Appy Hour

Your active involvement in SIGGRAPH 2026 is crucial for fostering collaborative creation and enhancing immersive experiences through cutting-edge computer graphics and interactive techniques. We are excited that you are submitting your work for consideration.

Log into the submission portal, select the “Make a New Submission” tab, and select the Appy Hour form. To see the information you need to submit, view the sample submission form.

In particular, please be aware of this field:
One “representative image” of the opening screenshot of your app suitable for use on the conference web site and promotional materials. See Representative Image Guidelines.

It is highly recommended to submit a video with your application. Make sure your video has narration that clearly explains what you want the reviewers to understand about your submission. Please upload a up to 2-minute video segment of captured video from your project. Maximum video size 200MB using H.264 codec. Minimum recommended resolution is 720p (avi, mov, mp4).

You may include multiple non-continuous edits in your capture, but you may not use any post-production tools or facilities to enhance the images or speed.

For more information about uploading files for your submission, please see the “Uploading Files” tab in the Submissions FAQ.

Each submission will be judged on five criteria:

• Innovation: Introduce a pioneering approach that redefines digital interaction, utilizing novel technologies and methodologies to solve complex challenges in graphics, animation, or interactive experiences.
• Novelty: Addresses a previously unsolved or under-addressed problem.
• Graphic attractiveness: Demonstrates outstanding graphic appeal with detailed, high-quality visual elements that create immersive and a visually captivating experience.
• Creativity: Exemplifies creativity by merging imaginative design principles with cutting-edge technology, resulting in a flexible and customizable experience.
• Technical achievement: Showcases cutting-edge technical execution, leveraging advanced algorithms, real-time rendering, and optimized performance to push the boundaries of graphics and interactive technology.

You will be notified of acceptance or rejection of your presentation in mid-May 2026 and receive an email from “rightsreview@acm.org” with a link to your work’s rights permission form within 72 hours of notification of acceptance of your work to the conference.

ACM Rights Management Form

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.

Please make sure that emails from “rightsreview@acm.org” and “tapsadmin@aptaracorp.awsapps.com” are part of the “allow list” in your email program so that you do not miss these email messages.

The source (Word or LaTeX) of your abstract, as well as any supplemental materials, must be delivered to TAPS, ACM’s article production system. TAPS will generate the PDF and HTML5 versions of your abstract for publication in the ACM Digital Library. The TAPS-generated PDF of your abstract must be no more than three pages in length, including references.

You must deliver your material to TAPS, resolve any formatting issues identified by TAPS or by the proceedings production editor, and approve your material for publication by Wednesday, 10 June 2026. If you cannot meet that deadline, you will not be allowed to present your material at SIGGRAPH 2025.

Information about the preparation and delivery of your final material to TAPS also can be found at https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~spencer/taps/taps.html.

Your representative image and text may be used for promotional purposes. Several SIGGRAPH 2026 programs will prepare preview videos of accepted content for pre-conference promotion, which may include a portion of the video you submitted for review. You may grant or deny us the ability to use the representative image and submitted video for these purposes on the ACM Rights Management form.

Complete Stage 2: Program Materials

Complete Stage 2: Program Materials by Friday, 5 June 2026, which includes:

• Review your submission through the submission portal and add a 50-word summary statement suitable for conference publicity.
• Provide a valid ORCID identifier (ACM requires that all accepted contributors register and provide ACM with valid ORCID identifiers prior to publication.) Corresponding contributors are responsible for collecting these ORCID identifiers from co-contributors and providing them to ACM as part of the ACM eRights selection process. You and your co-contributors can create and register your ORCID identifier at https://orcid.org/register. ACM only requires you to complete the initial ORCID registration process. However, ACM encourages you to take the additional step to claim ownership of all of your published works via the ORCID site.
• Submit a 30-second pre-recorded video summarizing your app. The video must adhere to the following specifications:
  • Quicktime .mov format required, H.264 codec export
  • 29.97 FPS
  • 16:9 aspect ratio
  • 30-second duration maximum (shorter than 30 seconds is acceptable, but not longer)
  • Musical background audio track, without vocals, that you have permissions to use in this video

In-Person Presentation
If your Appy Hour submission is accepted, the contributor must:

• Attend and demo your app on-site at SIGGRAPH 2026 in Los Angeles.

At SIGGRAPH 2026 accepted submitters will showcase their app during Appy Hour, where participants will have the opportunity to see and interact with your app, and you will have the opportunity to network with other app developers, gaming companies, etc.

Registration and travel costs to attend SIGGRAPH 2026 are at your own expense.

Contributors should plan to present from their own personal laptops.

Presenter Recognition

Contributor Registration Benefit: One contributor per accepted Appy Hour receives a 100% complimentary Experience registration.

To present your work in the SIGGRAPH 2026 Appy Hour program, contributors must be registered at the Experience registration level and above.

You will receive an email by mid-May explaining how to access the registration discount code as well as instructions for registering. The contributor using the discount code is eligible for the early-bird registration rate regardless of when registration is completed. Any additional contributors that will be attending the Appy Hour program are also required to register at the appropriate registration level for the program, and prevailing registration rates will apply.

All deadlines are 22:00 UTC/GMT unless otherwise noted.

21 April 2026, 22:00 UTC/GMT
Submission deadline.

Mid-May 2026
Acceptance or rejection notices are sent to all submitters.

5 June 2026

• Deadline to make approved title change and descriptions for publication on the website.
• Deadline for the 30-second pre-recorded video.

10 June 2026
The up to three-page abstract upload to TAPS deadline. If we do not receive your abstract by Wednesday, 10 June, you will not be allowed to present at SIGGRAPH 2026.

17 July 2026
Official publication date for the ACM Digital Library

Please Note: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.)

19-23 July 2026
SIGGRAPH 2026
Los Angeles Convention Center
Los Angeles, California