As AI-enabled AR glasses and VR headsets go mainstream, there is an urgent need to evolve today's web infrastructure to deliver spatial services to these next-generation devices. The race is on to establish the open standards required to make this transition possible...
Author: Mrunmai Abhyankar, The University of Texas at Austin Editor Dylan Fox, Director of Operations, XR Access Executive Summary This project, conducted in collaboration with XR Access and the Metaverse Standards Forum (MSF), investigates why accessibility in...
p-NET Welcomed as the First Forum Principal Lab The Metaverse Standards Forum is proud to announce the launch of its Forum Labs Initiative — a major new program designed to accelerate open cooperation and interoperability through grounded, high-impact Collaborative...
Authors: Johannes Behr, Threedy GmbH & Nicolas Polys, PHD, Virginia Tech Introduction The charter and vision for the 3D Web Interoperability Working Group at the Metaverse Standards Forum is to leverage and extend current web standards to enable the metaverse, as...
Authors: Johannes Behr, Threedy GmbH & Nicolas Polys, PHD, Virginia Tech 3D Web Interoperability Working Group Vision The Metaverse Standards Forum's mission is to foster and guide the development of interoperability standards that will drive the newly emerging...
On Tuesday, January 22, the Metaverse Standards Forum (MSF) hosted a virtual town hall to explore a pressing question: Are Gaussian Splats (GS) ready for standardization? The event drew hundreds of participants and sparked a lively debate. The conversation has since...
The Metaverse Standards Forum is proud to introduce the Metaverse Educational Register, a dedicated initiative designed to organize and guide the rapidly growing field of Metaverse-based education and training. As virtual and augmented reality become integral to...
We are excited to announce the publication of "Interoperability is a Fundamental Requirement for the Open Metaverse," in the proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Emerging Metaverse (ISEMV) held in conjunction with this year’s IEEE Symposium on Mixed...
Opportunities for more immersive services are increasing as volume capturing and rendering devices become more readily available. Metaverse in its own right is driving the demand for volumetric media as 2D experiences need to move into a more immersive domain. As a...
A recently formed Metaverse Standards Forum Working Group is connecting key industry stakeholders across the avatar ecosystem to promote increased cross-platform interoperability through cooperatively developing an Avatar and Character Translation Framework. The Need...