We are excited to announce XWORLDS: The 1st International Workshop on Advancing Interoperability in Virtual Worlds, to be held at ISMAR 2026. The workshop aims to bring together researchers, designers, and practitioners to identify design heuristics and research priorities for the next generation of Virtual Worlds.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome.

• Position papers and case studies (2–4 pages) covering one or more of the topics outlined below

List of Topics

• Interoperability and friction points in today's Virtual Worlds
• Federated architectures and alternatives to centralized platforms
• Digital sovereignty, ethics, privacy, and user agency

Committees

Program Committee

• TBA

Organizing Committee

• Leif Oppermann Fraunhofer (Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT)
• Jean Vanderdonckt (Université Catholique de Louvain)
• Maud Marchal (Univ. Rennes, INSA, IRISA)
• Tommy Nilsson (Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT)
• Marco Sacco (National Research Council of Italy)
• Christoph Runde (Virtual Dimension Center - VDC)
• Holger Graf (Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD)

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to tommy.nilsson@fit.fraunhofer.de or leif.oppermann@fit.fraunhofer.de.