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Press Releases

Metaverse Standards Forum Incorporates

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

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 Announces First Elected Board of Directors

Metaverse Standards Forum Announces First Elected Board of Directors

The Metaverse Standards Forum is pleased to announce it has completed its first Board of Director elections following incorporation as a non-profit consortium earlier in 2023. Principal Members of the Forum were eligible to stand for election and vote in the balloting...

Metaverse Standards Forum Launches Metaverse Standards Register

Metaverse Standards Forum Launches Metaverse Standards Register

An open database of organizations, publications, and projects related to Metaverse interoperability,  all organizations working on Metaverse-related standardization are invited to apply to be included. Adhering to the goal of creating a venue where leading standards...

In the News

Standards for the Metaverse Webinar

Standards for the Metaverse Webinar

The IEC’s webinar, “Standards for the Metaverse” was conducted on June 26th. This workshop shared information about relevant ISO and IEC standards and projects that can be applied to the creation and the advancement of the Metaverse. Opportunities to participate in current work will be highlighted.

The video is now available: 

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Where The Metaverse Makes A Difference

Where The Metaverse Makes A Difference

Burkhard Boeckem, CTO of Hexagon AB & Forbes Councils Member discusses the potential of the metaverse to business that will be most transformative,m and why his company joined the Metaverse Standards Forum—to ensure that open standards are an incubator of innovation at this exciting time for the technology.

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