This document summarizes the first meeting of an AR standards development group held in Seoul, Korea. The meeting brought together developers, researchers, standards organizations and industry groups to discuss AR terminology, use cases, existing standards, and gaps. Participants mapped the AR technology landscape, compared markup languages, and identified next steps to increase involvement from additional communities to further the development of AR standards. The group plans to continue their work at a future meeting in Barcelona.

1. Where
are we
now?
AR DevCamp Bay Area
December 4, 2010
Christine Perey
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Where are we going?
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2. Objectives
• Establish cross-organizational community
• Scan available standards
• Identify gaps in today’s standards
• Establish common vocabulary
• Compare proposals/approaches
• Develop extensions to existing standards
and new standards where needed
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3. How?
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5. First Meeting At-a-Glance
October 11-12, 2010
• Developers and companies
Seoul, Korea
• Research labs and Universities
• Standards organizations
– W3C
– ISO 37 registered
31 physically present
– Open GeoSpatial Consortium 50+ joined us via live stream
• Industry consortia
– Khronos Group
– OMA
– Web3D Consortium
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6. What did we create?
• Landscape topics and standards/consortia
• AR terminology
• Three AR use cases
• AR Architectural Diagram
• Comparison of Markup Languages for AR
• X3D (3D) Discussion
• AR needs from Khronos Group (hardware)
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7. Check out the Outputs page
• http://www.perey.com/
ARStandardsMeetingOutputs.html
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8. AR Topics Landscape and
Relevant Organizations
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9. Content
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11. AR Terminology
• “Native” AR terms and synonyms
• Other communities
– Semantic Web
– Geo-spatial
– Developers, User Experience Designers
– Computer Vision
– Social
– End Users
– Gamers
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12. AR use cases proposal
• To extract concrete components
• Determine which components in common
• Prioritize focus for future work
• Three “Generic”
– Guide
– Create
– Play
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13. Guide
• A system which leads the user through
a process involving real world
OBJECT
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14. Create
• A system with which the user attaches/contributes
a digital content “object” to or in the real world
Personal
Content
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15. Play
• A system which supports bi-directional
interaction between users and the real world
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16. Markup Languages
• KHARMA and Argon
• ARML
• Patterns of Interest
• X3D+
• KML vs. RDF+Multimedia Markup Languages
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17. Markup Language
Comparison
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18. Conclusion
• Lack of knowledge in some areas
– Content communities?
• We need more inputs from more communities
• Shake the trees
– Researchers
• Not the focus
– Developers
• They don’t have a revenue model for being in the room
– Content providers (publishers)
• They don’t know it’s happening
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19. Strategies for increasing involvement
• Good content
• Upcoming meetings calendar
• Persistent communications
• Invite content publishers/developers inputs
• AR DevCamp
• AR meetup
• Continue the broader standards approach
– Multi-standards representations
– Vertical markets (e.g., health/medicine, building, etc)
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20. Next Meeting
• Barcelona, Spain
• February 17 to February 19 (Sat), 2011
– Immediately following Mobile World Congress
• Hosted by Telefonica I&D
• Position Paper deadline is January 17, 2011
• http://www.perey.com/ARStandardsMeetingFeb2011.html
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21. Community is building
• International AR Standards mailing lists
– http://ARstandards.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
– http://ARstandards.org/mailman/listinfo/news
• W3C POI WG
– Main page http://www.w3.org/2010/POI/
– Public mailing list
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-poiwg/
– Members meeting Dec 14-15 in Atlanta, GA
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22. AR: Continuing what the Web began
Christine Perey
PEREY Research & Consulting
www.perey.com
cperey@perey.com
+41 79 436 68 69
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