Within IDEA, most of our progress is made within our working groups. The association currently has three active working groups. Here is a quick report on their activities.
The Media Format Working Group continues to meet bi-weekly, and has just completed its 2022 Program of Work — a roadmap describing planned enhancements for the Immersive Technology Media Format (ITMF). This detailed report, recently approved by the IDEA board, spells out features to be added in version 2 and subsequent version 3 of the ITMF suite of specifications. In addition, extensions to the libitmf reference software are also underway. These will include adding parsing and creation of an ITMF Scene Graph to the current capability of libitmf to encode and decode the ITMF container. A summary of this 2022 roadmap can be found on the IDEA Website.
The Network Architecture Working Group has been very active these last few months preparing the second in our series of ITMF file format demonstrations. This demo will be presented by webcast on Wednesday, May 4, and will show several noteworthy extensions to ITMF streaming of 3D objects in scene. Details on the demo, and how to sign up for the webcast, are included in this newsletter.
The Promotions Working Group is preparing for the return of live industry conference events, following the two-year hiatus. We look forward to meeting more of you at in-person events later this year, answering your questions and learning about your specific needs and challenges in the fast-evolving space of immersive media.
Posted March 29, 2022
