HomeSubmit Your WorkReal-Time Live!

Real-Time Live!

Share this page
Submission Deadline: 7 August 2026, 23:59 AoE
Be part of SIGGRAPH Asia in Kuala Lumpur’s most dynamic event – Real-Time Live!. This is your chance to showcase groundbreaking real-time graphics, and interactive techniques, and work in the field in front of a live audience. In just six minutes, you’ll demonstrate your innovation on stage, giving fellow creators and enthusiasts an inside look at how your technology works.
Real-Time Live! draws big crowds and is consistently one of the most attended events during SIGGRAPH, and for good reason – anything can happen during a live demo! Whether you’re pushing the boundaries of game technology, revolutionizing virtual production, or transforming scientific visualization, this is your opportunity to share your breakthroughs in real-time.
We Are Seeking Cutting-Edge Real-Time Work In The Following Areas:
  • State‐of‐the‐art graphics and interactive techniques
  • Video Games (commercial, explorations, applications)
  • Filmmaking Technology
  • Extended reality (spatial media, virtual worlds and tools)
  • Virtual production
  • Digital content creation tools
  • Demoscene
  • Real‐time artistic explorations and live performances
  • Research projects (i.e., physics, graphics, modelling, etc.)
  • Military or industrial simulations
  • Scientific visualizations (i.e., medical, astrophysics, astronomy)
  • Machine learning
  • Any real-time interactive innovation suitable for demoing to a live theatre audience
The following topics are also welcome:
  • Visual, interactive, procedural, narrative media arts
  • Installations, performances, public events
  • Built environments, immersive worlds, hybrid experiences
  • Embodied, affective, biological interfaces and effects
  • Libraries, archives, museums, galleries, exhibitions
  • Cultural heritage sites, memorials, testimonies
  • Education, documentary, journalism, activism
  • Visualization, sonification, hapticization, physicalization of data
  • Generative, collaborative, autonomous authoring systems
  • Identity formation and deformation
  • Projects that would not be eligible to show at SIGGRAPH Asia Art Gallery due to budget, logistics, etc.

Real-Time Live! Chair

Yibing Jiang
IceMemory Animation
Independent
SUBMIT HERE
View the Sample Submission Form to get an overview of all the details needed to complete a submission.
  • Log in to the Submissions Portal.
  • Select “Begin a New Submission” tab.
  • Select the Real-Time Live! form.
In particular, please be aware of crucial information that you will need to provide, including but not limited to:
Basic Information
  • A minute-by-minute breakdown of a 6-minute presentation of your work for a live audience.
  • An overview of the platform and necessary hardware needed to run your project. (NOTE: SIGGRAPH Asia cannot guarantee the onsite availability of any specific hardware platforms or software packages. For best results, plan to ship your own platform hardware to the conference).
  • A list of all licensed components and/or middleware.
  • Network requirements.
Representative Image
  • One “representative image” suitable for use on the conference website and promotional materials. See the Representative Image Guidelines located on the Submission Information.
  • 3 x 2 aspect ratio, landscape orientation (recommended)
  • Minimum 1500 x 1000 pixel resolution
  • Minimum 300 dpi
  • Maximum 15 MB size
  • Allowed formats: jpeg
Video (Upload or Link)
  • Maximum 2-minute segment of captured video from your project.
  • Multiple non-continuous edits are permissible.
  • Post-processing such as image or speed enhancement is strictly prohibited.
  • Narration explaining the content in the video is highly encouraged.
  • Minimum 1080p resolution
  • Maximum 200 MB size
  • Allowed format: mp4
Additional Information
  • File Uploads
    • Click Here for more information about uploading files to your submission.
General Submission Policies
For more details on SIGGRAPH Asia’s General Submission Policies, please go to SIGGRAPH Asia’s Submission Information page.
Questions?
Contact the Real-Time Live committee here.
Entries are judged by a panel of human-computer interaction, computer graphics, and real-time technology experts from across the industry. They are looking for the best interactive work driven by real-time technology that results in compelling and innovative content for a live audience. Creativity, innovation, content, and performance will be considered. The jury will review each submission on the following major criteria:
  1. Innovation (pushes the boundaries of real-time rendering or immersive techniques)
  2. Interactivity (how much control and quality of interactivity is allowed to the user)
  3. Creativity and originality
  4. Interest and entertainment value for SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 attendees
  5. Production values (appropriate to context)
The jury will select the top-rated pieces for presentation at SIGGRAPH Asia 2026, and all submitters will be notified of their submission status: accepted, conditionally accepted, or rejected.* In all cases, the jury will provide detailed feedback to submitters.
*In very rare cases, submissions may be conditionally accepted. If your work is conditionally accepted, you must demonstrate your submission to a jury member in person, so that its interactivity and/or real-time graphics aspects can be verified. Jurors who have a conflict of interest with your submission will not be permitted to review your submission.
Non-Disclosure Agreements
SIGGRAPH Asia reviewers cannot sign non-disclosure agreements for submissions. Click here for information on the Submission and Authorization Agreement.
Upon Curation
Upon Curation, you will be able to update your basic submission information, so it can be included in the conference schedule and website. This information needs to be finalized the week following your acceptance.
Accepted submissions will be allotted up to six minutes for presentation.
You may submit a rehearsal video (six minutes) of your complete presentation six weeks before the conference with a written script of your presentation that details the flow and wording of the content that you plan to present at SIGGRAPH Asia. However, a live rehearsal session of your complete presentation will be mandatory for evaluation.
The Real-Time Live! Committee will accommodate remote rehearsal feedback sessions if needed.
At SIGGRAPH Asia, the submitter (and up to two additional people) must demonstrate a six-minute segment of the project live in real time on the hardware of their choice. Presenters are required to attend SIGGRAPH Asia 2026. Registration and travel costs are at your own expense, except for the contributor of record, who will receive recognition as specified in the SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 Recognition Benefits.
Before SIGGRAPH Asia 2026, all accepted presenters will receive the Real-Time Live! Presenter Preparation and Logistics Guide. This document includes complete details on shipping hardware, setup, rehearsals, the Real-Time Live! show and tear-down.

