2 November 2012 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®)seeks public comment on the candidate OGC Augmented Reality Markup Language (ARML)2.0 Encoding Standard.
ARML2.0 provides an interchange format for Augmented Reality applications todescribe and interact with objects in an AR scene, with a focus on mobile, vision-basedAR. The candidate standard describes the virtual objects that are placed intoan AR scene, as well as the registration of the virtual objects in the realworld, and allows interaction with and dynamic modification of the AR sceneusing ECMAScript bindings.
ARML2.0 emerged from ARML 1.0, developed by the creators of the Wikitude WorldBrowser, and was completely remodeled within the OGC ARML 2.0 Standards WorkingGroup to fit existing AR use cases.
TheOGC ARML 2.0 Standards Working Group has set a specific focus on a generic wayto describe Trackers in an Augmented Reality environment, allowing users todefine a multitude of Trackers, such as Marker-Trackers, Face-Trackers, NaturalFeature Trackers and even non-vision-based Trackers, to allow a multitude of ARuse cases to be implemented with ARML 2.0.
The OGC ARML 2.0 Encoding Standard Evaluation Package isfree and can be downloaded from http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/94.The deadline for comments is 2 December 2012.
The OGC is an international consortium of more than 465companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universitiesparticipating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatialstandards. OGC Standards support interoperable solutions that”geo-enable” the Web, wireless and location-based services, andmainstream IT. OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatialinformation and services accessible and useful with any application that needsto be geospatially enabled. Visit the OGC website at http://www.opengeospatial.org/contact.
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