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ILLIXR v4.1 Released

October 7, 2025

We are excited to announce a new release of ILLIXR (ILLinois eXtended Reality testbed)  - a milestone toward our grand challenge goal of comfortable, mobile, all-day, rich immersive experiences. This release of ILLIXR introduces a set of nine plugins for our Ada system, a distributed, power-aware, real-time scene provider for XR.

New Research on Securing XR Systems to be Presented at MobiHoc 2025 Workshop

September 19, 2025

Researchers leveraging the ILLIXR (Illinois Extended Reality) platform continue to explore new challenges in immersive computing. Their latest work introduces a lightweight headset-side defense against subtle adversarial drift in XR systems, advancing efforts toward more secure and trustworthy immersive computing.

ASPLOS 2025 Tutorial

March 28, 2025

The full tutorial video is available at this link

The slides for the talk are available.

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

ILLIXR v4.0 Released

March 28, 2025

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.

ILLIXR Starter Tasks Now Available!

March 3, 2025

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

Keynote at DAC 2024

June 27, 2024

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.