The Khronos Group will bring a full slate of presentations and activities to AWE 2023 in Santa Clara, CA, May 31^st through June 2^nd. Through both panels on the official AWE Conference Agenda and The Khronos Developer Forum, a series of BOFs, tutorials, and interactive workshops in a dedicated Khronos meeting space, Working Group members from OpenXR, 3D Formats, 3D Commerce, as well as members of the Metaverse Standards Forum will bring the business leaders and developers at AWE up to speed on the latest Khronos capabilities and extensions and the road ahead for open standards supporting the XR community.

Quick Links: Wednesday Rm 203 | Thursday Rm 203 | Friday Rm 203 | Khronos-related sessions at AWE

Khronos Developer Forum Program

Location: Santa Clara Convention Center, Room 203

Wednesday, May 31st

Metaverse Standards Forum Birds of a Feather

Moderator: Neil Trevett, Khronos Group President and Chair of the Metaverse Standards Forum
Speakers:

• Kavya Pearlman, Founder & CEO XRSI and Chair of Metaverse Standards Forum Domain Group for Privacy, Cybersecurity & Identity
• Guido Quaroni, Senior Director of Engineering at Adobe and Chair of Metaverse Standards Forum 3D Asset Interoperability Domain Group
• Alan Smithson, Co-Founder MetaVRse and Committee Member at Metaverse Standards Forum
• Matt White, CEO of Berkeley Synthetic and Chair of Metaverse Standards Forum Domain Group for Digital Asset Management

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Join the companies leading the charge towards an open metaverse for a discussion of the standards landscape and the work ahead. This will be an open discussion with members of the Metaverse Standards Forum and the Metaverse Community.

Intro to OpenXR: The Open Standard XR Application Interface

Time: 1:00 – 1:20p.m. | Download Calender

Speaker: Alfredo Muniz, Co-Founder & CTO of XEED

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OpenXR is an open standard for XR development that provides a unified interface for accessing devices and platforms. This overview will discuss the benefits of OpenXR, including reduced development time and increased compatibility across different devices and platforms. Learn how OpenXR can enhance your VR/AR development workflow and allow you to create immersive experiences that reach a wider audience.

OpenXR Tutorial: Building and Re-building Interoperable XR Applications

Time: 1:30 – 2:30p.m. | Download Calendar

Speakers:

• Alfredo Muniz, Co-Founder & CTO of XEED
• Denny Rönngren Principal Developer at Varjo

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In this foundational tutorial, members of the OpenXR working group will learn how to incorporate OpenXR into a new AR/VR development project. We’ll cover both using OpenXR to build new applications, and the process for porting from older SDKs to OpenXR to create applications that can be deployed cross-platform.

The Evolution of 3D on the Web: glTF Updates

Time: 4:30 – 5:30p.m. | Download Calendar

Moderator: Alexey Medvedev, AR Tech Lead at Meta
Speakers:

• Leonard Daly, 3D Systems Consultant at Khronos / Daly Realism
• Emmett Lalish, Senior Software Engineer at Google
• Dwight Rodgers, Director of Engineering at Adobe

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Join the Khronos Group for a briefing on the latest feature updates and extensions for glTF, and get a sneak peek into the future of 3D on the web. In this session, members of the 3D Formats Working Group will demo newly released and in-development extensions bringing interactivity, animation pointers, new PBR materials, and more to glTF. Learn how the JPEG of 3D is evolving to prepare for metaverse applications.

Thursday, June 1st

Advanced Tutorial: Extending OpenXR through Unity

Time: 10:30 – 11:30a.m. | Download Calendar

Speakers:

• Peter Kuhn, Senior Software Developer at Unity Technologies
• Cristina Scheibler, Senior Simulated Reality Application Developer at Dimenco

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Unity developers: are you ready to take the next step with OpenXR? In this session, we will demonstrate how to extend OpenXR through Unity. Learn how to target specific runtime applications and gain access to lower level APIs, unlocking new vistas of creative possibilities.

glTF In Action: How Companies are Using the JPEG of 3D

Time: 4:00 – 4:30p.m. | Download Calendar

Moderator: Daniel Frith, Vice President 3D at Avataar.ai
Panelists:

