Working Groups

The purpose of the Safety Standards Working Group is to educate alliance members on UL’s safety standard on AR, VR, MR equipment (UL8400) and also to help members actively participate in the drafting of the next revision/edition of UL8400.

Image Quality (IQ) is a crucial factor in assessing the performance of Augmented Reality (AR) devices. To ensure accurate evaluation and identify reasons for poor image quality results, using correct IQ metrics, specialized methodologies, and tools are needed. Given the complexity of applying these, the IQM3 Committee is established to standardize the image quality evaluation process and encourage industry collaboration and best practices sharing. Led by OptoFidelity, renowned for its expertise in defining metrics and methodologies for precise, reproducible image quality testing, the committee invites all AR ecosystem stakeholders to contribute

One of the key enabling technologies for augmented reality devices of all kinds is connectivity and communications. With a range of use cases and applications from simple audio only smart glasses, to see through AR glasses providing simple information through a display, to more complex AR glasses and more immersive AR headsets, all these devices have requirements, constraints and challenges regarding connectivity and communications, and each have their own unique requirements.

This working group will explore this space to clarify the needs, requirements, constraints and challenges in this domain, following which, and based on member interest, dig deeper into one or more of these applications.

Accessibility (AX) is key to ensuring that devices and products are usable by as many people as possible, regardless of physical or cognitive differences. Although there are extensive AX guidelines for digital content on traditional displays (such as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines), see-through AR (STAR) displays pose unique challenges for visual accessibility, and, to our knowledge, there are no published industry best practices for AR devices.  The AR Alliance has an opportunity to guide the AR industry towards accessible design decisions for the ~20% of people with AR-relevant disabilities.

The Rx for XR Working Group recognizes the diverse refractive correction needs of the population and strives to address corrective vision solutions for XR experiences.  We aim to deliver industry standards and best practices for refractive error correction, optimizing comfortable and effective vision for XR users.

Laser displays have the potential of providing improved AR display performance on many axes including efficiency, brightness, increased field of view in a small form factor as well as eventually tackling vergence accommodation conflict and front side light leakage.  This group will collaborate to facilitate the maturation of technical solutions into viable commercial opportunities for laser displays ranging from laser illuminated (F)LCoS, Laser Beam Scanning (LBS), Holographic, and others laser-based concepts at the system level.  Together the group will promote the advantages of laser display and work to reduce the barriers towards creating successful solutions and businesses.