Upcoming W3C Workshop: WebVR Authoring: Opportunities and Challenges, 5-7 December

Hello,

W3C is pleased to call for participation in a workshop:
    W3C Workshop on WebVR Authoring: Opportunities and Challenges
    December 5-7 2017, Brussels, Belgium
    https://www.w3.org/2017/09/webvr-authoring-workshop/

Thanks to DigitYzer for hosting the workshop.

The primary goal of the workshop is to bring together WebVR stakeholders
to identify unexploited opportunities as well as technical gaps in WebVR
authoring.

Participants in the workshop will:
    * Share good practices and novel techniques in creating WebVR-based
content,
    * Discuss existing and foreseen challenges in using WebVR to deploy
content and services in specific usages,
    * Contribute to the unification of efforts for documenting and
advocating the development of WebVR content.

Attendance is free for all invited participants and is open to the
public, whether or not W3C members. Our aim is to get a diversity of
attendees from a variety of industries and communities, including:
    * 360° video and VR content producers and distributors
    * VR experience designers and artists
    * 3D, VR and WebVR authoring tools and platforms
    * authors of WebVR content
    * experts in challenges and opportunities of VR for people with
disabilities
    * browser vendors

Expected topics of discussion include:
    * Landscape of WebVR authoring tools
    * Creating and packaging 3D assets for WebVR
    * Managing assets for practical progressive enhancement
    * Progressive enhancement applied to the variety of user input in WebVR
    * Understanding and documenting WebVR constraints for 3D artists
    * Optimizing delivery of 360° videos to VR headsets on the Web
    * Practical approaches to building accessible WebVR experiences
    * Mapping the impact of ongoing evolutions of the Web Platform (Web
Assembly, WebGPU, streams) on WebVR authoring
    * Impact of performance factors on authoring WebVR content
    * Creating convergence on WebVR advocacy platforms

For more on the workshop, please see the workshop details and submission
instructions:
    https://www.w3.org/2017/09/webvr-authoring-workshop/

If you have any questions, please contact organizer Dominique
Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>.

W3C Members interested in sponsoring this workshop should contact Alan
Bird <abird@w3.org> - see also
https://www.w3.org/2017/09/webvr-authoring-workshop/sponsorship

This announcement follows section 8 of the Process Document:
       https://www.w3.org/2017/Process-20170301/#GAEvents

We look forward to seeing you there.

Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications

Received on Monday, 25 September 2017 06:18:28 UTC