A new VR and AR standard would set the bar for rewriting reality
The IEEE Standards Association is working on a series of standards for virtual and augmented reality. It announced the news ahead of this year’s Augmented World Expo, listing eight initial areas to work on. A working group will establish definitions and categories of VR and AR devices, as well as standards for video quality, user interfaces, and file formats.
The VRAR Working Group is just getting started. But the IEEE, an association of technical professionals, has a long history of establishing industry standards. In this case, it’s joining a few other groups that have sought to standardize VR and AR. Gaming company Razer and VR company Sensics established the open-source OSVR platform in 2015, promising broad compatibility between…
