
February 25, 2015
The ARML 2.0 standard has been approved – now official!
Back in 2009 when we started with our proprietary ARML 1.0 file format, we had the vision that someday, an open data format for AR would emerge that was accepted and used industry wide. I’m pleased and proud to announce that this day has finally arrived!! ARML 2.0, the AR data format that the ARML 2.0 Standards Working Group (SWG) have been working on for the past 3 years has been adopted by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) as an accepted and implemented industry standard. The process and methodology we’ve executed over the past few years has been both exciting and challenging. When we proposed and started the ARML 2.0 SWG back in 2011, we were a group of five institutions that believed in the same vision of an augmented reality data standard. After the SWG was initiated and all the necessary requirements to form a group were met, the SWG got towork. The members met regularly via telephone conferences, and face to face 3-4 times a year in locations across the globe, including Boulder, Colorado, Brussels, Belgium and Taichung, Taiwan. Just one short year later, the group had grown to more than 50 members by the time we were able to release a first draft of the specification to the public in November 2012. The first version of the specification received some very good responses, and a couple of change requests. The integration of these changes kept us busy for another couple of months. By that time, ARML 2.0 received the status of a “Proposed OGC Standard”, meaning that the OGC proposes ARML to the community, but is waiting for implementations to make a decision on adopting the standard. After the incorporation of the user feedback, the first implementations of the standard were released tothe world. We are currently aware of 4 live applications that are supporting ARML 2.0. The the three main AR Browser vendors, Layar, Metaio and Wikitude, teamed up to make the browsers’ interoperable utilizing ARML 2.0 as the common interchange format between them .
Free ARML 2.0 Webinar: on March 25th 2015!
Want to learn more about the ARML 2.0? Join the free webinar ‘Unleash Huge Market Opportunities in Augmented Realty with the New OGC Open Standard’ with our CTO Martin Lechner. Click here to register and check the schedule in your local time.
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