On Oct 9, 2009, at 10:15 AM, David Colleen wrote:
I agree. I believe that Mike's shopping list is already fully
supported by
X3D. That's may be why the two largest players in AR, Fraunhofer
(Instant
Reality) and Metaio (uses Bit Management's viewer), already use X3D
in their
AR viewers. I can understand why it is important to be able to
import 2D KML
data but as a central format it seems very limited and not suited to
the
task. AR platforms need 2D, 3D, video and ideally support for
diverse data
types from many other domains.
Fraunhofer has written some AR specific extensions to X3D. The Web 3D
Consortium is beginning to discuss the topic to decide if any new
nodes are
needed to support the AR community. I hope that you and others in
OGC will
participate. This is a good time to get involved and see that it is
done
properly. Attending Mike's AR Devcamp would be a good first step.
I had to resubscribe, so sorry for any dupes the original posters get
on this.
The thing that ARML brings to the table that X3D does not is that it
gracefully degrades for applications that understand KML. Companies
like mine can offer ARML to both AR apps and KML apps without issues
arising, which is nice.
--Joe
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