Neil Trevett President, Khronos [email protected] @neilt3d

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


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


Open Standards and Open Source

Open Standard = Shared Specification

Implementation

Implementation Implementation

Implementation

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

Contributor

Contributor

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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


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


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


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


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

Neil Trevett President, Khronos [email protected] @neilt3d

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