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This was from the OGC yesterday. I am forwarding it because it
appears that it is not common knowledge.<br>
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Leonard Daly<br>
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<h2 dir="ltr"><strong><span
id="docs-internal-guid-b4e86b60-7fff-6465-1090-fe2c353406c2">OGC
and Khronos Form a Liaison to Improve Interoperability
between the Geospatial and 3D Graphics Communities</span></strong></h2>
<p dir="ltr"><em><span
id="docs-internal-guid-b4e86b60-7fff-6465-1090-fe2c353406c2">New
liaison will advance open geospatial standards related to
augmented and virtual reality, distributed simulation, and
3D content services</span></em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><a
href="http://mail.opengeospatial.org/lists/lt.php?tid=fR4JVVRQUgdUAR0GVFwCSFADAVYZCVVcURldBQdVAFNUUFMBVwZKUlEFAQACDVJIXQZSVRkEBVVWGVhRUloVAQRSUlEAUgdTV1QIGVALVlJdVgcEGVIJBlQZDQcFUhUPBFsIGVZbBQZTUQkBBwpTBw"
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<p dir="ltr"><span
id="docs-internal-guid-b4e86b60-7fff-6465-1090-fe2c353406c2">Contact:
</span><a href="mailto:info@opengeospatial.org"
moz-do-not-send="true">info@opengeospatial.org</a></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span
id="docs-internal-guid-b4e86b60-7fff-6465-1090-fe2c353406c2">10
October, 2018: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and </span><a
href="http://mail.opengeospatial.org/lists/lt.php?tid=fR4JVVBRA1dfVx1cUw8ESFACAlYZCVACUBkIVlpXXFYBWwYBXVtKUlEFAQACDVJIXQZSVRkEBVVWGVhRUloVAQRSUlEAUgdTV1QIGVALVlJdVgcEGVIJBlQZDQcFUhUPBFsIGVZbBQZTUQkBBwpTBw"
moz-do-not-send="true">The Khronos® Group</a>, an open
consortium of leading hardware and software companies creating
advanced acceleration standards, announce a liaison to jointly
advance open geospatial standards related to the fields of
augmented and virtual reality, distributed simulation, and 3D
content services.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><span
id="docs-internal-guid-b4e86b60-7fff-6465-1090-fe2c353406c2">As
part of the liaison, and through collaborative participation
in OGC and Khronos initiatives — such as working groups,
committee activities, </span><a
href="http://mail.opengeospatial.org/lists/lt.php?tid=fR4GBQMABQFUVh0ABA9USFADB1EZCAgHABldAFMHW1YFVVRSXFZKUlEFAQACDVJIXQZSVRkEBVVWGVhRUloVAQRSUlEAUgdTV1QIGVALVlJdVgcEGVIJBlQZDQcFUhUPBFsIGVZbBQZTUQkBBwpTBw"
moz-do-not-send="true">Innovation Program Initiatives</a>
(e.g., Testbeds, Pilots), regional forums, and workshops — the
two organizations will work jointly to develop use cases and
requirements for open geospatial standards concerning 3D, VR and
AR APIs and related graphical representations.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><span
id="docs-internal-guid-b4e86b60-7fff-6465-1090-fe2c353406c2">OGC
and Khronos will together assess the current state of adopted
and de facto standards within the above fields and consider
collaborative publication of one or more of those standards,
while also identifying any future potential standards that
will facilitate the interoperability of relevant data and
hardware capabilities for the sharing and analysis of
geospatial data.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span
id="docs-internal-guid-b4e86b60-7fff-6465-1090-fe2c353406c2">Further,
OGC will adopt published Khronos standards as part of the </span><a
href="http://mail.opengeospatial.org/lists/lt.php?tid=fR4EUABVAVxeVR0GB1pYSFBTAwAZUQVVARlaVwdSWg4MVQYHAVpKUlEFAQACDVJIXQZSVRkEBVVWGVhRUloVAQRSUlEAUgdTV1QIGVALVlJdVgcEGVIJBlQZDQcFUhUPBFsIGVZbBQZTUQkBBwpTBw"
moz-do-not-send="true">OGC Standards Baseline</a> where it
believes their inclusion to be appropriate, or where Khronos
standards are normatively referenced by OGC standards.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><span
id="docs-internal-guid-b4e86b60-7fff-6465-1090-fe2c353406c2">OGC
Executive Director of the Standards Program, Scott Simmons,
commented: “OGC and Khronos share many common members and
objectives, and the two organizations have collaborated
informally for years. In establishing this relationship, our
organizations can more effectively align 3D data and graphic
standards to offer developers and users a more concise and
consistent set of options for 3D visualization and
processing.”</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span
