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The slides for the talk are available.

Tutorial on ILLIXR at ASPLOS on 3/30/25 from 8 am to 11:30 pm CST. 

We are very excited to announce a major new release of ILLIXR (ILLinois eXtended Reality testbed)  - a significant milestone towards our grand challenge goal of comfortable, mobile, all day, rich immersive experiences.  The stringent power budgets of mobile and lightweight XR devices imply that not all immersive computations can be performed locally — remote offloading or Distributed XR is essential. ILLIXR v4.0 is the first open-source end-to-end XR system that supports offloading of both head tracking and rendering (with 6DoF reprojection in the runtime), either separately or together. This release also introduces several other major upgrades, including hand tracking, plugin support for ORB_SLAM3 integration, and a new network backend that enables the offloading of multiple components under the coordination of the runtime.

Get started with ILLIXR! We released several hands-on tasks for new students and developers interested in XR research and modular runtime systems.

Sarita Adve delivered a keynote speech at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2024, exploring the future of immersive computing. She shared groundbreaking insights and integrative research approaches designed to bridge the gap between current and desired immersive systems, aiming to foster a better world through technology.

The first annual IMMERSE Symposium will be held on February 7th and 8th at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus!

Today, we are excited to announce the release of ILLIXR version 3.2.0. This major update brings significant improvements and updates, including a complete rewrite of the build system, new graphics pipelines using the Vulkan API, and enhanced integration with Monado's out-of-process compositor. Dive into the details below to learn more about what's new, changed, and fixed in this release.