The deadline for submissions to the Declarative 3D Workshop at WWW2012 conference has been extended. The new deadline is 29th February, 2012, 23:59 CET.
More details here.
Declarative 3D for the Web Architecture Community Group
The mission of the Declarative 3D for the Web Architecture Community Group is to determine the requirements, options, and use cases for an integration of interactive 3D graphics capabilities into the W3C technology stack. This group is aimed to extract core features out of the requirements as foundation to propose feasible technical solutions. These should cover the majority of 3D use cases for the Web - but not necessarily all of them. There are upcoming open (e.g., WebGL) and proprietary (e.g., Adobe) proposals for imperative graphics APIs in the Web context but we are missing an easy way to add interactive high-level declarative 3D objects to the HTML-DOM to allow anyone to easily create, share, and experience interactive 3D graphics - with possibly wide ranging effects similar to those caused by the broad availability of video on the Web. The goal of this CG is to evaluate the necessary requirements for a successful standardization of a declarative approach to interactive 3D graphics as part of HTML documents.
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CfP: 1st International Workshop on Declarative 3D for the Web Architecture (Dec3D2012)
We are pleased to announce the first International Workshop on Declarative 3D for the Web Architecture in conjunction with WWW2012, 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2012) in Lyon, France.
You are invited to submit your papers to the workshop. The workshop aims to encourage researchers and practitioners from both the Web and 3D graphics communities to meet and talk about an integration of interactive 3D graphics capabilities into the Web technology stack in a declarative way.
Workshop webpage: http://events.declarative3d.org/Dec3D2012/
Topics
Topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Declarative 3D Use-Cases and Requirements: Discussion of the use cases, where embedding 3D data in HTML using declarative approach provides significant benefit; deduction of the requirements for the D3D specification.
- Declarative 3D and DOM: Discussion of integration of 3D with existing and future W3C standards, specifically: integration of high-level scene concepts; integration with client and server side rendering services, 3D REST; integration with existing security aspects for content delivery and visualization; content portability and platform independence.
- Declarative 3D in current web browsers: Exploring how the incorporation of declarative 3D graphics can be done in currently popular web browsers (e.g., by using WebGL in WebKit or Gecko); what are the possible difficulties?
- Semantics of 3D objects in DOM: Discussion of how descriptive 3D can be combined with semantics. This includes topics such as querying and manipulation of graphical objects, mash-up from several sources, integration of RDF technology, creation of useful APIs based on web services etc
- Declarative 3D User Interface Issues: Novel interfaces and interaction methods for online 3D + HTML content; mobile 3D Web interfaces, interaction techniques; accessibility and usability of 3D Web content.
Submissions
We seek three kinds of submissions:
- Full technical papers – should not exceed eight pages in length in ACM format;
- Short technical papers and position papers – up to four pages in ACM format;
- Demo descriptions – two-page description of the application in ACM format, ideally accompanied with a link to a demo;
Submissions must be formatted using the ACM SIG Proceedings Templates. Please note that the author list does not need to be anonymized, as we do not follow a double-blind review process.
Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three independent reviewers. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and included in the workshop proceedings (published online at CEUR-WS).
Please submit papers via EasyChair.
Important Dates
- Submission deadline:
22nd29th February, 2012, 23:59 CET - Notification of acceptance: 6th March, 2012
- Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: 22nd March, 2012
- Workshop date: 17th April, 2012
For any further informations, please visit the workshop webpage or contact organizers viadec3d2012@easychair.org
Declarative 3D breakout session Wednesday November 2
2:30-3:30 in Grand Salon Room B is the melee-selected meeting time for our Declarative 3D breakout session today. Kristian and Johannes will present cool demos and go over all the great work on group goals, use cases, requirements and coordination with other W3C groups. Plus cool demos! We hope to see you there.
Love the effort…
Declarative 3D meeting room Tuesday 1 October 2011
Room announcement: the Declarative 3D group will meet in Marriott Room 1435 on Tuesday 1 October 2011 from 0830-1200. Participation is open.
We are also likely to have a 90-minute breakout session Wednesday afternoon with meeting room to be announced soon.
