Overview of event
The community of people seeking to advance work towards open and interoperable AR will meet on March 26-27, 2014 in Arlington, VA.
Meeting Goals
The face-to-face community meetings are designed to promote the discussion among ecosystem stakeholders for the development of open and interoperable AR content and experiences. During the meeting on March 26, we will work side by side with AR industry leaders and SDO Work Group chairs to:
- learn the status of activities and discuss progress in all relevant standards development organizations, including
- learn the status of the Mixed and Augmented Reality Reference Model
- continue development of the community resources including but not limited to
- the AR Use Cases and Scenarios
- the AR Standards Glossary of terms
- AR Standards landscape and status of each SDO’s activities in the area of AR
- Hands-free display and context capture system requirements and standards, and
- AR Interoperability requirements, experimental methodology and testing procedures
- discuss emerging challenges which may be addressed via standards or open source interfaces.
Augmented Reality developers participating in the community are on the front lines to learn about and influence the direction of new tools. The 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. The position papers and recommended reading for the previous community meeting are available on this page.
To Participate in the AR Community Meeting
Those planning to participate in the March 2014 AR Community meeting should review the documentation of the 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. We are meeting in conjunction with the OGC Technical Committee meeting hosted by Lockheed Martin in Arlington, Virginia on March 24-28, 2014. For the agenda and additional information about the OGC TC, visit this page.
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 public AR Community meeting, complete the on-line registration formand pay fees.
| Ticket Type | Fee |
|---|---|
| AR Community Member-After 3 March | $400 |
| AR Community Member-Early Registration (ends midnight 2 March) | $350 |
| Open Geospatial Consoritum Member-After 3 March | $200 |
| Open Geospatial Consortium Member–Early Registration | $150 |
| March 27 Reception Guest Ticket | $75 |
| AR for Enterprise Alliance (AREA) Member | $0 |
Coffee breaks and lunch on March 26 and the reception on March 27 will be included in full meeting registration fee. A limited number of pre-paid guests may join the March 27 reception. Purchase your “Reception guest” tickets using the meeting registration form.
Each participant will be responsible for their travel costs, meals and other incidentals.
Agenda
The draft meeting agenda is available and subject to change at the organizers’ discretion.
Interoperability Showcase Organized by OGC
The AR Community meeting participants are invited to participate in presentation of the OGC Interoperability Program’s Tenth Testbed results presentations and showcase. OWS testbeds are part of OGC’s Interoperability Program, a global, hands-on and collaborative prototyping program designed to rapidly develop, test and deliver proven candidate specifications into OGC’s Standards Program, where they are formalized for public release.
More information about the OGC OWS-10 interoperability showcase will be available on this page as soon as it is released.
Venue
The March 2014 AR Community meeting will be conducted in Salon A at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel.
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Sponsors and Host
We are proud to receive the support of the IEEE Standards Assocation 
and the Khronos Group as sponsors. 
We also appreciate the support of the Open Geospatial Consortium,
our meeting host.
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, LinkedIn and 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 invited by the AR Alliance members to reflect the needs and interests of the AR community. As soon as our program committee has been confirmed we will publish its member names and affiliations here.
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
Important Dates
Date Event
27 January 2014 Meeting announced, information issued via Web site 27 January 2014 Call for participation and position papers issued 27 January 2014 Draft Agenda published 18 February 2014 Deadline for position paper abstracts 03 March 2014 Deadline for final position papers 03 March 2014 Early bird meeting registration fee period ends 10 March 2014 Final Agenda published 26 March 2014 Meeting opens at 1:30 PM 27 March 2014 Meeting closes at 1:30 PM
Comments or Questions?
Please address all comments and questions regarding the March 2014 AR Community meeting via e-mail to Christine Perey, chair.