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

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
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.
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.
Enterprise potential of the metaverse takes shape at CES 2023
While Trevett cautioned business leaders to avoid getting caught in the metaverse hype, he said they must prepare now for it. “It will just gradually creep into our lives,” he said. “People really need to be attuned to what opportunities are being created.”
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.
Why Establishing Standards Will Be Key to the Metaverse’s Future with Neil Trevett
In this episode of the Step into the Metaverse Podcast, Dr Mark van Rijmenam chats with Neil Trevett, the Vice President of Developer Ecosystems at NVIDIA and chair of the Metaverse Standards Forum. Neil will talk about a constellation of standards necessary to have a truly interconnected metaverse or an interoperable metaverse.
Neil Trevett – VP Developer Ecosystems at NVIDIA & Chair of Metaverse Standards Forum
Into the Metaverse Podcast – Yonatan Raz-Fridman interviews Neil Trevett, Chair of the Metaverse Standards Forum. They cover in detail why standards are vital for the metaverse to emerge and what could happen in their absence.
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.
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.
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)…
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.
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.”