A Proposed Step-By-Step Guide to an AR Standard

Many discussions have emerged recently from the Augmented Reality industry about creating an Augmented Reality Standard. In the rather new and thus still fairly unstructured AR industry, various institutions and groups got together and analyzed the AR landscape from the ground (the analytical approach to a standard), while others started from the other end and already created proposals for an AR standard (the hands-on approach to a standard, based on the lessons learnt from their own applications). This paper proposes a step-by-step guide to an AR standard by structuring the gathered information and combine both approaches to finally be able to define the scope of an AR standard, which eventually leads the way to define an AR standard. The step-by-step guide will be used as the starting point for the ARML 2.0 Standards Working Group1 within the OGC2, which will be officially established in September 2011.