This is the agenda for the Ninth Meeting of the AR Standards Community. The Program Committee develops the agenda, taking into account the needs of the community and developers who contribute position papers for our consideration.
Agenda At-A-Glance
Click on Session Title in the table below to jump to the full session description, more information on how to participate and speaker names.
May 29, 2013
| ID | Time (EDT, New York) | Session Title |
| 1 | 9:00-9:15 AM | Welcome, meeting kick-off |
| 2 | 9:15 AM-10:30 AM | SDO Presentations Block A |
| 10:30 AM-10:50 AM | Coffee Break | |
| 3 | 10:50 AM-12:30 PM | SDO Presentations Block B |
| 12:30 PM-1:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 4 | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM | Web-based AR Challenges and Opportunities |
| 5 | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM | AR User Interaction and Personal Data Ecosystem |
| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM | Coffee Break | |
| 6 | 3:30 PM-4:30 PM | AR Interoperability |
| 7 | 4:30 PM-6:00 PM | Designing for Hands-free AR Experiences |
| 7:00 PM-9:00 PM |
Social Event at the Eyebeam Art + Technology Center 540 West 21st St, New York |
May 30, 2013
| ID | Time (EDT, New York) | Session Title |
| 8 | 9:00 AM-9:15 AM | Welcome to day two |
| 9 | 9:15 AM-10:15 AM | New Opportunities and Challenges Block A |
| 10:15 AM-10:30 AM | Coffee Break | |
| 10 | 10:30 AM-11:30 AM | New Opportunities and Challenges Block B |
| 11 | 11:30 AM-12:30 PM | Live Demonstrations |
| 12:30 PM-1:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 12 | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM | Multi-SDO collaboration on 3D Compression and Transmission |
| 13 | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM |
AR Use Cases and AR Glossary Task Force report, Update AR Standards Lists and Landscape |
| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM | Coffee Break | |
| 14 | 3:30 PM-4:30 PM | Conclusions and Next Steps |
Detailed Session Descriptions
Session 1
Title: Opening Address
The meeting chair, Christine Perey, kicked off the meeting with a short welcome presentation. This is the presentation for the opening session.
Session 2 and 3
Title: SDO Presentations
There are multiple international Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) seeking to increase AR reach (audience), flexibility and robustness of final services to end users. The domains of expertise, memberships, Intellectual Property policies and view points of these SDOs differ.
The objective of sessions 2 and 3 is to permit each Standards Development Organization currently working separately to report on its progress since the Eighth AR Standards Community Meeting or since it's last report to the community members.
We also seek to include any SDO that has not previously participated in AR Standards Community meetings but that is exploring the extension of existing (or development of new) standards to contribute a presentation during this session.
Presentations run 20 minutes each unless arranged in advance.
| Standards Development Organization | Speaker/Representative |
|---|---|
|
Khronos Group [slides]
|
Neil Trevett, NVIDIA
Michael Bourges Sevenier, Aptina |
|
MIPI Alliance [slides] |
Peter Lefkin, MIPI Alliance |
| Web3D Consortium [slides] | Anita Havele, Web3D Consortium |
|
Open Geospatial Consortium [slides]
|
George Percivall, OGC
|
| NISO [slides] | Todd Carpenter, NISO |
| W3C [slides] | Lars Erik Bolstad, Opera Software |
| IEEE Standards Association [slides] | Mary Lynne Nielsen, IEEE SA |
Session 4
Title: Web-based AR challenges and opportunities
During this session we will hear and discuss proposals for advancing Web-based AR experiences through the use of open standards.
Felix Klein, DFKI and University Saarland (Germany), will present XML3D, an extension to HTML5 for declarative 3D graphics, and Xflow, a declarative language for dataflow processing, provide a high-level framework to develop AR applications on the Web. [slides]
Anita Havele, Web 3D Consortium, will briefly summarize the status of the W3C Declarative 3D Community Group. [slides]
Rob Manson, BuildAR and MOB Labs, will provide an update on the Augmented Web Community Group and explain the status of adoption of AR-enabling standards in Web-based experiences.
