[x3d-public] IEEE Metaverse Congress Open Session Panel Thurs Dec 8

[John Carlson]

I suggest that before you ask for sizes, you tell us your hardware and
software specifications.

John

On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 9:05 PM Daniel Alexandre <bicomplex at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Hello Ronald, Vince and Joe,
> I would certainly be interested in participating in a metaverse event
> organized by IEEE peeps and also I have been having answered questions for
> a long time that seem quite simple and important to address,
> namely, what could be the bare minimum size in Gigabytes of a textfile,
> let's say using HTML and Javascript for a browser ready for WebGL apps,
> that was enough to surf and fly around a 3D model of Google maps that I
> like to call "50 Shades of Blank"? Let's say, what do you think could be
> the minimum size of a very rough Google Earth where the built environment
> was all replaced by rough boxes and 3D rectangles or very regular solids
> with a very flat polygonal base like the box used in VRML in files with
> extension .wrl that are till possible to be rendered and surfed in very old
> browsers that used to be the modern ones? And let's say that you wanted to
> skin the roads, parks, desert areas and land and all the facades of all
> houses, bridges and buildings with rectangular illustrations saved in the
> file format SVG or coded and animated using some simple script and markup?
> What do you think would be a quite bare minimum and reasonable size for
> such a model of the plant's built environment that could run on a very old
> version of Firefox in a single textfile with extension .wrl and please show
> all your calculations, estimations and reasoning at least in a very
> plaintext draft and sum up of ideas?
> Are there any other academics from www.uis.cam.ac.uk/partners other than
> Ronald around. I have no sound idea how busy this list may be, is it more
> than one thousand people reading this message and questioning? i tried the
> W3C VRML mailing-list but it seems is not the same moderator as this one
> and is quite inactive these days. Also tied to get the answer some other
> ways with the Naked Scientists, from Cambridge University in the UK and
> also with StackOverflow, Fiverr and Ask-Crew but not any conclusive answers
> as you see: https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=85637
> .
>
> *Daniel Alexandre*, with the help of ChatGPT, by openAi.
>
> On Mon, 5 Dec 2022 at 16:11, Vincent Marchetti <vmarchetti at kshell.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I am forwarding message from Ronald Haynes, a leader of the IIIF
>> (international Image Interoperability Forum) 3D Technical Study Group.
>>
>> The IEEE Metaverse Congress Session is free, open to all with advance
>> registration at
>> https://engagestandards.ieee.org/Metaverse-Congress-5.html, and takes
>> place 1 pm to 3 pm EST on Thu Dec 8 2022
>> The title of a panel session is "Challenges & Risks in Evolving 3D
>> Standards for the Metaverse" . The Web3D Consortium will be represented on
>> the panel.
>>
>> Vince Marchetti
>>
>>
>>
>> > Begin forwarded message:
>> >
>> > From: Ronald Haynes <rsh27 at cam.ac.uk>
>> > Subject: IIIF 3D update / IEEE Standards Metaverse Congress
>> collaboration / (this week)
>> > Date: December 5, 2022 at 10:46:41 AM EST
>> >
>> > Dear All,
>> >
>> > Pardon a rushed message, however there are some IIIF 3D-related events
>> this week which will be of interest:
>> >
>> >       • IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) - 2022
>> Online Meeting, December 6-8, 2022 -
>> https://iiif.io/event/2022/online-meeting
>> > (as you will know, the IIIF 3D update is on Wednesday 7th December,
>> 12:00 ET / 17:00 UTC)
>> >
>> >       • IEEE Metaverse Congress Session 5 -
>> https://engagestandards.ieee.org/Metaverse-Congress-5.html
>> > (this is part of the less-hyped, more research-oriented side of
>> metaverse development, and there will be a IIIF 3D panel - Thu 8th
>> December, 13:30 ET / 18:30 UTC)
>> > (regrettably, this overlaps some of the IIIF Online Meeting, however,
>> if you cannot attend both you can still register for both to see the
>> recordings)
>> > Please spread the word about these events, and hope to see you there
>> (or soon)!
>> >
>> > Take Care,
>> > Ronald
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Ronald Haynes, University Senior Computer Officer, University of
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>>
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