[x3d-public] Fwd: [TC-Announce] OGC and Khronos Form a Liaison to Improve Interoperability between the Geospatial and 3D Graphics Communities

Thu Oct 11 11:37:06 PDT 2018

Thanks for sharing. Apart from AR/VR, I think this liaison has to be
seen in the context of glTF which has roots in Cesium, a leading
virtual globe.

GIS has a complicated relationship with 3d and it will be exciting to
see if there will be a more concerted effort to leap out from maps to
3d space.

ESRI has its own 3d technology and standard. QGIS, a leading
opensource GIS alternative, just started to have some 3d viz.
capability. When QGIS 3 is completely stabilized, I may continue to
develop my QGIS processing toolbox for flexibly generating geospatial
X3D scenes from GIS rasters and coverages:

https://github.com/andreasplesch/QGIS-X3D-Processing

Best,

-Andreas

> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 08:03:32 -0700
> From: Leonard Daly <Leonard.Daly at realism.com>
> To: Web3D Consortium <consortium at web3d.org>, X3D Public
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> Subject: [x3d-public] Fwd: [TC-Announce] OGC and Khronos Form a
>         Liaison to Improve Interoperability between the Geospatial and 3D
>         Graphics Communities
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> This was from the OGC yesterday. I am forwarding it because it appears
> that it is not common knowledge.
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> Leonard Daly
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> OGC
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>     *OGC and Khronos Form a Liaison to Improve Interoperability between
>     the Geospatial and 3D Graphics Communities*
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> /New liaison will advance open geospatial standards related to augmented
> and virtual reality, distributed simulation, and 3D content services/
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> <http://mail.opengeospatial.org/lists/lt.php?tid=fR4JVVRQUgdUAR0GVFwCSFADAVYZCVVcURldBQdVAFNUUFMBVwZKUlEFAQACDVJIXQZSVRkEBVVWGVhRUloVAQRSUlEAUgdTV1QIGVALVlJdVgcEGVIJBlQZDQcFUhUPBFsIGVZbBQZTUQkBBwpTBw>
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> Contact: info at opengeospatial.org <mailto:info at opengeospatial.org>
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> 10 October, 2018: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and The Khronos?
> Group
> <http://mail.opengeospatial.org/lists/lt.php?tid=fR4JVVBRA1dfVx1cUw8ESFACAlYZCVACUBkIVlpXXFYBWwYBXVtKUlEFAQACDVJIXQZSVRkEBVVWGVhRUloVAQRSUlEAUgdTV1QIGVALVlJdVgcEGVIJBlQZDQcFUhUPBFsIGVZbBQZTUQkBBwpTBw>,
>  ?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.
>
> As part of the liaison, and through collaborative participation in OGC
> and Khronos initiatives ? such as working groups, committee activities,
> Innovation Program Initiatives
> <http://mail.opengeospatial.org/lists/lt.php?tid=fR4GBQMABQFUVh0ABA9USFADB1EZCAgHABldAFMHW1YFVVRSXFZKUlEFAQACDVJIXQZSVRkEBVVWGVhRUloVAQRSUlEAUgdTV1QIGVALVlJdVgcEGVIJBlQZDQcFUhUPBFsIGVZbBQZTUQkBBwpTBw>
> (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.
>
> 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.
>
> Further, OGC will adopt published Khronos standards as part of the OGC
> Standards Baseline
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> where it believes their inclusion to be appropriate, or where Khronos
> standards are normatively referenced by OGC standards.
>
> 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.?
>
> 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.?
>
> OGC and Khronos have previously worked together on web visualization
> standards, such as the OGC 3D Portrayal Standard
> <http://mail.opengeospatial.org/lists/lt.php?tid=fR4JAwFbVQVTAR0HVg4ESFBSDlUZCVddURldAAdTDAYNVQgFXVRKUlEFAQACDVJIXQZSVRkEBVVWGVhRUloVAQRSUlEAUgdTV1QIGVALVlJdVgcEGVIJBlQZDQcFUhUPBFsIGVZbBQZTUQkBBwpTBw>,
> and Khronos members have actively contributed to the OGC 3D Information
> Management Domain Working Group
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> and various standards efforts that have emerged from that group.
>
> *About Khronos*
>
> 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?, 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
> Khronos.org
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> *About OGC*
>
> 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 www.opengeospatial.org
> <http://mail.opengeospatial.org/lists/lt.php?tid=fR4DAwZRAQFXAh1WVgpYSFBWDg8ZUgUAAxkOUgZaWQQMAVVRUFJKUlEFAQACDVJIXQZSVRkEBVVWGVhRUloVAQRSUlEAUgdTV1QIGVALVlJdVgcEGVIJBlQZDQcFUhUPBFsIGVZbBQZTUQkBBwpTBw>.
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> *Khronos Press Contact:*
> Alex Crabb, Caster Communications Inc.
> alex at castercomm.com
> (+1)-401-792-7080
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