If your work is accepted for presentation at SIGGRAPH Asia 2026: You must complete the ACM Rights Management Form. The form will be sent to all submitters whose work is accepted.

Publication
When your ACM Rights Management Form has been delivered to ACM, you will then receive an email from “tapsadmin@aptaracorp.awsapps.com” with information about the preparation and delivery of your material to TAPS for publication

Your representative image and text may be used for promotional purposes. Several SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 programs – Art Gallery, Computer Animation Festival, Emerging Technologies, XR, Real-Time Live!, Technical Papers – will prepare preview videos for pre-conference promotion of accepted content, which may include a portion of the video you submitted for review.

Upon acceptance, presenters will be required to:
*Dates and time may be subject to changes
  • Finalize Submission Materials (by 23 September 2026)
    Update information in your submission by 23 September 2026 so it can be incorporated into the conference schedule, website, and promotions.
  • Secure Permissions on Representative Image and Video (by 23 September 2026)
    Attain the proper permissions for the representative image and video in your submission by 23 September 2026. This media will be used for event-related promotional purposes. (See the examples on Representative Image and Trailer.) Note that if your work is referencing other work that is copyrighted, additional proof of permissions will be required. For more information, see http://authors.acm.org/.
  • Prepare and Complete your Publication-ready Abstract
    Contributors will receive an email from The ACM Production System (TAPS) for publication. TAPS accepts LaTeX or Word source documents and prepares the formatted PDF and HTML5 versions of one’s article for publication in the ACM Digital Library. Information on preparing and delivering materials to TAPS is here.
  • Attend Virtual Rehearsal(s)
    Attend a mandatory virtual rehearsal in October or November 2026 (multiple if deemed necessary by Real-Time Live! Chair) using videoconferencing software. You will be expected to demonstrate your entire presentation in 6-minutes or under to the Real-Time Live! Committee, you will be contacted by us prior.
  • Bring Multiple Copies of the Presentation to SIGGRAPH Asia 2026
    Must bring TWO copies of the presentation technology on-site along with all applicable hardware. (To provide insurance in the event that the primary technology crashes/fails during the live event.) If the technology was also accepted to another area of the conference, you will be required to bring an additional copy of your technology (for a total of THREE copies). No technology will be moved once it is set up for Real-Time Live! on the afternoon of Friday, 04 December 2026.
  • Arrive in Kuala Lumpur Before Noon on 01 December 2026
    Arrange travel to Kuala Lumpur to arrive BEFORE NOON on 01 December 2026 for presenter check-in and tech setup. ALL presenters must be present at that time.
  • Registration and travel costs are at your own expense, except for the contributor of record, who will receive recognition as specified in the SIGGRAPH Asia Recognition Benefits.
  • Attend Rehearsal On-Site at SIGGRAPH Asia, Thursday, 03 December 2026
    Attend a mandatory rehearsal of the Real-Time Live! program in its entirety on the morning of Thursday, 03 December 2026 from 8AM. until 11AM. (Time subjected to changes).
  • Present at Real-Time Live! Event at SIGGRAPH Asia, Friday, 04 December 2026
    Be present for Real-Time Live! in its entirety on Friday, 04 December 2026, arriving 45 minutes before show time (typically 4PM.) and tearing down materials at event end (typically from 6:30PM). Exact time subject to changes.
All deadlines are 23:59 AoE.
20 August 2026
Submission Deadline
06 September 2026
Acceptance Notification
23 September 2026
Final delivery of rehearsal video and script, confirmations due, alongside submission updates and permissions for representative image and video.
Mid October – Mid November 2026
Mandatory virtual rehearsals
1 – 4 December 2026
SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 Event Days
2 – 4 December 2026
SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 Exhibition Days