Session 5
Title: AR User Interaction and Personal Data Ecosystem
End users are at the center of Augmented Reality and yet we often neglect to consider how they will behave and the concerns they will have when AR-enabled systems are detecting their every action and movement.
In this session, Mikel Salazar, Deustotech Computing and University of Deusto, will share his reservations about existing AR user input designs and draft standards, and propose a three-dimensional user interface description language based on XML and specifically designed for Augmented Reality systems. This language aims to provide developers with an easier and more interoperable way to create user interfaces seamlessly integrated into the real world, making the user interaction much more intuitive and engaging. slides
Kaliya Hamlin, founder and executive director of the Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium, will provide an overview of technologies and approaches for AR experience developers to ensure that end users have access to and can control their personal data. She will raise questions and highlight key challenges that AR will encounter unless we proactively build systems that protect identity and personal data. slides
Session 6
Title: AR Interoperability
What is AR interoperability? When and where is interoperability essential to the advancement of Augmented Reality and how can it be advanced through standards and open interfaces?
We will begin with a status update and short discussion about steps community members have taken towards development of AR interoperability testing methodologies, protocols and content with the goal of coordinating with all relevant SDOs to contribute to successful implementation of an international AR interoperability experiment.
What can be learned from similar industries that have developed interoperability? During this session Carl Byers, NGrain, will summarize the distributed interoperable simulation development and implementation standards and review the extent to which the outcomes and lessons learned in that process can be used as a springboard by the emergent AR community. [slides].
Session 7
Title: Designing for Hands-Free AR Experiences
During this session we will hear about the first Hands-Free Display SDKs, particularly how these can be used to develop AR experiences for hands-free display users.
| Title/Topic | Speaker | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Challenges for Designing Hands-Free AR interfaces: a Developer's Point of View [slides] | Frank Rodriguez | Augmate |
| Middleware and Developer Tools for Hands-Free AR Experiences [slides] | Brian Ballard, CEO | APX Labs |
| Vuzix M100 SDK, using Open Interfaces and Data Formats [slides] | Ben Taber | Vuzix |
Session 8
Title: Welcome to Day Two
The meeting chair will summarize the results of the first day and open the continuation of the meeting, including introductions of people who were unable to participate earlier.
Session 9 and 10
Title: New Opportunities and Challenges for AR
Presentations by developers covering a variety of new issues that will soon or are already impeding the growth of the industry, or new opportunities for collaboration towards AR growth in the near future.
- Open Stand: the modern paradigm for standards, presented by Mary Lynne Nielsen, IEEE SA slides
- Visual search, image recognition and tracking challenges for mobile AR in the real world, Borislava Krasteva, Seac02 slides
- Easy and natural discovery of AR experiences in daily life, Christine Perey, PEREY Research & Consulting slides
- Urban AR: Opportunities and Challenges, Andrea Carignano, Seac02 slides
- Use of AR in Biotech Manufacturing, Frank Maggiore, Sartorius Stedim Biotech
Session 11
Title: Live Demonstrations
The participants of the meeting are invited to provide examples of current applications and best practices that demonstrate the use of standards or where open APIs and OpenSource project are in use or could be developed to meet current obstacles to growth.
The information about this session is on a separate page dedicated to Ninth meeting demonstrations.
Session 12
Title: Multi-SDO Collaboration on 3D Compression and Transmission
3D Compression and Transmission requirements have been the focus of collaboration between Khronos Group, Web3D Consortium and MPEG. During this session, led by Neil Trevett, we will receive a status report, invite discussion on the current work and solicit inputs from meeting participants.[Khronos Group slides, Web3D slides]
Session 13
Title:AR Community Glossary and Use Cases Task Force reports
Meeting participants will receive a status report from the AR Glossary Task Force and participate in discussion about next steps (join AR Glossary mailing list on this page). [slides]
During this session there will also be a discussion of the community AR Use Cases resource and a report by the task force (join mailing list on this page).
Session 14
Title: Conclusions and Next Steps
The delegates of the meeting will collaborate for this final session to define the next steps they wish their organizations and institutes to pursue and to chart out the future.