The Alliance for Open Media (AOM), the members group behind the AV1 video codec, recently issued a call for proposals for static polygonal mesh coding – a branch of encoding techniques that it is hoped will help foster the development of improved compression for volumetric video formats. The deadline for declaring an interest in making a submission was supposed to have passed in mid-May, but the arrival of a second call for proposals in the Faultline inbox this week suggests AOM has not yet received sufficient submissions, either in volume or quality. Proponents can still submit results up until early September 2023, before the best proposals are selected in late November. The establishment of the first version of the Volumetric…