• Ashley Crowder, CEO & Co-Founder of Vntana
• Mike Festa, Chief Strategy Officer at SuperDNA 3D Lab
• Patrick Hadley, AR Shopping Product Manager at Snapchat
• Dwight Rodgers, Director of Engineering at Adobe
• Ashley Redmond, Chief Creative Officer at ALL3D

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Join the Khronos Group for a series of rapidfire glTF use cases, showing how the leading open standard for 3D on the web can be used in applications spanning e-commerce, industry, and marketing. Project developers will discuss use cases, challenges, tooling and results, and take your questions on their glTF workflows.

Interactive Discussion: Getting Started with glTF

Time: 4:30 – 5:00p.m. | Download Calendar

Moderator: Alexey Medvedev, Chair of the 3D Formats Working Group and AR Tech Lead at Meta
Panelists:

• Leonard Daly, 3D Systems Consultant at Khronos / Daly Realism
• Emmett Lalish, Senior Software Engineer at Google

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Discover whether and how glTF can improve your 3D content workflows in this interactive discussion. Come with your use case and pain points, and experts from the Khronos 3D Commerce and 3D Formats working groups will answer your questions about how glTF can fit into your application, and the tooling and processes you’ll need to know about to get started.

Friday, June 2nd

3D Commerce Evolution: Bringing Products to Life

Time: 11:00 – 12:30p.m. | Download Calendar

Moderator:Daniel Frith, Vice President 3D at Avataar, Inc.
Panelists:

• Leonard Daly, 3D Systems Consultant at Khronos / Daly Realism
• Mike Festa, Chief Strategy Officer, Super DNA 3Dlab
• Emmett Lalish, Senior Software Engineer at Google
• Patrick Hadley, AR Shopping Technology Product Manager at Snap
• Jatinder Kukreja, Director at SuperDNA 3D Lab

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The Khronos Group’s 3D Commerce Working Group brings together brands, content creators, and platforms to uncover and address common needs, all with the goal of making it easier for retailers to deploy 3D at scale. In this session, members of the 3D Commerce Working Group will demonstrate how to automate asset validation, create assets with built-in material variants, and standardize metadata for glTF assets. Then, they’ll offer a glimpse into the 3D Commerce Working Group’s development roadmap, including complex scene-building, smart asset loading, and skeletal and facial anchoring using the glTF file format. Finally, we’ll conclude with an open discussion about what the retail community needs next to advance with 3D.

glTF Asset Creation Challenges

Time: 2:30 – 3:30p.m. | Download Calendar

Moderator: Daniel Frith, Vice President 3D Platform at Avataar.ai
Panelists:

• Jatinder Kukreja, Director at SuperDNA 3D Lab
• Emmett Lalish, Senior Software Engineer at Google
• Alexey Medvedev, Chair of the 3D Formats Working Group and AR Tech Lead at Meta

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In this session, Khronos 3D Formats and 3D Commerce Working Group members will discuss some of the most commonly cited glTF asset creation challenges – and the tooling and processes the Working Groups have developed to navigate them. We’ll explore:

The panel of experts will also take attendee questions and advise on tricky technical issues. Attendee feedback will also be captured to help shape the future of glTF.

• Conversion from existing formats such as USD to glTF
• Creating assets in Blender with glTF as a target
• Creating high-quality KTX textures
• Asset verification and validation
• And more!

 

Khronos-related Sessions at AWE

Physically-Based Rendering: A Standardized Approach to Materials in the Metaverse

Time: May 31st at 2:55 - 3:50pm | Download Calendar
Location: Grand Ballroom D
Moderator: Leonard Daly, Daily Realism
Panelists:

• Sandra Voelker, Independent Consultant
• Ashleigh Miller, Senior 3D Program Manager at Amazon
• Emmett Lalish, Senior Software Engineer at Google

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Realistic-looking materials are essential to creating virtual worlds that are tactile and inviting. Creating believable materials for 3D objects is a complex problem with several approaches, many of which are either prohibitively difficult to master or unsuited for transmission over the web. Over the past decade, however, Physically Based Rendering (PBR) has emerged as an artist-friendly, intuitive, expressive, and robust technique for adding material attributes to 3D objects.

