Viisis

Viisis is a fictional open standard proposed to coordinate five-dimensional digital media and interaction across devices and platforms. The term was introduced by a hypothetical consortium of researchers and industry partners in 2022, with the name reflecting the framework’s five foundational components: content, context, interaction, instrumentation, and integrity. The standard aims to enable interoperability among media producers, delivery networks, and user interfaces by providing a common data model, protocol bindings, and governance mechanisms.

The Viisis architecture is described as a layered stack with five layers: data model and semantics, media encoding, interaction and presentation, device and context adaptation, and governance and trust. The data model defines five primitive structures for composing media items, relationships, user metrics, access rights, and provenance. Formats are designed to be extensible and license-friendly, prioritizing forward compatibility and privacy by design. Viisis emphasizes reproducibility and auditability through cited provenance records and verifiable interactions.

Development and history notes describe Viisis as the product of a project group consisting of university labs, industry partners, and standards bodies. A draft specification was released in 2023, followed by public pilots in education and digital arts contexts. The project is imagined as an open-source initiative with a permissive license and community governance, intended to illustrate how cross-platform interoperability might be approached.

Reception within this hypothetical scenario highlights strong support for interoperable, privacy-conscious multi-modal experiences, while acknowledging challenges in achieving broad adoption across competing platforms. As presented here, Viisis remains a conceptual proposal used for illustrative purposes.