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Open and Royalty-Free
Further, COVESA aspires to be an open and royalty-free organization. The discussions and contributions made during this session are governed by the COVESA Intellectual Property policy. If you are unfamiliar with that policy, please review it in detail prior to making any contribution that reads upon a patent.

Weekly Notes

• 06.03.2025 Monthly

  • Agenda:
    
    • Content Provider Insights: HAYU – What are the main factors when entering the new platform (e.g., cars)?
    • Car Ready Mobile App Program: What did Google do to boost in-car apps?
    • Back Button: What does it do on GAS, and why is it a must-have feature?

• 06.02.2025 Bi-weekly

  • Meeting Notes
    • Decided to go to a monthly meeting, first Thursday of every month 4-5pm CET
    • Leads plan to take a step back an identify what is needed
    • Planning workshop to engage with providers
    • Some common items that have been identified with experience on Automotive AOSP are 
      • Not having a physical back button
      • No gesture control
      • Accessibility - not being able to increase font size

• 23.01.2025 Bi-weekly

  • Meeting Notes 
    • 3SS met with biggest steaming providers and each OEM independently.  Concluded standardization of certain pieces needs to be there:
      • cybersecurity, maintenance, content discovery, UX...
    • Some major providers want to be preinstalled
    • Group leads what to set workshop with content providers to discuss requirements for the in-car entertainment
      • Also need automaker buy-in
      • workshop could be held online/virtual, at AMM in May, or at AutoTech Detroit
      • The desire is to create a playbook - requirements - no commitment upfront
      • Gather and start to align requirements from big streaming providers
        • e.g. DRM, codes, SoCs
    • Could COVESA host a reverse Geocoding service?
      • To date, COVESA has not hosted such services.  It is possible to have such a project in COVESA where such a service is developed.  But an instance would not be hosted by COVESA.

• 14.11.2024 Bi-weekly

  • Agenda

    • In-Car Gaming
      • Present shortly the use case: in-car gaming using a smartphone as a controller
      • Brief from AirConsole:
        • What was special about the integration (Android app, access to car's interior lighting, and more)
        • What challenges were you faced?

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      • Brief from BMW:
        • What was done on the AAOS level to support it
        • What could be done in the future to allow more innovative use cases like AirConsole

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    • Geolocation
      • Finalize the proposal and share the next steps
  • Next steps
    • Specify API requirements for immersive gaming experience and share the use case with the VSS group
    • Understand the specification of COVESA Generic Connector for 3rd party app developers (gaming + media) to build immersive apps for cars
    • Follow up on the proposal for geolocation solution

• 31.10.2024 Bi-weekly

  • Agenda
    • Utilize the existing AM/FM Tuner for reverse geocoding - presented by Globant

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  • Next Steps
    • Create a list of basic technical requirements for all regions to be supported on AAOS requested by Content Providers (GPS antenna, connectivity, geolocation etc.)
    • Create an action plan for geocoding
  • Topics for the next session
    • tracking unique device identification with 3rd party apps (cross-apps)
    • in-car gaming use case & vehicle API integration 

• 05.09.2024 Bi-weekly

  • Agenda

    • COVESA Entertainment Workshop @ IBC

  • Next Steps
    • Dan to follow up with cloud vendors to join AMM
    • Paul to speak with event planner to fit geolocation session with cloud vendors
    • Tomek & Richard to sync on AMM agenda

  • Presentation

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  • COVESA Entertainment Workshop @ IBC

    • Want to Join Virtually?

      1. Be part of this unique event only following two steps:

         1. Please register in 3Ready+ from here.

         2. Join the workshop via Live-stream from here.

    • Date: 13.09.2024 (Friday)

    • Time:

      • CET: 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm (EU)

      • EDT: 8:00 am – 10:00 am (Detroit)

      • PDT: 5:00 am – 7:00 am (Bay area)

      • JST: 9:00 pm – 11:00 pm (Tokyo)

• 08.08.2024 Bi-weekly

  • Agenda

    • COVESA Entertainment Workshop @ IBC → link to register

    • Topic Survey → collect topics that will be discussed during IBC with Content Providers

    • Geolocation & Geofencing

    • Insights from yacht entertainment → Globant

  • Presentation

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  • Next Steps
    • COVESA at IBC
      • Collect topics to be discussed during IBC with Content Partners https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/23DHNJ7
    • Globant to follow-up with Google Cloud team on geolocation and come with proposal within 2-3 weeks
      • later, we need to internally evaluate the interest from OEMs and CPs

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