The present document presents and classifies industrial use cases for AR applications and services. It forms the basis for the requirements document to be drafted ETSI GS ARF 004: Augmented Reality Framework (ARF) Interoperability Requirements for AR components, systems and services.
- Description languages and vocabularies to characterize devices and users;
- Control information to fine tune the sensed information and the actuator command for the control of virtual/real worlds, i.e., user's actuation preference information, user's sensor preference information, actuator capability description, and sensor capability description. The adaptation engine is not within the scope of this document. This document specifies syntax and semantics of the tools required to provide interoperability in controlling devices (actuators and sensors) in real as well as virtual worlds: Control Information Description Language (CIDL) as an XML schema-based language which enables one to describe a basic structure of control information;
- Device Capability Description Vocabulary (DCDV), an XML representation for describing capabilities of actuators such as lamps, fans, vibrators, motion chairs, scent generators, etc.;
- Sensor Capability Description Vocabulary (SCDV), interfaces for describing capabilities of sensors such as a light sensor, a temperature sensor, a velocity sensor, a global position sensor, an intelligent camera sensor, etc.;
- Sensory Effect Preference Vocabulary (SEPV), interfaces for describing preferences of individual user on specific sensorial effects such as light, wind, scent, vibration, etc.; and
- Sensor Adaptation Preference Vocabulary (SAPV), interfaces for describing preferences on a sensor of an individual user on each type of sensed information.
The technologies specified in this document are description languages and vocabularies which describe sensorial effects. The adaptation engine is not within the scope of this document (or the ISO/IEC 23005 series). This document specifies syntax and semantics of the tools describing sensory information to enrich audio-visual contents: Sensory Effect Description Language (SEDL) as an XML schema-based language which enables one to describe a basic structure of sensory information; Sensory Effect Vocabulary (SEV), an XML representation for describing sensorial effects such as light, wind, fog, vibration, etc. that trigger human senses.
This document specifies syntax and semantics of the data formats for interaction devices by providing a standardized format for interfacing actuators and sensors by defining XML schema-based language named Interaction Information Description Language (IIDL). IIDL provides a basic structure with common information for communication with various actuators and sensors in consistency. Device Command Vocabulary (DCV) is defined to provide a standardized format for commanding individual actuator, and Sensed Information Vocabulary (SIV) is defined to provide a standardized format for holding information from individual sensors either to get environmental information from real world or to influence virtual world objects using the acquired information on the basis of IIDL.
This document provides definitions of data types and tools, which are used in other parts of the ISO/IEC 23005 series, but are not specific to a single part. This document specifies syntax and semantics of the data types and tools common to the tools defined in the other parts of the ISO/IEC 23005 series, such as basic data types which are used as basic building blocks in more than one of the tools in the ISO/IEC 23005 series, colour-related basic types which are used in light and colour‑related tools to help in specifying colour-related characteristics of the devices or commands, and time stamp types which can be used in device commands, and sensed information to specify timing related information. Classification schemes, which provide semantics of words or terms and normative way of referencing them, are also defined in Annex A, if they are used in more than one part of the ISO/IEC 23005 series. The tools defined in this document are not intended to be used alone, but to be used as a part or as a supporting tool of other tools defined in other parts of the ISO/IEC 23005 series, except for the profile and level definitions. This document also contains standard profiles and levels to be used in specific application domains. The profile and level definitions include collection of tools from ISO/IEC 23005-2 and ISO/IEC 23005-5 with necessary constraints.
The present document provides reference test material and test results for improved usability of technologies in TS 26.118: Virtual Reality (VR) profiles for streaming applications.
The specification TS 26.118 includes several VR media profiles for video and a single media profile for audio with different configuration options. The specification focuses primarily on interoperability requirements for VR360 applications, but does not address performance characterization of the solutions. In order for content providers and the rest of the ecosystem to be able to select and configure the technologies defined in TS 26.118 and to generate content for streaming applications, collecting such information would be most valuable.
The present document defines interoperable formats for Virtual Reality for streaming services. Specifically, the present document defines operation points, media profiles and presentation profiles for Virtual Reality. The present document builds on the findings and conclusions in TR 26.918.
