[x3d-public] X3D Working Group teleconference 4 JAN 2018

[Brutzman, Donald (Don) (CIV)]

Happy New Year!  We will resume our regular X3D weekly teleconferences this Friday.

Many activities with excellent great progress are certainly happening.  8)

Agenda: review annual report inputs, review upcoming Korea Chapter meetings in Seoul, and discuss any other big plans people might have.

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X3D Working Group 2018 Report contributions
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VUMXWVKPeqy2Xwa5B6pBKpxcGiL_Hl8WcmSjkCQJUKM (includes links)

X3D Working Group Topics for inclusion in annual report.

a. X3D version 4.0 is our primary activity, supporting HTML5 and DOM.  Our emphasis is on producing specification prose and multiple implementations: X3DOM, X_ITE, Castle Game Engine and (likely) others. Current activities include  glTF focus on geometry meshes, Computer Aided Design (CAD) interoperability, 3D Printing and 3D Scanning interoperability, Humanoid Animation (HAnim) specification update.  More capabilities are being added such as Projective Texture Mapping (PTM) and advanced graphics capabilities.

b. X3D version 4.1 is proceeding in parallel and will add Mixed Augmented Reality (MAR) capabilities for diverse virtual and augmented reality (VR, AR) devices.

c. Streamlined specification process is empowering much coordinated simultaneous work.
- Web3D Standards Strategy is being executed, royalty free (RF) for any use.
- Coordinated set of steadily evolving ISO standards are publicly available on the Web
- Multiple data encodings and programming language bindings are functionally equivalent.
- X3D Unified Object Model (X3DUOM) provides formal expression of all relationships.
- Building and updating ISO specifications and X3D implementations for JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), Java, C, C++, C# and Python programming languages.

d. X3D Semantic Web Working Group summary: charter is under review with Board of Directors.  “The X3D Semantic Web Working Group mission is to publish models to the Web using X3D in order to best gain Web interoperability and enable intelligent 3D applications, feature-based 3D model querying, and reasoning over 3D scenes.”

e. Ongoing activity and support for tools adoption of X3D and achieving correct conformance.  Many further activities are listed on X3D Projects Wish List.

f. Liaisons:
    W3C for HTML5/DOM and multiple Web standards,
    ISO SC24 for ISO coordination and ratification,
    JTC-1 Working Group 9 on MAR Reference mode
    DICOM and HL7 for health informatics
    ISO SC4 TC184 for CAD printing and scanning

g. Korea Chapter activity holds fundamental importance. January 2019 meeting announcement lists many active research, development and application efforts.
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all the best, Don
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Don Brutzman  Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br       brutzman at nps.edu
Watkins 270,  MOVES Institute, Monterey CA 93943-5000 USA   +1.831.656.2149
X3D graphics, virtual worlds, navy robotics http://faculty.nps.edu/brutzman