AR Community Meeting | Cambridge, MA | March 24-25, 2015

The community of people seeking to advance work towards open and interoperable AR will meet on March 24-25, 2015 in Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA).

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.

We will receive updates about standards under development from Standards Development Organization spokespeople and work group chairs including but not limited to:

• Khronos Group
• ISO/JTC SC 29 Working Group 11
• ISO/JTC SC 24 Working Group 9 on AR
• In-location Alliance
• Web3D Consortium
• W3C
• IEEE Standards Association
• Open Geospatial Consortium
• MIPI Alliance
• OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) Technical Committee
• Society of Information Display
• NISO 

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 via submission of position papers.

Position Papers

In addition to the invited speaker presentations and moderated plenary collaborations, contributions to the AR Community may be made in advance of the meeting in the form of position papers. Submitters are requested to follow published guidelines for position papers.

To Participate in the AR Community Meeting

Those planning to participate in the March 2015 AR Community meeting should review the documentation of the past meetings found on this page (go to “Past Events” table and find AR Community meetings). Joining the mailing lists for the community is also highly recommended.

If you have any questions, please contact Christine Perey. If you cannot attend in person, we hope to be streaming live via Hangout during many of the sessions.

Registration and Fees

To participate in the AR Community meeting, complete the online registration form and pay fees.

The social event beginning at 7:30 PM on March 24 and two coffee breaks and lunch on March 24 and 25 are included in the meeting registration fee. Each participant will be responsible for their travel costs and other incidentals.

Agenda

The draft agenda for the March 2015 meeting will be published on December 15 2015.

Venue

The AR Community meeting will be conducted on the MIT campus in the Media Lab. The address is 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA USA.

Sponsors and Host

We are proud to receive the support of the Fluid Interfaces Group of the MIT Media Lab and the Khronos Group as sponsors.

Organization

Meeting sessions and documents will be in English.

All notifications to participants will be made by way of this web page, to the AR Standards announcements mailing list and LinkedIn, as well as posted to relevant blogs and industry mailing lists.

Community Meetings Chair

• 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 this meeting will be established by the chair and the Program Committee members to reflect the needs and interests of the AR community.

Program Committee members for the tenth meeting include:

• George Percivall, Open Geospaital Consortium
• Neil Trevett, NVIDIA and Khronos Group
• Anita Havele, Web3D Consortium
• Martin Lechner, Wikitude
• Jens de Smit, Layar
• Timo Engelke, Fraunhofer IGD
• Marius Preda, Institut Telecom Sud-Paris
• Blair MacIntyre, Georgia Tech Augmented Environments Lab
• Rob Manson, MOB Labs
• Carl Byers, NGRAIN
• Mary Lynne Nielsen, IEEE Standards Association
• Natan Linder, MIT Media Lab

Important Dates

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Comments or Questions?

Please address all comments and questions regarding the March 2015 AR Community meeting via e-mail to Christine Perey, chair