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Metaverse Standards Forum Launches Volumetric Media Interoperability Domain Working Group
Opportunities for more immersive services are increasing as volume capturing and rendering devices become more readily available. Metaverse in its own right is driving the demand for volumetric media as 2D experiences need to move into a more immersive domain. As a...
Metaverse Standards Forum Announces the Formation of Interoperable Characters/Avatars Working Group
A recently formed Metaverse Standards Forum Working Group is connecting key industry stakeholders across the avatar ecosystem to promote increased cross-platform interoperability through cooperatively developing an Avatar and Character Translation Framework. The Need...
Metaverse Standards Forum Continues to Expand Domain Activities
The Metaverse Standards Forum is a unique cooperative organization encouraging interoperability for an open and inclusive metaverse through gathering industry requirements and expertise—and promoting the success and visibility of standardization efforts through the...
In the News
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.
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.