Vertical industries are constantly striving to innovate, facing origin chain challenges, varied visitor requirements, regulations, and a lack of ability to do everything leadership can imagine in any complex business.
These industries perceive that their ownership of high-end assets for parts of their software stack limits business opportunities and is expensive to expand and maintain. To drive adoption, blazenly executing in combination with non-unusual infrastructure factors presents more opportunities for expansion for the business.
Our members in the automotive, motion picture, fintech, telecommunications, energy, and public health verticals have transformed their business processes and assets into software-defined assets. They are now building strategic frameworks that give them a competitive edge that only open source can provide. In 2021, verticals and new members continued innovating with newly formed communities in the agriculture industry and AAA-class 3D engines for entertainment and simulation.
While all of those vertical industries have unique open source communities and projects, they also share a common thread: They all realize that open collaboration presents opportunities to lower costs, shorten time to market, quality, and open up new spaces of competition. The ability to achieve those effects on a collective basis promotes innovation in the respective industries.
The Linux Foundation welcomed the Open 3-d Foundation to its circle of family networks in July 2021. The foundation’s first assignment was the Open 3-d engine known as O3-dE. Amazon Web Services donated it under an Apache 2. 0 and MIT licensing model. The task of the Open 3-d Engine is to create an open-source, complete, high-fidelity and real-time 3-d engine for the creation of games and simulations for all sectors.
Since its inception, it has raised $2. 7 million in commitments from 26 partners over two years and has earned signed commitments from several including Adobe, Intel, AWS, Niantic, Huawei, SideFX, HERE, and others.
The foundation is focused on industries that utilize 3D technologies. This includes video games, automotive, simulation, robotics, energy, real estate, training, film, special effects, machine learning, aerospace, and many other verticals.
Since its inception, it has grown to over 3600 stars, 1100 repository forks, 1,500 Discord users, and over 500 active members are online. It has grown to more than 130 code authors, 7,000 registry changes, 2,000,000 line of code changes, and a dynamic and active standalone network with an average of 500 messages and minutes depending on the day.
The Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) has continued to have an effect on open source technologies that strengthen the film and visual effects industries. To date, aswf has 32 members and hosts 14 projects and groups in execution.
Key achievements in 2021 include:
MaterialX was contributed as a task through Lucasfilm. MaterialX was born at Lucasfilm in 2012. It has the central format for the description of curtains in Industrial Light
The launch of the ASWF asset repository that provides communities open to production-level virtual assets for testing, demonstrations, and education.
The release of OpenColorIO v2. 0, which is the result of 3 years of progression and many improvements in functions and features. In addition, an increasing number of vendors are adopting their products and services, making OpenColorIO an industry standard.
ASWF has noted the collaboration and sustainability of the assignments and running teams it hosts, and the assignment experienced an increase in organizational diversity and contributions in 2021 compared to the year prior to its ASWF membership.
ASWF looks to 2022 as it focuses on new technologies such as virtual production.
Over the past decade, the Linux Foundation has worked with industry leaders such as Toyota and others to launch Automotive Grade Linux (AGL). AGL was created to create a common open source software platform to eliminate fragmentation in the automotive industry. AGL is the only organization with a project to take care of all the car software, adding infotainment, tool group, telematics, head-up display, complex motive force assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving.
The AGL community is reducing that fragmentation by combining the best of open source to create the AGL Unified Code Base (UCB), a single, shared, open source software platform for the entire industry. The UCB includes an operating system, middleware, and application framework and can serve as the de facto industry standard for infotainment, telematics, and instrument cluster applications. Sharing an open source platform allows for code reuse and a more efficient development process as developers and suppliers can build their solution once and deploy that same solution for multiple automakers.
Backed through 11 major car brands, adding the world’s 3 most sensitive brands by volume (Volkswagen, Toyota, Daimler), AGL is now deployed in production vehicles:
Amazon AWS joined AGL as a platinum member in January 2021 and they are AGL’s IoT and connected car initiatives.
