The SVR (Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Reality) is an international symposium, sponsored by SBC (The Brazilian Computing Society). SVR brings together researchers, practitioners, students and other professionals from academic, industrial and commercial areas interested in the advances and applications of Virtual and augmented Reality.

     SVR is the major conference in VR and AR in Brazil.

....After the first eight events, which took place in São Carlos (1997), Marília (1999), Gramado (2000), Florianópolis (2001), Fortaleza (2002), Ribeirão Preto (2003), São Paulo (2004) and Belem (2006), the 9th SVR will be held in the Petrópolis, which is known as the "Imperial City".

....The SVR aims at bringing together researchers, promoting the exchange of experiences and facilitating the interaction between research groups, creating better conditions for new inter-institutional research groups to be created, as well as working as a display of the advances of virtual and augmented reality in Brazil and in the world.

....The planned activities for SVR include minicourses, keynote speakers, tutorials, technical sessions to present related papers, demo and prototype exhibition, workshop of thesis and dissertations on related topics and workshop for undergraduate work.