THE PREMIER CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION IN COMPUTER GRAPHICS & INTERACTIVE TECHNIQUES
BUILDING THEOPEN METAVERSE
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Neil TrevettPresident, [email protected]@neilt3d
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How Will the Metaverse Evolve?
Evolution will be organicDarwinian mix of ideas, innovations, commercial successes and failuresOverlapping, messy, synergistic,
awesome experimentation
Proven solutions will emerge and be widely adopted
Providing the foundation for the next round of innovation
No one design or roadmap can serve all needs and solve all problems …
Synthetic visual reality, practical XR optics, real-time environment scanning and semantic understanding,
accurate physical simulations, effective remote social interactions, server scaling to millions of users,
streaming of vast geospatial data sets, real-world geo-anchoring with persistence, universal digital twins,
online personas and social connections, realistic avatars, universally sharable consumer assets, security, privacy,
interoperable run-times, online economies and currencies IOT sensor networks, pervasive low-latency
wireless connectivity … and many more …Significant opportunities for all companies
contributing to metaverse solutions!
Decentralized embodied Web, spanning the real and virtual worldsAdvanced user interfaces, social interaction and persistence
Wide variety of services, platforms and experiences
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Interoperability for Global ScalingMaking the metaverse
ubiquitous will involve a constellation of standards!
IEC 60038 Standard voltagesIEC 60228 Conductors of insulated cables
IEC 60269 Low-voltage power fusesIEC 60320 C13 Connectors and C14 Inlets
IEC 60884 Household Plugs And Socket-OutletsIEC 61970 APIs for energy management systems
Widely adopted platforms require multiple standards
Standards are the basis for ubiquitous infrastructure
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Open Standards and Open Source
Open Standard = Shared Specification
Implementation
Implementation Implementation
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Implementation
Best When …Competitive advantage in implementation innovation
Industry needs multiple implementationsNeed a stable design target
But..Can take time to generate consensus on a new version
Conformance testing is vital
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Open Source = Shared Implementation
Best When …No competitive advantage in implementation
Industry consensus to share implementation resourcingNeed rapid updates
But..Can fork and fragment
Need governance model clarity
INTEROPERABILITY standards define precise COMMUNICATIONThrough a specification that enables multiple conformant implementations
True OPEN standards are not controlled by any single companyStandards Developing Organizations (SDOs) enable industry cooperation
Inclusive participation, well-defined governance and intellectual property frameworks
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Proprietary Products and Technologies
Rapid InnovationDarwinian testing ground
Smart Innovators can retain long-term advantage
Complex and Interdependent
Relationship
Technology becomes ProvenBusiness interests are better served
by cooperation than competition
Areas of Emerging Consensus Beachhead standardization opportunities
Proprietary Technology and Open Standards
Multi-company GovernanceOpen Standards
Do not R&D!!Satisfy wider need for technologies
Thread of continuity for industry forward progress
Standards Move the Industry Forward Frees competitive energy to find new ways
to innovate value
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Metaverse-Relevant Khronos Standards
Portable XRAR and VR runtimes,
HMDs and UI
Run-time Optimized 3D AssetsFor pervasive deployment and
interoperability
3D Graphics GPU graphics and compute acceleration for native and
web platforms
Sensor ProcessingVision and sensor processing,
inferencing acceleration
Embedded Camera API
Exploratory Group
Enabling applications and engines to portably leverage hardware acceleration
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Background
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Discussions on connecting ecosystems with interoperable runtimes and economies for portable assets and avatars
Fortnight, PUBG, Valheim
Virtual spaces where gamers create their own content
Roblox, Minecraft, Manticore
Digital twins eventually encompassing the world
GE, Siemens, Bentley, NVIDIA
1992Humans, as avatars, interacting with each other and software agents, in a
three-dimensional space that uses the metaphor of the real world
What is the Metaverse?
3D application interoperability for real-time immersive collaborative simulation and design
NVIDIA Omniverse
Spatially indexing and streaming the digitized world
OGC, Cesium
A spatial evolution of the Web
Augmenting Reality with persistent geo-locking, linking, occlusion and realistic scene illumination
PTC, Open AR Cloud, Niantic
VR environments where users can import their own authored assets
Microsoft Flight Simulator
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What is an Open Standard?INTEROPERABILITY standards define precise COMMUNICATION
Through a specification that enables multiple conformant implementations
E.g., Software <-> Hardware Communication through an Application Programming Interface (API)
True OPEN standards are not controlled by any single companyStandards Developing Organizations (SDOs) enable industry cooperation
Inclusive participation, well-defined governance and intellectual property frameworksStronger industry consensus and participation increases potential Adoption
Growing MarketsBy reducing consumer confusion and increasing
capabilities and usability
Reducing CostsBy sharing development between many
companies and driving volume
Speeding Time to MarketWith well-proven functionality, testing
and interoperability
Enabling InnovationCompanies compete on implementationquality, performance, power etc. etc.
Successful Open Standards Share Core Goals