Find all the latest press releases, blog posts and recent coverage of the Metaverse Standards Forum In The News. A list of presentations and videos is also available.
Press Releases
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.
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
Metaverse Standards Forum Establishes Pipeline of Exploratory and Working Groups
The intense industry interest in the metaverse flows from the opportunities that will be created by combining multiple disruptive technologies such as GPU-powered real-time photorealistic graphics and physical simulation, Augmented and Virtual Reality, decentralized...
Setting Course for an Open Metaverse Part 1: Updates from the First 60 Days of the Metaverse Standards Forum
In June 2022, following an initiative inspired by Neil Trevett, Patrick Cozzi and Marc Petit, 37 founding member companies, standards development organizations (SDOs), and industry associations joined together to launch the Metaverse Standards Forum -- a venue to...
Setting Course for an Open Metaverse Part 2: SIGGRAPH Building the Open Metaverse Course
Real-time 3D graphics are a core foundation for the metaverse. As a result, the SIGGRAPH community naturally has a deep connection to the metaverse’s development. At SIGGRAPH 2022 many of the companies involved in the metaverse gathered for a "Building the Open...
In the News
Tech Snippets Today’s Interview with Neil Trevett
Tech Snippets Today’s, Joseph Raczynski, interviews the Metaverse Standards Forum President, Neil Trevett, on the Forum and it’s progress in this vlog.
Uniting the Global XR Industry with the Metaverse Standards Forum
XR Today’s Demond Cureton hosts Neil Trevett, President of Metaverse Standards Forum, to discuss the Forum’s role in shaping industry-wide development of the Metaverse, the Forum’s recent incorporation, its strengths and challenges and expectations at AWE 2023.
NVIDIA’s Neil Trevett on His Vision of the Future of Metaverse
Kirill Tokarev, of 80 Level, interviews Neil Trevett, Chair of the Metaverse Standards Forum, on how he views the metaverse, interoperability and file formats, and detailed problems the concept of the metaverse faces.
Fast Company Gives Metaverse Standards Forum World Changing Idea Awards Honorable Mention
The Experimental category of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards honors concepts, prototypes, and just-launched ideas that may not yet have clear impact but have the potential to change how we think about an issue.
Metaverse Standards Forum Official Incorporates as nonprofit – Politico
Metaverse Standards Forum Official Incorporates as nonprofit
Metaverse Standards Forum Update on Working Groups & Incorporating as a Non-Profit Industry Consortium
Voices of VR article on Metaverse Standards Forum incorporation and updates
Metaverse Standards Forum becomes official non-profit industry consortium
Venture Beat’s article on Metaverse Standards Forum’s incorporation
The Slow Road to Metaverse Standards — and How AI Fits In
The New Stack interviews Neil Trevett on the Metaverse Standards Forum progress and how AI will impact the metaverse.
Towards an Open and Interoperable Metaverse
In this episode, Rene Schulte talks with Neil Trevett, about his views on the metaverse and explore some of the challenges that the metaverse is facing for broader adoption in general and in particular with interoperability.
XRSI’s Ongoing Collaboration with Metaverse Standards Forum Reinforces Focus on Privacy, Cybersecurity & Identity
XR Safety Initiative(XRSI), Standards Developing Organization promoting privacy, safety, security, and ethics in immersive and emerging technologies, is pleased to provide an update on its ongoing partnership with The Metaverse Standards Forum.
Synthetic Reality: AI and the Metaverse
Matt White’s detailed blog on how AI will play the single most important role in building, operating, and governing the Open Metaverse.
ACM ByteCase – Episode 33 – Neil Trevett
In this episode of ACM ByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts Neil Trevett, as they discuss Neil’s career and his perspective on the Metaverse and how it can leverage other disruptive technologies.