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Press Releases and Reports
Accessibility in the Metaverse Working Group Q2 Report
In Q2 2025, the Accessibility in the Metaverse Working Group held 6 general meetings, expanding to 60 members, and began updating its long-term vision.
Metaverse Standards Forum 2024 Annual Report
The Metaverse Standards Forum marked a significant milestone in April 2024 by celebrating its first anniversary as an independent, non-profit, industry consortium. As we reflect on our journey, we want to share the Forum's accomplishments and milestones throughout...
Metaverse Standards Forum Incorporates
Less than a year after its initial launch, the Metaverse Standards Forum™announces that it is now incorporated as an independent non-profit industry consortium. The Forum’s mission continues unchanged—to enable, foster and promote cooperation and coordination over metaverse-related interoperability between standards organizations, companies, and universities.
Blog Posts
Metaverse Standards Forum and RP1 Create the Open Metaverse Browser Initiative – Join Us in Building the Next Open Ecosystem
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...
Good Intentions, Real Barriers: Investigating Accessibility in XR Workflows
This project, conducted in collaboration with XR Access and the Metaverse Standards Forum (MSF), investigates why accessibility in eXtended Reality (XR) often breaks down between intention and execution—and what tools or systems could help bridge that gap. As XR technologies evolve, ensuring accessibility requires not just awareness, but practical, embedded support that fits real-world workflows.
Driving Real-World Impact: Metaverse Standards Forum Launches Forum Labs Initiative for Pre- and Post-Standardization Collaboration
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...
In the News
MSF a Catalyst for glTF Gaussian Splatting Extension
In January 2025, the Metaverse Standards Forum initiated a series of public Town Halls to explore whether Gaussian splatting was ready for standardization. Stakeholders identified strong overlap across use cases and interoperability challenges that could be meaningfully addressed through open standards—specifically by enabling splat storage in glTF assets.
Open Standards, Shared Vision, Limitless Possibility
On the Brand Called You podcast, Stephen Ibaraki and Neil Trevett deep dive into Neil’s extraordinary journey through 3D graphics, GPU evolution, open standards, and the creation of the Metaverse Standards Forum—uniting global stakeholders to build an open,...
UnitedXR: The State of the Metaverse Standards Forum, Standards for AI and what about Apple? with Neil Trevett
In this conversation, we dive deep into three key topics: the current state of the Metaverse Standards Forum, Apple’s role in XR—and the tension specifically between the USD and glTF file formats, and how standard organizations are handling the explosion of AI assets and new tech like Gaussian splatting.
Taking Yourself Into the Metaverse
Moving forward there will be a number of key “standardization” elements for avatars, such as body type, allowing avatar vendors to maintain their own IP, whilst enabling avatar interoperability with a myriad of Metaverse experiences. Organizations working on this include MSF, IEEE, and VRM.
OMA3 expands effort to make standards for the Open Spatial Internet
In 2023, OMA3 announced the start of work on the Inter World Portaling System (IWPS), the 3D hyperlink for the spatial internet, and released the initial specification draft for public comment in 2024 during a public forum on the specification with the Metaverse Standards Forum.
Is Gaussian Splatting Ready for Standardization?
Geo Week News reports on Metaverse Standards Forum’s Gaussian Splats Town Hall held in January.
Metaverse Org Declares the Technology Is Accelerating in Spite of Rise of AI
A new report from the Metaverse Standards Forum (MSF) declares the technology initiative is alive and well, despite skyrocketing attention paid to artificial intelligence.
Academy Immersive to Debut at Infinity Festival with Distinguished Panel
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New York, NY - The recently formed Academy of Immersive Arts and Sciences, in partnership with Metaverse Standards Forum, is bringing a special edition of the MetaTr@versal series on interoperability to Infinity Festival Hollywood, November 7,...
The Impact on Broadband Networks of Deploying Metaverse Applications at Scale
To reap benefits, countries must plan to ensure global access and reap socioeconomic benefits of advanced all-fiber broadband infrastructure aligned with WBBA guidelines. (Registration Required)
Geospatial in the age of the metaverse
The metaverse is motivating the novel integration and deployment of diverse technologies for collaborative spatial computing, such as interactive 3D graphics, augmented and virtual reality, geospatial systems, digital twins, physical simulation, multi-user gaming, and more — at new levels of scale and immersiveness.
The Path to a Thriving Metaverse Interoperability & Open Standards
Christine Perry joins the XROM podcast to discuss interoperability & open standards for the metaverse.
Geospatial Key to Realize Full Potential of the Metaverse
Belayneh underlined the need for such collaborative initiatives as the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) or the Metaverse Standards Forum that focus on establishing a lingua franca for digital twins or the Metaverse to facilitate seamless communication and trust in 3D content across platforms and devices.