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h1. Specifications

All of our specifications are *[[Open specification license|open for use]]* by other applications and developers. Our main specifications are completely decoupled from each other and can be used in isolation from the others so that the purposes they can be useful for go far beyond our own narrow business use cases.

* *[[IMML]]* - Lightweight XML interactive spatial format
* *[[Metaforik]]* - Define a conceptual idea (a Metaforik "Item") with metadata that refers to specific digital assets and services
* *[[Continuum]]* - Streaming interactive media format capable of capturing and repurposing all kinds of collaborative activities as knowledge files
* *[[LIXA]]* - A lightweight XML bone-based animation format

Ideas for new specifications:

* *[[VastMark]]* - Bookmark real and virtual places and things and share them so that people can see your annotations and point of view. Suitable for augmented and virtual world purposes.

h1. Interoperability and Standards

We support a range of existing standards in our quest to build the most open platform available. As new standards for interoperability emerge we aim to support them.

Existing open standards we use and support today include HTTP, RESTful web services, XML, Collada, OpenGL. We also provide an open API that enables for massive extensibility of the platform to support both open and proprietary systems, services, data and more. Plugins can be written in any .Net language such as C#, VB, IronPython and more. Scripting can currently be done in LUA with an option to extend this to support Python and other scripting languages.