TPAC 2011: Call For Participation – Declarative3D Community Group Meeting
Call For Participation -Declarative3D Community Group Meeting The Declarative 3D community group cordially invites other W3C experts to participate in these efforts. Time: Tuesday 1 November 2011, 9 AM to 1 PM As Part of the TPAC 2011 conference http://www.w3.org/2011/11/TPAC/ Declarative 3D Graphics on the Web Proposers: Kristian Sons, Johannes Behr, Don Brutzman Summary: the Declarative 3D Community Group invites other W3C groups to consider common requirements and use cases of shared interest. Type of session: short talks followed by open discussion Location: TBA, a conference room at TPAC in Marriott Hotel Motivation. The Web evolved from a text based system to the current rich and interactive medium that supports images, 2D graphics, audio and video. These types of new media have made the Web experience richer, more attractive to users, etc, than ever before, and opened up possibilities for new types of applications and usage. The major media type that is still missing is 3D: synthetic, possibly photorealistic images in 3D with animation, as smoothly integrated in the everyday Web experience as images or video. Just as the appearance of images or video could open new application possibilities, access the 3D on a Web site would make it possible to include realistic models of 3D objects (from models of buildings to representation of the human body or the sceneries for computer games). As of today, such applications require separate applications or the installation of browser plugins; however the goal would be to achieve the same smooth inclusion of 3D content in a Web page like we experience today with images or SVG based 2D graphics. The Declarative 3D Community Group is building requirements for integrating 3D capabilities with other W3C technologies by defining common use cases. This group will present common use cases that define how 3D might intersect and interact with HTML5, DOM events, CSS, SVG, GeoLocation, Augmented Reality (AR), Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) and other key working groups. Certain complex data types and computations are also of mutual interest. Agenda Overview and Motivation (Sons & Behr) Declarative 3D use cases and requirements (Brutzman) Demonstrations (Sons, Behr, Ressler) Technical coordination strategies with other W3C working groups
- Base Types: SVG, CSS 3D Transform and X3D all define basic types (e.g. vector, 4×4 matrix) which are not harmonized yet
- CSS Based Material System: The current coloring system of HTML is controlled by a fixed set of CSS parameter. This should be extend to a open and dynamic material system supporting different types of shading. The FX/Adobe Proposal might be a first step into this direction.
- 3D Events: how to extend HTML5 DOM events to carry and exchange 3D scene data
We invite participation by people working in these other groups so that common ground can be defined, existing work can best be harmonized, and new requirements can be clearly identified
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YACFUC: Yet Another Call For Use Cases!!
Hello Ladies and Gentlemen….given that few people are able to participate in the weekly telecon we decided that it would be a good idea to solicit more information from the vast group listening in on the mailing list!! 
This is simply a friendly reminder and plea asking for more Use Cases.
Take a look at the public wiki page for the Use Cases and Requirements located at:
http://www.w3.org/community/declarative3d/wiki/Use_Cases_and_Requirements
(see I’m making it easy…all you have to do is click!)
We really want to get input from industry, people who actually have a need for 3D on the Web…what would you like to do with it?
What type of applications would you like to see this technology address?
Do you have a non-toy application that requires industrial strength graphics to accomplish your mission?
Do you have a toy application that you would just like to see implemented for fun?
No use case is too big or too small…the idea is to generate technical requirements based on the use cases.
We don’t want to simply generate a bunch of cool requirement for academicians (no disrespect to them) that have little value in the real world..we want to make this stuff useful for real world applications.
Don’t limit yourself to current technology..think outside (wait for it…) the box
So you’re itching to contribute?
Great…the simplest thing you can do is just email your use case to the public-declarative3d@w3.org list! That’s it your on your way to being the next great contributor of Declarative 3D!
Please try to contain your excitement 
Fame and fortune are sure to follow.
Want to make things more formal? Just join the group…it’s free, easy and open to all!
To join go to:
http://www.w3.org/community/declarative3d/
and click on the “request an account” link in the little upper right “login” box.
We look forward to your cases!
thanks….Sandy Ressler
Image from the Declarative 3D “Kickoff” meeting in Paris
This picture shows the group of people which were at the declarative 3D “kickoff” meeting last week in paris during the Web3d 2011 Conference. This includes members from DFKI, Fraunhofer IGD and the Web3D Consortium, but also new faces and contributor like Neil Trevett from Khronos. This meeting was extremely inspiring and we look all forward to deliver a first progress at Siggraph and TPAC 2011.
Welcome to the Declarative 3D Community Group
The Community Group “Declarative 3D for the Web Architecture” is an initiative of DFKI, Fraunhofer IGD and the Web3D Consortium. Originally intended as an Incubator Group, we want to use this great new opportunity of W3C Community Groups and use it to build a community that is interested in describing highly interactive 3D scenes within HTML and the DOM.
We developed a very explicit charter and we would like to stick to this charter. This doesn’t say the charter is perfect and final, but we intend to focus on a lean and mean set of well defined topics. We will transform this charter to a Wiki entry i.e. to the group’s philosophy soon.
We invite you to join our initiative and we are looking forward for inputs and contributions from a wide range of different parties!