The metaverse can be understood as a persistent, interconnected digital ecosystem where people interact with content and each other through three dimensional experiences. Unlike traditional digital media, which is dominated by flat screens, 2D interfaces, and pixel...
Domain Group
AI x Metaverse
Shaping the Future Where Intelligent Systems and Immersive Worlds Meet Artificial Intelligence is transforming the metaverse — powering lifelike avatars, adaptive environments, and autonomous agents that can create, trade, and collaborate, but the transformation is...
Ethical Principles for the Metaverse
This working group has been folded into the Ecosystem Working GroupThis group will start by recognising this variety of perspectives, and rather than adopting a prescriptive or normative position, will focus on a descriptive approach: the main aim will be to review...
Accessibility In The Metaverse
Who We Are We are a working group of the Metaverse Standards Forum dedicated to securing accessibility and inclusion for everyone in the metaverse. Our goal is to generate insights, identify risks, and recommend strategies and best practices to ensure that immersive...
Volumetric Media Interoperability
The Volumetric Media Interoperability EG seeks to build understanding around volumetric media and draft a charter for a “Volumetric Media Interoperability” Domain Working Group. Opportunities for more immersive services are increasing as volume capturing and rendering...
Education
This working group has been folded into the Ecosystem Working GroupEducation and training in the Metaverse are becoming essential for all organizations, whether for internal skill development or external educational offerings. By compiling information from diverse...
Industrial Metaverse Interoperability
This working group has been folded into the Spatial Computing Working GroupThe metaverse for industrial use cases is expected to be deployed prior to and to grow rapidly by comparison with the consumer market over the next few years. The consumer market is mostly...
Real/Virtual World Integration
This working group has been folded into the Spatial Computing Working GroupDefining constructs to describe and integrate the physical world and created (digital) representations. The group is examining current technologies and standards around semantic...
Privacy, Cybersecurity & Identity
This working group has been folded into the Ecosystem Working GroupApproved with very strong interest from the Forum members, the urgent priority of this group is to deliver recommendations for responsible innovation that mitigates human and societal harm from...
Network Requirements and Capabilities
This working group has been folded into the Spatial Computing Working GroupTo collect use cases and related requirements for network capabilities to support metaverse applications, e.g. latency, jitter, throughput, time synchronization. Includes documenting applicable...