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Press Releases

Leading Standards Organizations and Companies Unite to Drive Open Metaverse Interoperability

Leading Standards Organizations and Companies Unite to Drive Open Metaverse Interoperability

The Metaverse Standards Forum brings together leading standards organizations and companies for industry-wide cooperation on interoperability standards needed to build the open metaverse. The Forum will explore where the lack of interoperability is holding back metaverse deployment and how the work of Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs) defining and evolving needed standards may be coordinated and accelerated.

Blog Posts

In the News

CES 2023: The Road to the Metaverse

CES 2023: The Road to the Metaverse

This Residential Systems article takes a look at the Metaverse panel at CES 2023 diving into the potential possibilities and pitfalls of the current state of the Metaverse.

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It’s Not Too Early To Become Metaverse-Ready

It’s Not Too Early To Become Metaverse-Ready

There’s still lots of work to do here, but groups like Khronos Group, the Realtime Conference, and Metaverse Standards Forum are bringing together tech companies, hardware makers, and retailers to work on open standards that will begin to govern metaverse content.

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Watch this virtual space  (subscription req’d)

Watch this virtual space (subscription req’d)

In a recent article for The Economist, Tim Cross describes that after desktop computing, the consumer internet and the smartphone boom, the consumer-computing industry is past due its Next Big Thing. The coming year will see big tech firms doubling down on two related, much-hyped possibilities. One is VR and AR headsets; the other is the metaverse, which holds that an internet which is still largely flat—based on two-dimensional text, images and video—is ripe for replacement with one that is three-dimensional and immersive, experienced as a sort of globe-spanning video game.

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Three Predictions for 2023 in Augmented and Virtual Reality

Three Predictions for 2023 in Augmented and Virtual Reality

IDTechEx gives three predictions for the metaverse in 2023. 2022 marked the formation of the Metaverse Standards Forum with its members list reading like a who’s-who of the XR industry, as well as major internet, telecoms, and professional service firms. 2023 will almost certainly see the first implementation of conclusions from the group in shaping this nascent space.

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The Metaverse Standards Forum: What you need to know

The Metaverse Standards Forum: What you need to know

The metaverse is envisioned by many as the next generation of the internet, a vast, unfettered 3D network of virtual and augmented spaces where people can engage in all the activities they do online — work, play, learn, explore — but in ways that feel more like real life. For this to happen, many layers of technology standards and protocols will need to be established and adopted by metaverse platforms. Enter the Metaverse Standards Forum (MSF)…

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What Is the Purpose of the Metaverse Standards Forum?

What Is the Purpose of the Metaverse Standards Forum?

One of the major goals of the MSF is to create an open and inclusive metaverse. At present, we understand the metaverse in a very company-specific way. For instance, we know that Nvidia, one of the founding members of the MSF, has a metaverse for engineers called Omniverse, and the gaming platform Roblox is a metaverse in itself. However, the metaverse isn’t meant to be individual virtual spaces “owned” by a particular company where one cannot communicate with another. It is eventually supposed to be everyone’s, in the sense that all virtual worlds are interconnected.

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How will digital identity work in the Metaverse?

How will digital identity work in the Metaverse?

The Metaverse Standards Forum has its work cut out for it, says Matt White, one of its representatives. “The concept of the Metaverse is that it can’t be centralised, can’t be under one platform,” he says. “It is a paradigm shift around ownership and identity that needs to be addressed.”

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