As part of its stewardship of the glTF standard, the file format known as the “JPEG of 3D,” The Khronos Group has created formal specification extensions for a variety of PBR materials. In this session, members of the 3D formats working group will present the latest waves of PBR extensions, explaining what they can achieve and best practices for using them to create 3D assets. They will also discuss how to test for model performance consistency across 3D viewers. (AWE Link)

Building Open Standards for the Metaverse: Challenges and Progress

Time: June 1st at 1:00 - 1:55pm | Download Calendar
Location: Grand Ballroom D
Moderator: Anshel Sag, Moor Insights & Strategy
Panelists:

• Neil Trevett, Presdient of the Khronos Group & Chair of the Metaverse Standards Forum
• Kavya Pearlman, CEO & Founder of XRSI

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At last year’s AWE, leaders of key standards development organizations (SDOs) and industry consortia including the Khronos Group, W3C, OpenAR Cloud, and ASWF discussed the need for more cross-organization collaboration to pave the way for an open, inclusive metaverse. It wasn’t just talk: these organizations have now come together along with hundreds of other SDOs, companies, and academic institutions to form the Metaverse Standards Forum, a venue for cooperation among metaverse stakeholders to foster the development of interoperability standards. The Forum has begun engaging in pragmatic, short-term projects like building a standards registar, coordinating use cases and requirements for input into SDOs, and creating interoperability prototypes, with more to come.

In this panel, leaders of Metaverse Standards Forum member organizations will discuss the interoperability challenges the group is prioritizing today, and how the forum is working to accelerate solutions. Attendees will gain insight into the nuances of topics including 3D asset interoperability; digital fashion; real/virtual world integration; and privacy, cybersecurity, and identity. The panel will explore current possibilities, challenges, and limitations within these domains, and discuss how attendees can contribute to the formation of an open metaverse. (AWE Link)

Beyond the Obvious: Unearthing Hidden Values in Digital Twins

Time: June 1st at 1:30 - 1:55pm | Download Calendar
Location: Grand Ballroom B
Speakers:

• Cynthia Maller, Head of 3D Creative Technology at Walmart
• Ashley Crowder, CEO & Co-Founder of VNTANA

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Digital twins are virtual models of real world objects, and can be used a variety of fairly well-known ways, from product design to sales and marketing. But the digital twin has even more talents at many points along the consumer journey. The development of immersive commerce has forever changed the definition of “attribution model,” and the digital twin is a powerhouse within it. 3D experts Cynthia Maller from Walmart and Ashley Crowder from VNTANA will highlight some of the new and positive ways in which digital twins can be given credit in the enterprise arena. (AWE Link)

Leveling Up 3D E-Commerce

Time: June 1st at 2:30 - 3:25pm | Download Calendar
Location: Grand Ballroom B
Moderator: Mike Festa, SuperDNA
Panelists:

• Daniel Frith, Vice President of 3D at Avataar
• Amra Tareen, CEO & Co-Founder of ALL3D
• Ashley Crowder, CEO & Co-Founder of VNTANA

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3D digital product representations are an incredibly powerful e-commerce sales tool. Ideally, retailers want to be able to use the same 3D assets in any context, from websites to native apps; our own e-commerce sites to third-party sellers; and interactive signs in brick-and-mortar stores to virtual store shelves in the metaverse. The open glTF standard, the “JPEG of 3D,” was built to meet the need for interoperability, and it is evolving to address the next generation of e-commerce use cases.

In this session, members of the asset creation and retail communities will discuss the gaps between the built-in capabilities and attributes of the most common 3D asset format, and current and emerging e-commerce requirements. We’ll examine use cases and discuss the challenges of current approaches. Finally, we’ll explore new extensions under development for glTF, including interactivity, behaviors, and the ability to assemble multiple assets into a single scene. Our panelists will share demonstrations of the kinds of experiences retailers will soon be able to offer cross-platform. You’ll leave inspired, with new ideas for your e-commerce platform and strategies to implement them using cost-efficient, interoperable standards-based assets. (AWE Link)