Month: September 2025
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Call: IEEE AIxVR 2026 – 8th International Conference on AI & extended and Virtual Reality
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Read more: Call: IEEE AIxVR 2026 – 8th International Conference on AI & extended and Virtual RealityCall for Papers: IEEE AIxVR 20268th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence & extended and Virtual RealityJanuary 26-28, 2026University of OsakaOsaka, Japanhttps://aivr.science.uu.nl/2026 Deadlines for submissions: Technical papers (full & short): September 26, 2025 Work in progress papers: October 31, 2025 Demos / video papers: October 31, 2025 Conference updates: See also the Call for Workshops & Special Sessions. Submit your proposals until September 15, 2025. Decisions will be made on a rolling basis within a few days. We are happy to announce our 1st keynote speaker: Mariko Isogawa from Keio University, Japan, will talk about “Beyond Visibility: Understanding Scenes and Humans…
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Eye care company VirtuaLens launches VR simulator to help patients and families preview treatment options
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Read more: Eye care company VirtuaLens launches VR simulator to help patients and families preview treatment options[As a person with low vision who studies presence, I really appreciate the potential value of the simulator described in this summary report from Eyes on Eyecare. Follow the links, particularly to the company’s press release (also available via PR Newswire) and website, for more information. –Matthew] VirtuaLens launches with VR-based IOL simulator By Alex Delaney-GesingSeptember 4, 2025 VirtuaLens has officially launched as an eyecare medical technology company with a first-of-its-kind virtual reality (VR)-based technology: the Immersive intraocular lens (IOL) Simulator. A new company and product?! Where to begin? We’ll start with the company. Headquartered in Cedar Park, Texas, VirtuaLens…
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Call: Joint conference of the Political Studies Assoc. Media and Politics Group & Technology, Information and Policy Group
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Read more: Call: Joint conference of the Political Studies Assoc. Media and Politics Group & Technology, Information and Policy GroupCall for Papers: Joint annual conference of the Political Studies Association Media and Politics Group & Technology, Information and Policy GroupConference theme: “Navigating Digital Democracy”January 8-9, 2026, Bournemouth, UK (in person)January 7, 2026 (online)https://www.psa.ac.uk/events/psa-tip-x-media-and-politics-navigating-digital-democracy Deadline for submissions: September 26, 2025 You are warmly invited to submit papers for presentation at the joint annual conference of the Political Studies Association’s Media and Politics Group & Technology, Information and Policy Group This year’s conference theme, “Navigating Digital Democracy” will explore the intersection of technology, media, and politics in shaping democratic practices and governance. As the digital landscape continues to evolve, technology plays…
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Liar’s dividend: President of United States blames AI to avoid accountability and embraces doing so
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Read more: Liar’s dividend: President of United States blames AI to avoid accountability and embraces doing so[As reported in this story from the AP via ABC News, the president of the United States claimed that a video of objects being thrown from an open upstairs window at the White House this week was created with artificial intelligence despite administration representatives having acknowledged that was not the case, an example of the “liar’s dividend” in which people falsely claim technology was used to evoke (presence-based) misperceptions to avoid being held accountable for actual actions and events. The story describes other examples and provides additional context. In the Reliable Sources email newsletter for September 3, CNN media analyst…
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Call: Seventh International Conference on Real-Time Intelligent Systems (RTIS 2025)
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Read more: Call: Seventh International Conference on Real-Time Intelligent Systems (RTIS 2025)Call for Papers: Seventh International Conference on Real-Time Intelligent Systems (RTIS 2025)October 13-14, 2025Macau Millennium College, MacauandNovember 5-6, 2025Posts and Telecommunications Institute of TechnologyHo Chi Minh, Vietnamhttps://www.socio.org.uk/rtis Deadline for submissions:September 15, 2025 The International Conference on Real-time Intelligent Systems (RTIS) has travelled from Beijing, China (2016), to Macau. The seventh edition will take place at the University of Macau, Macau and at the Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology, Ho Chi Minh, in Vietnam. Authors can participate in Macau or in Vietnam. Over the past few years, real-time intelligent computing has revolutionised the human lifestyle.…
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The accidental engineer who conjured up Extended Reality
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Read more: The accidental engineer who conjured up Extended Reality[This link-filled story from IEEE Spectrum describes some of the impressive presence-related achievements of pioneering engineer and scholar Steve Mann, now a professor at the University of Toronto. See the original story for a second image and for more information see the February 2025 article “Extended Reality: History, Concepts, and Techniques“ (pdf) in the International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET). –Matthew] [Image: Steve Mann known as “the father of wearable computing,” is seen here wearing the “Eyetap,” an extended reality device he invented which transfers video images recorded from his point of view to a monitor. Credit: Randy…
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Call: “Epistemic Agency in the Age of AI” Synthese Topical Collection
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Read more: Call: “Epistemic Agency in the Age of AI” Synthese Topical CollectionCall for Papers: Epistemic Agency in the Age of AIA Synthese Topical Collectionhttps://link.springer.com/collections/bdbfcggfha Guest Editors: Stefan Buijsman (TU Delft), Markus Pantsar (RWTH Aachen), Giorgia Pozzi (TU Delft) Deadline for submissions: February 1, 2026 The use of opaque AI systems complicates our epistemic agency, broadly understood as the ability to form and revise beliefs, share information and knowledge, and be perceived as knowers by other epistemic agents. On the one hand, these systems seem to provide justifications for beliefs and aid in scientific practice. Novel developments in the context of LLMs mimicking reasoning abilities also open up questions about the nature…
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YouTube secretly used AI to edit people’s videos. The results could bend reality
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Read more: YouTube secretly used AI to edit people’s videos. The results could bend reality[This story from the BBC explores the implications of several recent, and older, examples of media companies subtly altering the ways they present reality to consumers without informing them, essentially as the author writes, “add[ing] additional steps between us and the information and media we consume, often in ways you’d never notice at first glance” and thereby altering our perceptions of objects, people and events in the real (nonmediated) world. –Matthew] [Image: Credit: Illustration by Serenity Strull/Getty Images] YouTube secretly used AI to edit people’s videos. The results could bend reality YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without telling users…
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