Imaging for XR 2025 Explores Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality Technologies
Sep 26, 2025
You are invited to the Society for Imaging Science and Technology’s annual workshop Imaging for XR 2025! Susan Lakin, former a2ru Executive Committee Member and Professor of Photographic Sciences and Director of the Frameless Labs at a2ru member school RIT, is serving on the program committee for this focused workshop on video passthrough in mixed reality technologies. The workshop brings together leading researchers, practitioners, and creators to discuss the latest advances in digital passthrough XR and to envision future directions in immersive imaging.
a2ru members are encouraged to join the event and contribute to the academic discussion; please share with colleagues or students who may be interested as well!
Imaging for XR is a one-day online workshop on virtual, augmented, and mixed reality technologies that enhance and blend the digital and the physical worlds.
This year, they will focus on mixed reality, also called digital passthrough or video passthrough. They will bring together researchers to share the latest on how to create a 3D scene that seamlessly blends video captures of the real world with virtual content. They will also host a discussion panel of artists and designers who work with mixed reality, intended to spark a conversation on the limits of current technology and to identify opportunities for new directions.
Imaging for XR 2025 will take place online, on Friday, November 14, 2025, from 8:00 – 16:00 CA / 11:00 – 19:00 NY / 17:00 pm – 1:00 Paris.
Early bird pricing is available until October 14, 2025. Reduced student pricing and classroom pricing are available. See the registration page for details.
Confirmed Presenters include:
- Konstantine Tsotsos (Google Android XR): Video Passthrough for Android XR
- Won-Joon Do & Dongheon Yoo (Samsung Electronics): Practical Challenges Towards Comfortable and Realistic Image Quality in Video Passthrough
- Stan Jin (ByteDance Ltd., PICO XR): A Framework for Dissecting Perceptual Issues in Video Passthrough
- Robert Allison (York University): Binocular Calibration in Passthrough VR
- Ken Wolfe (Niantic Spatial): Reconstructing and Localizing the World: Real-Time Imaging Advances in XR
- Jonghyun Kim (NVIDIA): Real-time Interactive 6-DoF Free-viewpoint Video Streaming of 4D Gaussian Splatting for XR
A Discussion Panel with Content Creators will include:
- Dustin Kochensparger & Blake Gross (DB Creations, Co-Founders)
- Jenna Arndt (Kinneta, Co-Founder and Head of Fitness)
- Jimmy Vainstein (The World Bank, Sr. Program Manager XR & Interactive Media)
The 2025 IS&T Workshop on Imaging for XR Committee includes:
- Bennett Wilburn (chair) – Google
- Nicolas Bonnier – Apple
- Lizzie Hubbard – Meta
- Susan Lakin – RIT
- JongHyun Kim – NVIDIA
- Minjung Kim – Unaffiliated