Researcher Guanghan Zhao gave oral presentations on the following two accepted papers at the 33rd IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR & 3DUI) 2026, a top conference in the field of virtual reality research.

• Guanghan Zhao, Yangyang Cai, Kazuyuki Fujita, Robert W. Lindeman, Yoshifumi Kitamura: BlanchTouch: Bringing Fingertip Blanch Detection into Mixed Reality for Touch Input on Flat Surfaces, Proceeding of 2026 IEEE Conference Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR & 3DUI)
• Guanghan Zhao, Louis Teys, Gyeonghwan Yang, Shengdong Zhao, and Yoshifumi Kitamura: FanType: Intention-Inferring Fan-shaped Thumb Interface for Text Entry on Small XR Keyboards, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics