Everything we do is open source, and we will be using existing standards as much as possible. (wave itself is open-source too, and servers from different people are seamlessly federated together).

I really admire what Layar and Wikitude has achieved, but to me it seems a dead-end format untill anyone can make a browser, and anyone can host data without any specific company being involved.
Company’s like Layar should, in the end, be content-providers rather then end-to-end solutions for their content.

That was very well stated.

I sometimes hold it as a tragedy that the developers most excited about AR are publishing data in company specific formats and the AR apps that gather information are storing it in closed mediums.

It’s difficult to cultivate and gather resources from the community for open projects when the more commercial players are so loud. I was grateful for the opportunity to have the FLARManager and Mobile ARKit sessions presented on a equal footing with Layar and Metaio, their commercial counterparts.

Having representatives of the commercial entities at ARDevCamp gave me a chance to talk shop with them about the art of AR and I have more affinity for them as a result.

I still believe Linked Open Data and the Graph based standards of the Semantic Web like RDF and OWL eliminate the need for such things as a LayaR or Wikitude formats for data or an AR Modeling language, and speaking with some of these companies directly has me feeling heard.

For me, ARDevCamp was a strong signal event.

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I think this group really understands the possibilities of AR. Let’s make it take off in 2010!