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 two-way: the metaverse will also reshape AI, offering a rich 3D training ground and workspace that enhances how intelligent systems learn, reason, and interact with the world.

Our scope is modality‑agnostic across AR, VR, mobile, and desktop. Without shared approaches, this future risks becoming fragmented, proprietary, and incompatible. We focus on interoperable interfaces and behaviors between systems, not device internals or UX mandates.

The AI x Metaverse Working Group at the Metaverse Standards Forum (MSF) is the global hub where AI innovators, metaverse architects, and standards leaders coordinate efforts to ensure this future is open, interoperable, and beneficial for all.

Join us to:

• Influence the approaches and priorities that will guide AI’s role in virtual worlds for decades to come.
• Collaborate with global experts across AI, immersive technologies, and interoperability.
• Coordinate with standards bodies to avoid duplication and wasted effort.
• Shape real-world use cases that connect AI capabilities with metaverse platforms, ensuring portability, trust, and innovation.

What We’re Working On

We focus exclusively on the intersection of AI and the metaverse, with a current focus in the following areas:

• Autonomous agents controlling avatars in virtual 3D environments for interaction and training.
• Frameworks for AI generation of multiplayer virtual 3D environments.
• Provenance of content and proof of personhood for participants in virtual environments.
• Autonomous payments between machines, humans, and software services.
• Interoperability standards for avatars, scenes, and audio.
• ESRB rating systems for AI generated experiences.
• Privacy and consent for data generated by the above areas, including biometrics.
• Malicious activity detection and content moderation

Our role is to inform and align — formal standardization proceeds through the appropriate standards development organizations. 

Who We’re Looking For

• AI researchers, engineers, and architects
• Developers of AI-driven agents, NPCs, simulation tools, and immersive AI experiences
• Standards professionals and interoperability advocates
• Organizations seeking to align their AI/metaverse work with an open ecosystem

If you want a say in how AI shapes the metaverse — and how the metaverse shapes AI — this is where your voice matters.

Working Group Chairs

Metaverse Standards Form working groups address the interoperability challenges and opportunities that are vital to the driving the open metaverse.  These working groups are led by our volunteer chairs who give their time to help coordinate and drive discussions with members of the group.