[x3d-public] Minutes of the X3D Working Group meeting held on Wednesday 4th October 2017 - Public Release

[Roy Walmsley]

Minutes of the X3D WG meeting held on Wednesday 4th October 2017 - Public
Release

Note: For Web3D members the full minutes are available at
http://web3d.org/mailman/private/x3d_web3d.org/2017-October/006383.html

 

Attendees: Roy Walmsley, Leonard Daly, Don Brutzman, Vince Marchetti, Anita
Havele,

Apologies received: Dick Puk.

 

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A. Outstanding matters

                

                None.

 

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B. Summary and Technical reports

Opportunity for anyone to make a short report on Web site, marketing,
communication, specification or technical matters that is not already on the
Agenda.

 

1.	Report on Mantis SG meeting held Thursday 28th September 2017

Reference:
http://web3d.org/mailman/private/x3d_web3d.org/2017-October/006355.html

 

Roy summarized 6 Mantis issues, of which two were agreed and updated to
Assigned, two needed feedback from the Geospatial Working Group and were
updated to Feedback, and the remaining two were updated to Acknowledged, as
more discussion was required.

 

2.	Report on Mantis SG meeting held Monday 2nd October 2017

Reference:
http://web3d.org/mailman/private/x3d_web3d.org/2017-October/006365.html

 

Roy summarized 3 Mantis issues, of which two were agreed and  updated to
Assigned, while the third was updated to Acknowledged.

 

3.	Updated HTML specification

Roy reported that the W3C HTML specification (https://www.w3.org/TR/html/)
is now at HTML 5.1 Edition 2 as of yesterday, 3rd October 2017. The list of
changes can be seen at https://www.w3.org/TR/html/changes.html#changes.

 

4.	Declarative WebVR Community Group

Leonard made a preliminary announcement that on November 6th 2017 at the W3C
TPAC the Declarative WebVR community group will have a meeting in the early
afternoon to discuss VR in a browser. The Declarative WebVR community group
is looking at developing an HTML extension for VR.

 

5.	VR and WebVR strategy statement

The issue of a Web3D Consortium strategy statement on VR and WebVR for V4.1
was raised. It was noted that we have the MAR reference model, ISO/IEC DIS
18039 (https://www.iso.org/standard/30824.html) currently processing through
ISO. Furthermore, WebVR (https://w3c.github.io/webvr/) is still an active
area of work. It was agreed to add this topic to next week's agenda.

 

6.	Indentation within message replies

Don reported that indentation (i.e. use of "<") within messages is
inconsistent. For example
http://web3d.org/mailman/private/x3d_web3d.org/2017-October/006367.html has
it, whereas
http://web3d.org/mailman/private/x3d_web3d.org/2017-September/006321.html
does not. Further investigation is needed.

 

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C. Discussion Topics

 

1.	X3D integration into HTML5 - Events and Event models

Reference:
http://www.web3d.org/wiki/index.php/X3D_V4_HTML_Integration_Requirements

 

Not discussed.

 

2.	Contribution Submission of Guidelines, Standards Adoption Process,
and Chapters

 

Member-only discussion.

 

3.	X3D/glTF features comparison

 

Member-only discussion.

 

4.	Release of Mantis subgroup meeting minutes to the public

 

Not discussed.

 

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D. Specification work, GitHub, and Mantis issues

 

None set.

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E. Schedule review

 

Other topics for discussion not yet assigned are:

 

Investigate other 3D display capabilities, e.g. CSS.

 

Timo Sturm of Fraunhofer to talk about advanced materials. Also with Max
Limper re SRC/glTF interoperability, X3DOM support and repeatability.

 

October 11th - (Apologies from Leonard)  VR strategy.

October 18th -

October 25th -

November 1st -

 

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F. Date and time of next meeting

 

October 11th 2017 at 0800 PDT 1600 BST 1500 UTC

 

Roy Walmsley

X3D WG co-chair

 

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