ITU-T Study Group 16 Meeting Report and Recent Development in Standardization of Immersive Live Experience Technologies
Jiro Nagao · NTT technical review · 2023
The recent meeting of the International Telecommunication Union -Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) Study Group (SG) 16 was held in October 2022, with the new management members.An SG vice-chairman and two Working Party chairmen were appointed from Japan.Regarding immersive live experience, four draft documents including one new work item were discussed, and the definition of the descriptor of haptic information was added to one of the documents during the meeting.In the meeting, a Correspondence Group on Metaverse was held and sent a liaison statement to the Telecommunication Standardization Advisory Group (TSAG) asking for TSAG's decision on whether to start a Focus Group on Metaverse.With the newly appointed director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, Mr. Seizo Onoe, a positive cycle of technology development and dissemination is expected by incorporating industry into the standardization activities of ITU-T.