The community of people seeking to advance work towards open and interoperable AR will meet on April 18 and 19, 2016 in Aachen, Germany.
Meeting Goals
The face-to-face community meetings are designed to promote discussion among ecosystem stakeholders for the development of open and interoperable AR content and experiences.
In community-defined and led sessions, our goals are to:
- Discover new barriers to interoperability and discuss strategies to minimize their impacts
- Learn of continuing and newly initiated activities relevant to open and interoperable AR
- Discuss emerging challenges which may be addressed via standards or open source interfaces
- Plan for the community’s future by reviewing existing activities, chartering new work and scheduling meetings
Augmented Reality developers participating in the community are on the front lines to learn about and influence the direction of new tools. Developers encountering obstacles to audience reach and end user adoption as a result of proprietary technology silos are encouraged to attend to learn about the open specifications and APIs under development, and to provide their opinions.
All community members are invited to suggest topics for the agenda.
To Participate in the AR Community Meeting
Those planning to participate in the April 2016 AR Community Meeting should review the documentation of past meetings found via this page (go to “Past Events” table and find AR Community Meetings). Joining the mailing lists for the community is also highly recommended.
While this is an open meeting, advanced registration is required (see the next section).
Registration and Fees
To participate in the AR Community Meeting, complete the online registration form and pay fees.
| Ticket Type | Fee |
|---|---|
| AR Community Member-Beginning 11 March 2016 | Euro 180 |
| AR Community Member-Early Registration (ends midnight 10 March 2016) | Euro 120 |
Those who register prior to close of business April 15, 2016 will have badges issued and experience no delays upon arriving at the event venue.
What’s included
The social event beginning at 7:00 PM on evening of April 18 and two coffee breaks and lunch on both days are included in the meeting registration fee. Each participant will be responsible for their travel costs and other incidentals.
Agenda
The draft meeting agenda has been published. Anyone seeking to present during the April 2016 meeting is invited to submit a proposal following the April 2016 AR Community meeting speaking proposal and position paper guidelines.
The final agenda will be published on 10 April 2016.
A pre-reading materials list with position papers will be published on 10 April 2016.
Venue
The AR Community meeting will take place in the E3 seminar and the B-IT seminar room on the campus of the RWTH Aachen University in Aachen, Germany. Click on the thumbnail for higher resolution.
See this page for information about travel to RWTH Aachen University.
Meeting Host
The AR Community meeting is kindly hosted by the Advanced 
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unity Information Systems (ACIS) Group within the Information Systems Chair of RWTH Aachen University Computer Science, in collaboration with the Horizon 2020 WEKIT project.
Support
The April meeting is also supported by the IEEE Digital Senses Initiative which will hold a half day workshop in conjunction with this meeting of the community.
Organization
Meeting sessions and documents will be in English.
All notifications to participants will be made on this web page, to the AR Community Announcements mailing list, LinkedIn and as well as on relevant blogs and industry mailing lists.
Community Meetings Chair
The community meetings chair is Christine Perey, PEREY Research & Consulting.
If you wish to provide assistance to the community meetings and chair one or more sessions, please notify Christine Perey, chair.
Program Committee Members
The agenda of the AR Community meeting will be established by the chair and the Program Committee which reflects the needs and interests of the AR community.
Program Committee members for the April 2016 AR Community meeting include:
- Neil Trevett, NVIDIA and Khronos Group
- Fridolin Wild, Oxford Brookes University
- Ralf Klamma, RWTH-Aachen University
- Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT
- Marius Preda, Institut Telecom Sud-Paris
- Rob Manson, MOB Labs
- Rhonda Truitt, Huawei Technologies
- Qing Zhangqing, Huawei Technologies Media Lab
- Yu Yuan, IEEE Digital Senses Initiative
- Carl Byers, Contextere
- Gerry J. Kim, Korea University
Important Dates
Date Event
| 20 November 2015 | Meeting announced, information issued via this Web site |
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| 16 February 2016 | Meeting host and venue published | |
| 29 February 2016 | Deadline for topic/speaker abstract submissions | |
| 10 March 2016 | Early bird meeting registration fee period ends draft agenda published and full position papers due |
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| 10 April 2016 | Final agenda published | |
| 18 April 2016 | Meeting opens at 9:00 AM | |
| 19 April 2016 | Meeting closes at 4:00 PM |
Comments or Questions?
Please address all comments and questions regarding the April 2016 AR Community Meeting via e-mail to Christine Perey, chair.