Speaker Presentations

3GPP and the VR Industry Forum presented

a Workshop on VR Ecosystem & Standards

Hosted by Ericsson

December 4-6 2017

Participants

Speakers and participants from Industry Leaders, including AKN INC., AMD, Apple, AT&T, AWS Elemental, b<>com, Comcast, Consumer Technology Association, Dolby Laboratories, DTS, EBU, Ericsson AB, ETSI, Fraunhofer, G’Audio Lab, Inc., Google, Harmonic, Hecas, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Innosupport GmbH, Inside Secure, Intel, InterDigital, LG Electronics, Littlstar, Lytro, Mission Rock Digital, Movielabs, MulticoreWare Inc., Nokia Technologies, Oculus, Orange, Qualcomm Incorporated, RK Entertainment Technology Consulting, SK TElecom, Sony, Samsung, Swisscom, Synaptics, Inc., Technicolor, TNO, Université de Sherbrooke, Verizon, VoiceAge Corporation, W3C, ZTE Corporation

Schedule and Links to Presentations
Day 1 – Monday 4 December
Frédéric Gabin & Rob Koenen	Welcome Address
VR Standardization Overview (Session chair: Frédéric Gabin)
Youngkwon Lim (Samsung)	MPEG
Paul Pedriana (Oculus)	Khronos
Wendy Seltzer (Head of strategy)	W3C
Rob Koenen (President)	VR-IF
Gilles Teniou (SA4 Vice chairman – Video SWG chairman)	3GPP
Ludovic Noblet (Chair, DVB CM-VR)	DVB
Thomas Stockhammer (BoD Director)	DASH-IF
Closing remarks Day 1
Demos included: Ericsson: VR360 Demo Suite Fraunhofer: Multiple demos, including OMAF with Tiled Streaming, Cloud-based rendering for TV sets, interactivity, and spatial audio G’Audio: Spatial Audio Rendering InterDigital: DASH-based 4K 360-degree Live Streaming Platform NGCodec: Live VR360 Encoding in the Cloud Qualcomm: MPEG-H Audio for VR SK Telecom / Hecas: MMT-based Ultra-low Latency 360-degree Streaming TNO: Social VR – Shared Virtual Reality Experiences
Day 2 – Tuesday 5 December
VR Device/hardware Ecosystem (Session chair: Rob Koenen)
Gordon Castle (Head of Strategy Development)	Ericsson
Martin Renschler (Senior Director Technology)	Qualcomm
Devon Copley (Head of Product, VR Platform)	Nokia
David Naegle (Fellow)	AMD
Jeff Solari (Senior Product Manager at Intel VR Center of Excellence)	Intel
Panel on Device/Hardware Ecosystem
VR Content production (Session chair: Gilles Teniou)
Nick Mitchell	Technicolor Experience Center
Larry Cutler	Baobab Studios
Jim Chabin (President)	VR Society
Paola Sunna	EBU
Glenn Forsythe	G’Audio Lab
Panel on VR Content production
Closing remarks Day 2
Day 3 – Wednesday 6 December
VR Service Providers (Session chair: Thomas Stockhammer)
Raheel Khalid (Chief Architect for VR/AR)	Verizon
Morgan Bouchet (Director Digital Content & Innovation – Head of VR)	Orange
Sunny Atwal (Lead VR Engineer)	Littlstar
Michael Chen	Comcast
Panel discussion with Speakers and Audience
Closing Panel (Panel chair: Frédéric Gabin)
Youngkwon Lim	Samsung
Kerri Haresign	CTA
Panel on Standardization Coordination
Closing Remarks