Open AR Cloud One Year Since the Launch

Editor's Notes

1. Open AR Cloud is becoming the place where people from around the world combine their efforts to solve the hardest challenges of spatial computing. We got some of the world’s leading experts from a wide range of fields participating in our working groups. But we need your help! Join us and help create a better future for all of humanity!
2. FROM SOTARC MERGED MASTER About This Report This document is a little piece of history. It’s the first production of  the newly founded global non-profit Open AR Cloud association (OARC). It has been written collaboratively by leading subject matter experts from around the globe who are participating in OARC’s many working groups. It is also the first report that provides an initial consensus overview of the state of many components that make up  the nascent AR Cloud industry that will be at the very center of the next big platform shift in computing, bringing the internet off screens and out into the real world. The report lays no claim to being comprehensive and cover everything, but is intended to provide an unprecedented overview of what is happening, and cover a wide range of topics regarding the birth of real world spatial computing. It will cover the core components that will enable this new digital reality.  It will detail the state of the industry, the companies involved, the wide range of technologies and solutions in development, and the myriad of challenges to be addressed, with special emphasis on the interoperability, scalability, usability, safety, privacy, ownership, security, compliance and legal issues ahead. It also attempts to analyze those challenges with regard to building an AR Cloud ecosystem (also referred to as the real world Spatial Web). It is also intended to educate and inspire individuals, technology executives and policy makers to carefully consider the challenges ahead and address them based on specific values and principles that will best benefit all of mankind. 
3. We haven't talked about such a feature so far, but I think this should be an important functionality for everyone who manages large amounts of location data. Vendor lock-in is an important factor in many occasions, and I think AR Cloud should be no different. There clearly will be different AR Cloud providers that offer different functionality and service levels. The owner of the location data (Corporation, …) should be able to always have access to up to date location data (probably by exporting from currently used provider) and use this data with any provider that supports this data format. It is clear to me, that the location data isn't owned by an AR Cloud provider