Foreword to the Special Section on the 25th Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology.

Guest Editors It is our pleasure to present this special section of Computers & Graphics (C&G), featuring the best paper presented at the 25th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2019), held November 12-15, 2019 in Sydney, Australia. ACM VRST is a premier international forum for the exchange of experiences and knowledge among researchers and developers concerned with virtual reality software and technology. This paper, "Realistic haptic rendering of hyper-elastic material via measurement-based FEM model identification and real-time simulation" by the authors Arsen Abdulali, Ibragim Atadjanov, Seungkyu Lee and Seokhee Jeon [1], presents a haptic rendering framework that is capable of enhancing haptic feedback realism by means of an innovative, measurement-based modeling and rendering paradigm. [Extracted from the article]