OGC Announces new Geo for Metaverse Domain Working Group - GISuser.com

January 22, 2023 By GISuser

New OGC DWG volition assistance the Location communities collaborate and lend expertise into gathering and increasing the unfastened Metaverse.

Contact: info@ogc.org 

20 January 2023: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to denote the enactment of the OGC Geo For Metaverse Domain Working Group (DWG), which volition service arsenic a forum for the corporate geospatial expertise of the OGC assemblage to stitchery to assistance physique and turn the unfastened Metaverse. The radical is unfastened to OGC Members and non-members alike.

The Metaverse is possibly the eventual distributed integer duplicate of the world. It has the imaginable to correspond everything successful the satellite alongside imagined spaces. The challenges to Standards Development Organizations (SDOs), technologists, artists, and nine are huge, but the payoff is believed to beryllium arsenic tremendous. The Metaverse is not a azygous happening but, similar the internet, is simply a postulation of platforms and technologies: a satellite of objects that tin beryllium navigated and interacted with.

Everything OGC does tin beryllium applied to the Metaverse. Our assemblage tin lend expertise successful 3D, Modeling & Simulation, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Twins, streaming, Augmented and Virtual Realities, routing, mapping, and much – each astatine scale.

The OGC Geo For Metaverse DWG volition enactment connected pieces of the Metaverse that pertain to geospatial applications and Standards by identifying standardization activities and best  practices based connected FAIR information principles (making information Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable). Given that the Metaverse volition beryllium an evolutionary development, the moving radical volition place some near- and semipermanent goals that volition assistance guarantee interoperability, FAIRness, and openness. Much of the Metaverse is already happening, truthful collaboration with different partners volition beryllium cardinal to its occurrence and volition beryllium a grounding rule of this OGC DWG. Specifically, the DWG volition beryllium the superior constituent of interaction with the Metaverse Standards Forum, of which OGC is simply a founding and Principal member.

3D geospatially anchored information is powering a gyration crossed a scope of industries. This aforesaid information – presently relied upon for operation of the existent satellite – is present driving the instauration of virtual/digital worlds that volition signifier parts of the Metaverse.

For the Metaverse to succeed, however, each integer and carnal satellite accusation volition person to enactment successful performance astatine scale. We person a corporate work to guarantee that the shared aboriginal is FAIR and Open. OGC has ever focused connected interoperability and unfastened Standards – some of which are cardinal to ensuring an unfastened Metaverse. Working together, we tin person a affirmative interaction connected this future.

For a primer connected the Metaverse and the relation that OGC and the Geospatial Industry tin play, spot the blog station ‘The Metaverse is Geospatial’ on ogc.org.

Join OGC for a speech astir however our standards and innovations lend to the metaverse – from real-time 3D, to integer twins, to Augmented Reality, GeoPose, and more. OGC’s 125th Member Meeting (February 20-24, 2023, virtual and in-person astatine ESA’s ESRIN successful Frascati, Italy) volition see the inaugural gathering of the OGC Geo For Metaverse DWG. Learn much and registry at meet.ogc.org.

OGC members and non-members alike who are actively moving wrong the Metaverse and related communities are invited to enactment successful the Geo For Metaverse Domain Working Group. OGC Members can join the OGC Geo For Metaverse Domain Working Group utilizing the pursuing Portal Page. OGC DWG’s are unfastened to the public. Non-OGC Members can join the OGC Geo For Metaverse DWG by signing up to the mailing database here.

Learn much astir the Mission, Goals, and Planned Activities of the DWG connected the OGC Geo For Metaverse DWG homepage.

About OGC
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is simply a corporate problem-solving assemblage of much than 550 experts representing industry, government, probe and academia, collaborating to marque geospatial (location) accusation and services FAIR – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.
The planetary OGC Community engages successful a premix of activities related to location-based technologies: processing consensus-based unfastened standards and best-practices; collaborating connected occupation solving successful agile innovation initiatives; participating successful subordinate meetings, events, and workshops; and more.
OGC’s unsocial standards improvement process moves astatine the gait of innovation, with changeless input from exertion forecasting, applicable prototyping, real-world testing, and assemblage engagement.
OGC bridges disparate sectors, domains, and exertion trends, and encourages the cross-pollination of ideas betwixt antithetic communities of signifier to amended decision-making astatine each levels. OGC is committed to creating an inclusive and sustainable future.
Visit ogc.org for much info connected our work.