WebVMT Status Update

1. Progress Made

    i. Presented WebVMT proposed contribution to OGC Testbed-17 Moving Features From Digital Motion Imagery [1] kick-off meeting on 7 April 2021 and proposed traffic camera use case.
    ii. Added Web Platform Tests for unbounded cues: web-platform-tests/wpt#28394 [2]
    iii. Completed merge [3] to add unbounded cue [4] for TextTrackCue in WHATWG HTML specification on 20 April 2021. Thanks to Philip Jagenstedt, Gary Katsevman and Chris Needham for their support.
    iv. Raised issue w3c/webvtt#496 [5] for unbounded cue [4] use cases and proposed support in WebVTT.
    v. Discussed unbounded cue support for WebVTT in W3C Timed Text WG meeting [6] on 29 April 2021.

2. Next Steps

    i. Continue alignment discussions with OGC GeoPose SWG [7].
    ii. Continue participation in OGC Testbed-17 Moving Features From Digital Motion Imagery [2].
    iii. Publish Android app on Google Play store.
    iv. Continue community outreach and identify more activities to promote progress towards the standardisation track.

[1] https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=95726#MovingFeatures <https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=95726#MovingFeatures>
[2] https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/pull/28394 <https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/pull/28394>
[3] https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/5953 <https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/5953>
[4] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/media.html#unbounded-text-track-cue <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/media.html#unbounded-text-track-cue>
[5] https://github.com/w3c/webvtt/issues/496 <https://github.com/w3c/webvtt/issues/496>
[6] https://www.w3.org/2021/04/29-tt-minutes.html#t08 <https://www.w3.org/2021/04/29-tt-minutes.html#t08>
[7] https://www.ogc.org/projects/groups/geoposeswg <https://www.ogc.org/projects/groups/geoposeswg>