Introduction to OMA3’s Inter World Portaling System Specification

The OMA3 Inter-World Portaling System (IWPS) draft standard presents a novel framework for digital interoperability, acting as the 3D equivalent to a web hyperlink, seamlessly linking users to various virtual worlds. This peer-to-peer protocol is designed to function across both Web2 and Web3 virtual environments, establishing a flexible standard for the open metaverse. The IWPS standard enables users to move between applications, even on different devices, effectively serving as a generic application launcher. This presentation aims to introduce the IWPS draft standard and gather feedback for this open and secure architecture for a more connected metaverse.

Review the draft specification

There will be two sessions: EMEA session starting at 4pm CET (7am PT) and APAC session starting at 11am JST on 28 November (6pm PT 27 November).

Speakers

EMEA Speaker: Roderick Kennedy, Co-Chair OMA3 Portaling and Mapping Working Group

Speaker Bio: Roderick Kennedy earned a D.Phil from the University of Oxford in Plasma Physics, before founding Simul, a company focused on physically-based and generative rendering, winner of the British Computer Society’s Research and Development Prize for the trueSKY weather renderer. Roderick founded Teleport XR to pursue the goal of an open standard for spatial computing, and since 2023 has contributed to the Portaling and Mapping working group of OMA3.

APAC Speaker: Alfred Tom, Executive Director OMA3, Co-Chair MSF Digital Asset Management Working Group

Alfred Tom is CEO of Wivity, a Web3 governance company, Executive Director of OMA3, a Web3 metaverse consortium, and President of Lumian Foundation, a cybersecurity supply chain consortium. Mr. Tom has over 30 years of experience creating and managing industry consortia and has led Web3 collaborations since 2019. Mr. Tom has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford, and an MBA from UCLA.

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