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ZTE Communications ›› 2012, Vol. 10 ›› Issue (3): 39-46.

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Open Augmented Reality Standards: Current Activities in Standards-Development Organizations

Christine Perey   

  1. PEREY Research & Consulting, Route de Chernex 2B, 1820 Montreux, Switzerland
  • Received:2011-12-29 Online:2012-09-25 Published:2012-09-25
  • About author:Christine Perey (cperey@perey.com) is a Spime Wrangler and evangelist for augmented reality and the Internet of Things. She has 20 years experience in new multimedia communications markets and technologies. She received her BSc from Colorado State University in 1979. From 1991-1993, she worked in the technology industry as the epublisher and editor of the QuickTime Forum and was the founder of the QuickTime Movie Festival. She was invited to speak at mobile industry events and serves on committees dedicated to the advancement of rich media experiences in business and consumer markets. Perey is engaged in market development work and regularly prepares custom research reports for clients. She organizes a variety of technology industry meetings and communities, including the International AR Standards Community http://www.arstandards.org. Perey chairs face-to-face meetings and leads programs to drive the adoption of open and interoperable AR.

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Abstract: Augmented reality (AR) has emerged from research laboratories and is now being accepted in other domains as an attractive way of visualizing information. Before AR can be used in the mass market, there are a number of obstacles that need to be overcome. Several of these can be overcome by adopting open standards. A global grassroots community seeking open, interoperable AR content and experiences began to take shape in early 2010. This community is working collaboratively to reduce the barriers to the flow of data from content provider to AR end user. Standards development organizations and industry groups that provide open interfaces for AR meet regularly to provide updates, identify complementary work, and seek harmonization. The community also identifies deployer and implementer needs, communicates requirements, and discusses emerging challenges that could be resolved with standards. In this article, we describe current activities in international standards-development organizations. We summarize the AR standards gap analysis and shed light on special considerations for using standards in mobile AR.

Key words: augmented reality, standards, open interfaces, AR reference model