OGC, Khronos Group Work to Improve Geospatial and 3D Interoperability

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Thu, 10/11/2018 - 10:42 -- Nick Dager

The Open Geospatial Consortium and the Khronos Group are joining forces to 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, the two organizations will work jointly to develop use cases and requirements for open geospatial standards concerning 3D, virtual and augmented reality 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 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 said, “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 said, “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.”

The Khronos Group Khronos.org

The Open Geospatial Consortium www.opengeospatial.org