The 3rd International Conference on Augmented and Virtual Reality (SALENTO AVR 2016) offers a real opportunity to bring the community of researchers from academia and industry, computer scientists, engineers, physicians in order to share points of views, knowledge, experiences and scientific and technical results, related to state-of-the-art solutions and technologies on virtual and augmented reality applications, computer graphics, and games. Papers submitted to SALENTO AVR 2016 must not have been previously published and must not be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Decisions on acceptance will be based on potential to contribute to the state of the art, accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and presentation quality. Only papers submitted through the electronic system and strictly adhering to the relevant format will be considered for reviewing and publication. SALENTO AVR 2016 accepts two types of paper: full papers (10–20 pages), and short papers (6-10 pages). Full papers should be mainly focused on research, applications or systems describing results that contribute to advances in state-of-the-art software, hardware, algorithms, interaction or human-factors. Short papers should be mainly focused on work-in-progress, achievements of initial research, projects in early stages of development, case studies, etc. Accepted short papers will be published in the conference proceedings and presented at the conference as poster. DEADLINES Paper submission: February 21, 2016 Notification of acceptance: March 21, 2015 Camera-ready submission (*): March 31, 2016