In early 2021, AGL announced the creation of a new specialized organization for boxes and service meshing, led through Amazon AWS. The Container and Mesh Expert Group is creating an integrated container for AGL and creating a service orchestration and mesh framework that can be implemented as an AGL component.
IVI’s production readiness expert group, led through Toyota, made significant progress in 2021. This EG aims to bring AGL closer to a production-ready state. By early 2022, contributions of primary codes from Toyota in Flutter are expected for the built-in IVI, a new framework for the creation of user interfaces and programs for infotainment systems, which will allow brands to decrease the progression time and burden of implementing new state-of-the-art programs in the vehicle.
The Virtualization EG, led through Panasonic, worked on cutting-edge VirtIO technology, which consolidates vehicle cab systems like IVI, Instrument Cluster and Heads-Up-Display to run on a single processor. such as using Android for infotainment and AGL for the tool group on an unmarried virtualized processor. The consolidated cabin is a vision of the future, and is being developed today at AGL.
AGL also had two vital platform releases this year, Unified Code Base (UCB) 11. 0 Kooky Koi in February and 12. 0 Lucky Lamprey in July. These releases included several updates to graphics, audio, speech recognition, application and security frameworks, Internet applications, and Chromium Both versions are based on the Yocto 3. 1 Long-Term-Support board packages.
In May 2021, the Linux Foundation announced the launch of agStack Foundation, the open source virtual infrastructure allocation for the global agricultural ecosystem. 33% of all food produced is wasted, while 9% of the world’s population suffers from hunger or malnutrition. These social drivers are compounded through legacy generation systems that are too slow and inefficient and cannot serve as in the developing and increasingly complex agricultural supply chain. , reusable, open and specialized virtual infrastructure for knowledge and applications. AgStack will use open source and collaborative software to build the twenty-first century virtual infrastructure that will be a catalyst for innovation in new applications, efficiencies and scale.
AgStack consists of an open repository for creating and publishing templates, loose and simple for public knowledge, interoperable frameworks for the use of cross-projects and extensions and toolkits for specific topics, which will leverage existing technologies, such as agricultural criteria (AgGateway, UN-FAO, CAFA, USDA and NASA-AR); public knowledge (Landsat, Sentinel, NOAA and Soilgrids; models (UC-ANR IPM) and open source projects such as Hyperledger, Kubernetes, Open Horizon, Postgres, Django and more.
Founding members and participants come with leaders from the generation and agriculture sectors and from all sectors and regions. Members and partners come with Agralogics, Call for Code, Centricity Global, Digital Green, Farm Foundation, farmOS, HPE, IBM, Mixing Bowl
In June, the Linux Foundation announced the Open Voice Network, an open source agreement committed to advancing open criteria for the adoption of AI-enabled voice assistance systems. The founding members are Target, Schwarz Gruppe, Wegmans Food Markets, Microsoft, Veritone and Deutsche. Telekom.
Organizations are beginning to develop, design, and manage their own voice assistant systems independently of today’s general-purpose voice platforms. This transition takes place through the preference to manage all user delight, from voice sound, sonic logo and content, to the integration of voice assistance into multiple business processes and logo environments, from the call center to the branch and store. Perhaps most importantly, organizations know they want to protect the customer and proprietary knowledge that travels through voice. evolution through the offer of criteria and rules of use for voice assistant systems that are reliable, inclusive and open.
Voice is expected to be a number one virtual interface in the long run and will result in a hybrid ecosystem of general-purpose platforms and standalone voice assistants that require interoperability between chatbots from other platforms and voice assistants. industry-leading transformation into voice-specific coverage of user privacy and knowledge security.
Just as open criteria in the early days of the internet brought a uniform way to exchange data and connect anywhere, the Open Voice network will bring the same standardized ease of progression and use to voice assistant systems and chatbots, leading to massive expansion and price for businesses and consumers. Voice assistance is based on technologies such as automatic speech popularity (ASR), herbal language processing (NLP), complex debate control (ADM), and device learning (ML).
The Open Voice Network will first focus on the following areas:
These efforts are made imaginable through the dozens of corporations that help the Open3D Foundation, ASWF, AGL, AgStack, and Open Voice Network.
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