id="docs-internal-guid-b4e86b60-7fff-6465-1090-fe2c353406c2">Khronos
Group President, Neil Trevett commented: “Khronos greatly
values our productive working relationship with OGC, and we
are highly motivated by this formal liaison to enable even
more effective cooperation. We see strong alignment between
the organizations and welcome the opportunity to work together
to provide a strong standards-based foundation for OGC to
portably access 3D, VR, and AR hardware and assets. Together,
we can enable the geospatial community with exciting new
capabilities.”</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span
id="docs-internal-guid-b4e86b60-7fff-6465-1090-fe2c353406c2">OGC
and Khronos have previously worked together on web
visualization standards, such as the </span><a
href="http://mail.opengeospatial.org/lists/lt.php?tid=fR4JAwFbVQVTAR0HVg4ESFBSDlUZCVddURldAAdTDAYNVQgFXVRKUlEFAQACDVJIXQZSVRkEBVVWGVhRUloVAQRSUlEAUgdTV1QIGVALVlJdVgcEGVIJBlQZDQcFUhUPBFsIGVZbBQZTUQkBBwpTBw"
moz-do-not-send="true">OGC 3D Portrayal Standard</a>, and
Khronos members have actively contributed to the <a
href="http://mail.opengeospatial.org/lists/lt.php?tid=fR4EDFBWAQcFWh0BAgxQSFACBlQZCFJVBBkABVUCXlUGUgYCBAZKUlEFAQACDVJIXQZSVRkEBVVWGVhRUloVAQRSUlEAUgdTV1QIGVALVlJdVgcEGVIJBlQZDQcFUhUPBFsIGVZbBQZTUQkBBwpTBw"
moz-do-not-send="true">OGC 3D Information Management Domain
Working Group</a> and various standards efforts that have
emerged from that group.</p>
<p> </p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span
id="docs-internal-guid-b4e86b60-7fff-6465-1090-fe2c353406c2">About
Khronos</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span
id="docs-internal-guid-b4e86b60-7fff-6465-1090-fe2c353406c2">The
Khronos Group is an industry consortium creating open
standards to enable the authoring and acceleration of parallel
computing, graphics, vision and machine learning on a wide
variety of platforms and devices. Khronos standards include
Vulkan</span>®, OpenGL®, OpenGL® ES, OpenGL® SC, WebGL™,
COLLADA™, OpenXR™ and glTF™. Khronos members are enabled to
contribute to the development of Khronos specifications, are
empowered to vote at various stages before public deployment,
and are able to accelerate the delivery of their cutting-edge
accelerated platforms and applications through early access to
specification drafts and conformance tests. For more information
about The Khronos Group visit <a
href="http://mail.opengeospatial.org/lists/lt.php?tid=fR4JVVBRA1dfVx1cUw8ESFACAlYZCVACUBkIVlpXXFYBWwYBXVtKUlEFAQACDVJIXQZSVRkEBVVWGVhRUloVAQRSUlEAUgdTV1QIGVALVlJdVgcEGVIJBlQZDQcFUhUPBFsIGVZbBQZTUQkBBwpTBw"
moz-do-not-send="true">Khronos.org</a>.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span
id="docs-internal-guid-b4e86b60-7fff-6465-1090-fe2c353406c2">About
OGC</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span
id="docs-internal-guid-b4e86b60-7fff-6465-1090-fe2c353406c2">The
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international
consortium of more than 525 companies, government agencies,
research organizations, and universities participating in a
consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial
standards. OGC standards support interoperable solutions that
‘geo-enable’ the Web, wireless and location-based services,
and mainstream IT. OGC standards empower technology developers
to make geospatial information and services accessible and
useful within any application that needs to be geospatially
enabled. Visit the OGC website at </span><a
href="http://mail.opengeospatial.org/lists/lt.php?tid=fR4DAwZRAQFXAh1WVgpYSFBWDg8ZUgUAAxkOUgZaWQQMAVVRUFJKUlEFAQACDVJIXQZSVRkEBVVWGVhRUloVAQRSUlEAUgdTV1QIGVALVlJdVgcEGVIJBlQZDQcFUhUPBFsIGVZbBQZTUQkBBwpTBw"
moz-do-not-send="true">www.opengeospatial.org</a>.</p>
<p> </p>
<p dir="ltr"><span
id="docs-internal-guid-b4e86b60-7fff-6465-1090-fe2c353406c2"><strong>Khronos
Press Contact:</strong><br>
Alex Crabb, Caster Communications Inc.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:alex@castercomm.com">alex@castercomm.com</a><br>
(+1)-401-792-7080</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"> </p>
<p dir="ltr"><em><strong><span>This press release is also
available online at:
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/2885">www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/2885</a> <br>
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