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Press Releases and Reports
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
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...
Linked Spatial Experiences: The Web of Worlds
Authors: Johannes Behr, Threedy GmbH & Nicolas Polys, PHD, Virginia Tech Introduction The charter and vision for the 3D Web Interoperability Working Group at the Metaverse Standards Forum is to leverage and extend current web standards to enable the metaverse, as...
Building The World Wide Webiverse
Authors: Johannes Behr, Threedy GmbH & Nicolas Polys, PHD, Virginia Tech 3D Web Interoperability Working Group Vision The Metaverse Standards Forum's mission is to foster and guide the development of interoperability standards that will drive the newly emerging...
In the News
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.
The metaverse puts its best foot forward
Work together. The report also emphasizes interoperability, praising the work of the Metaverse Standards Forum, which was launched in 2022 to coordinate metaverse technology development and features many of the same member organizations as the XRA.
AI to Make the Metaverse Relevant Again, CES 2024
A wave of disruptive technologies is coming that will give the metaverse a much-needed boost – AI, GPU processing and compute, XR, advanced networking, WiFi 7, 5G/6G and Web 3.0.
Metaverse EU’s Interview with Neil Trevett
Metaverse EU spoke with Neil Trevett about his experience at NVIDIA, why he set up the Metaverse Standards Forum, and the importance of standards in developing the metaverse.
Deep Dive: AOUSD Core Specification Approach and Roadmap
The Alliance for Open USD (AOUSD) released a two-year roadmap that charts the organization’s path toward becoming a global standard for interoperability of disparate data types, describing 3D scenes and environments across industries.
Unpacking the AI Policy and Governance Landscape with Legal Expert Liz Rothman
In this episode of Building the Open Metaverse Podcast, Metaverse Standards Forum Board Member, Elizabeth Rothman from XRSI, covers responsible AI development, transparency needs, generative content IP, removing training bias, and global coordination.
What’s Stopping Fortnite and Call of Duty From Using the Same Items? It’s Not Just NFTs
“There is always a dynamic tension between proprietary technologies, often controlled by larger companies, and open interoperability standards.” Trevett said, “[but] the fact that the Forum has gathered over 2,500 member organizations is testament to the intense industry interest in interoperability’s ability to build commercial opportunities for companies of all sizes.”
What’s the point of a metaverse standards register?
Immersive Wire’s Tom Ffiske speaks to Metaverse Standards Register Working Group Chair, Christine Perey, on why the Metaverse Standards Forum unveiled its register.