CALL FOR PAPERS

VARSE 2025

The Third International Workshop on Virtual and Augmented Reality Software Engineering

Seoul, South Korea

In conjunction with the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2025)

November 16–20, 2025

INTRODUCTION

The Third International Workshop on Virtual and Augmented Reality Software Engineering (VARSE 2025) aims to encourage collaboration and knowledge sharing in the areas of virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) and software engineering, as well as to nurture a growing research community.

VR and AR are emerging technologies with promising applications across gaming, education, communication, healthcare, and beyond. Major technology companies—including Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Meta—are investing heavily in these areas, while platforms such as Unity, ARCore, ARKit, and Meta for Developers have enabled thousands of VR/AR applications.

VR/AR software development brings unique challenges, such as graphics design and performance optimization, 3D asset management, testing under physical-world constraints (for AR), and enhanced privacy requirements. At the same time, VR/AR opens new opportunities for software engineering practice itself, for example, immersive 3D code visualization and VR-based IDEs.

VARSE 2025 invites both academic and industrial contributions to advance the state of the art and practice in VR/AR software engineering. The workshop aims to provide a forum for industry to present real-world challenges and for academia to share solutions and findings with potential for broad impact.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Requirement analysis and specification of VR/AR software

• Modeling and abstraction of VR/AR software

• Testing and maintenance of VR/AR software

• Performance measurement and optimization of VR/AR software

• Program analysis and verification of VR/AR software

• Security and privacy concerns in VR/AR software

• Mining VR/AR software repositories and dataset creation

• Empirical studies on VR/AR software development processes and products

• VR/AR-based IDEs and coding tools

• User studies of VR/AR-based software development techniques

• VR/AR-based software visualization

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: August 26, 2025

Notification of acceptance: September 26, 2025

Camera-ready deadline: October 5, 2025

Workshop date: November 20, 2025

SUBMISSION DETAILS

• Submissions must be in PDF format and conform to the ASE 2025 formatting guidelines.

• Use the IEEE Conference Proceedings format, 10pt, conference style.

• Page limit: 5 pages, plus 1 additional page for references.

• Submissions must not be published or under review elsewhere.

• VARSE 2025 follows a double-blind review process: author identities must not be revealed. Authors should carefully anonymize their submissions.

SUBMISSION SITE

Papers must be submitted via EasyChair:

https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=varse2025

PUBLICATION AND PRESENTATION

Accepted papers (excluding talk abstracts) will be published in the ASE 2025 workshop proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the workshop and present their work.