and sensing (JCAS) for multi-user XR systems
• Network protocols for multi-user XR systems
• Edge-cloud collaboration for rendering, streaming, and computation in multi-user XR systems
• Data traffic characterization for immersive sensors in multi-user XR systems
• Digital twins for users or networks for resource management in multi-user XR systems
• Synchronization techniques for immersive sensors and applications in multi-user XR systems
• APIs for networked multi-user XR systems
• Multimodal content streaming for multi-user XR systems
• User activity recognition in multi-user XR systems
• Privacy and security risks in multi-user XR systems
• Multimodal sensing in multi-user XR systems
• Distributed and collaborative learning for multi-user XR systems
• Multimodal content compression and encoding for multi-user XR systems
• Social impact analysis and evaluation of multi-user XR systems
• New interaction technologies to support cross-user interactions in XR systems


Submission and Important Dates:
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Paper Submission Deadline: January 10, 2026
Notification of Acceptance: January 22, 2026
Camera-ready deadline: January 31, 2026

The workshop accepts research/position papers (max. 6/4 pages; IEEE VGTC conference format).

Submission site:
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https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=nesxr26 

Workshop organisers:
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- Co-Chair: Kurt Tutschku (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden; kurt.tutschku@bth.se)
- Co-Chair: Yiran Shen (Shandong University, China; yiran.shen@sdu.edu.cn)
- Co-Chair: Mohammad Rajiullah (Karlstad University, Sweden; mohammad.rajiullah@kau.se)
- Publication-and publicity chair: Yan Hu (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden; yan.hu@bth.se)

Author Instructions:
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The workshop accepts research papers (max. six pages; excluding references) as well as position papers (max. four pages; excluding references). Please follow the IEEE Computer Society VGTC conference format (https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/publications/conference/). The submitted paper will be peer-reviewed based on relevance, originality, and contribution diversity. The accepted papers are made available in IEEE Digital Library.