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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...

Happy Birthday, Metaverse Standards Forum!

Happy Birthday, Metaverse Standards Forum!

With over 2,500 members and multiple active Working and Exploratory Domain Groups focused on driving pragmatic interoperability advances, the mission of the Metaverse Standards Forum to promote cooperation and enable metaverse-related interoperability continues....

In the News

Metaverse Standards Forum Launches to Solve Interoperability

Metaverse Standards Forum Launches to Solve Interoperability

Interoperability — or lack thereof — is a key issue in the nascent metaverse industry. The Khronos Group aims to solve this with a new open standards discussion forum called The Metaverse Standards Forum, which launches today. The group includes representation from most of the big players in the 3D internet, including Nvidia, Meta, Epic Games, Unity, Microsoft, and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

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Podcast: Metaverse Standards Forum Unites Leading Standards Orgs & XR Companies Towards Open Metaverse Interoperability

Podcast: Metaverse Standards Forum Unites Leading Standards Orgs & XR Companies Towards Open Metaverse Interoperability

I had a chance to speak with President of The Khronos Group Neil Trevett as well as Vice President of the Khronos Group Martin Enthed, who also works as an Innovation Manager at IKEA. We unpack this announcement a bit to talk about at what level of interoperability the Metaverse Standards Forum will be starting at, and whether it’s at the level of 3D assets like glTF or at the level of game engine formats and scene graph representations like USD.

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