Web3D 2023

Use the following topic areas as a sample reference rather than a limitation. We welcome all topics related to Web/mobile 3D content creation, immersive realities, 3D compression, publishing technology, tools, and related studies.

Virtual, augmented, mixed, cross and extended realities. Novel APIs, toolkits, and frameworks for 3D web.

Content creation and modeling, 3D content scanning, reconstruction, compression, printing, visualization.

Marius Preda received the degree in engineering from the University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest Bucharest, Romania, in 1998, the Ph.D. degree in mathematics and computer science from University Paris V, Paris, France, in 2002, and the eMBA degree from the IMT Business School, Paris, in 2015.

He is currently Associate Professor with the Institut MINES-Télécom, Paris, and also the Convenor of the MPEG 3D Graphics and Haptics Working Group of ISO. He contributed to several international standards with technologies in the fields of 3-D graphics coding, virtual worlds, and augmented reality.

François Daoust is Web application and TV specialist at World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). His responsibilities at W3C include actions such as confront theory and practice in international settings and follow the evolution of the Open Web platform into a full-fledged development platform, in particular its integration on all sorts of connected objects (e.g. Web3D, mobile, TV). He is involved in Web architecture, Mobile Web, Software Development, and Standardization activities.

W3D collaborates closely with the Web3D community in the definition and promotion of standards related to the inclusion of 3D content in the Web W3C standards define an Open Web Platform for application development that has the unprecedented potential to enable developers to build rich interactive experiences, powered by vast data stores, that are available on any device. Although the boundaries of the platform continue to evolve, industry leaders speak nearly in unison about how HTML5 will be the cornerstone for this platform. But the full strength of the platform relies on many more technologies that W3C and its partners are creating, including CSS, SVG, WOFF, the Semantic Web stack, XML, and a variety of APIs.

W3C develops these technical specifications and guidelines through a process designed to maximize consensusabout the content of a technical report, to ensure high technical and editorial quality, and to earn endorsement by W3C and the broader community.

Mel Slater is a Distinguished Investigator at the University of Barcelona in the Institute of Neurosciences, and co-Director of the Event Lab (Experimental Virtual Environments for Neuroscience and Technology). He was previously Professor of Virtual Environments at University College London in the Department of Computer Science. He held a European Research Council Advanced Grant TRAVERSE 2009-2015 and has now a second Advanced Grant MoTIVE 2018-2023. He is a Research Award Winner of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2021, and was elected to the IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Academy in 2022. He is Field Editor of Frontiers in Virtual Reality, and Chief Editor of the Human Behaviour in Virtual Reality section. His publications can be seen on publicationslist.org/melslater.

He currently coordinates the European Metaverse Research Network.