A Standards Forum was held at the 2002 Stereoscopic Displays and Applications conference. A summary of this forum appears in the 2002 conference proceedings (and online).

A number of initiatives of the Stereoscopic Standards Committee are currently underway - see the 2002 Standards Forum Summary for a summary of those initiatives.

A proposed standard for Field-Sequential 3D Video is currently under preparation - see below. A standards mailing list has been setup to allow the discussion of standards topics - see the 2002 conference proceedings standards forum summary for more information.

Background:
2002 Standards Forum
2001 Standards Forum
2000 Standards Forum
1998 Standards Forum

Existing Standards:
"Connector and Signal Standards for Stereoscopic Display Hardware" (VESA),
Stereoscopic JPEG (JPS) standard (VREX),
VESA BIOS 3 with stereoscopic extensions.

Standards Currently Under Development:
Field-sequential 3D Video (labelling standard and which field is which, etc):
      * Background Paper (Jan 2001) "fs3d_background_paper.pdf" - 14KB
      * Draft Version 0.4 of the proposed standard (Jan 2001) "FS3Dstd04.pdf" - 205KB
      * Draft Version 0.2 of the proposed standard (29 Dec 1999) "FS3Dstd.pdf" - 225KB
Terminology/Lexicon,

Areas Needing Standards:
Display Formats,
standard polarity of 3D Glasses (linear polarized, cirular polarized and anaglyph),
Hardware Interfaces (e.g. 3.5mm stereo jack for LC glasses, etc),
Software Interfaces,
Digital 3D Video.

How can you help - how can you benefit?
Submit a summary of a standard we do not yet have summarised on this site,
Submit a proposal for new standards in stereoscopic imaging,
Collect your thoughts and
Plan to attend the 2004 Stereoscopic Displays and Applications Conference.