Lucio Tommaso De Paolis is an Associate Professor of Information Processing Systems at the Department of Innovation Engineering of the University of Salento, Italy. His research interests concern the study of the design and development of applications of Virtual and Augmented Reality in medicine and surgery, as well as cultural heritage and education. De Paolis is the Director of the Augmented and Virtual Reality Laboratory (AVR Lab) at the Department of Engineering for Innovation at the University of Salento and the founder of AVR Med srl, a Spin-off company of the University of Salento. He teaches “Applications of Virtual and Augmented Reality” at the University of Salento. De Paolis has been the organizer of the annual International Conference on Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Computer Graphics (SALENTO AVR – www.salentoavr.it) and he is currently the organizer of the annual International Conference on eXtended Reality (XR SALENTO – www.xrsalento.it).