A Survey of Extended Reality (XR) Standards

This paper surveys completed and ongoing work of Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs), fora and consortia dealing with technical aspects of extended Reality (XR).

Overview

Authors: Gillian Makamara, Martin Adolph

Publication Date: 2 January 2023

Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10003040

Keywords: Augmented reality (AR), extended reality (XR), metaverse, SDO, specification, standard, standardization, survey, virtual reality (VR)

Type: Peer-Reviewed Journals/White Papers

Summary

This paper surveys completed and ongoing work of Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs), fora and consortia dealing with technical aspects of extended Reality (XR). In line with the XR definition introduced by [1], specifications considered here address environments containing real or virtual components or a combination thereof, i.e. standards dealing with, inter alia, Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and metaverse. While aiming to be comprehensive, this survey can only provide a snapshot of the standards landscape taken at the time of submission of the manuscript.