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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....
Metaverse Standards Forum Enters Liaison Agreement with OMA3
In the spirit of cooperation to expand metaverse interoperability, the Metaverse Standards Forum and OMA3 (Open Metaverse Alliance for Web3) have entered into a liaison agreement to encourage and enable deeper mutual member engagement across both organizations. Under...
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...
In the News
Major XR Players Join New Metaverse Forum to Cooperate on Foundational Standards
Khronos Group, the consortium behind the OpenXR standard, is helping to assemble other XR industry players in service of cooperatively building interoperability standards for what it hopes will be an “open and inclusive metaverse.”
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).
Khronos Group launches standards effort for an open and interoperable metaverse
The Metaverse Standards Forum is announcing that it will attempt to create standards for industries to create an open, interoperable, and inclusive metaverse.
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.
Meta and other tech giants form metaverse standards body, without Apple
Meta, Microsoft and other tech giants racing to build the emerging metaverse concept have formed a group to foster development of industry standards that would make the companies’ nascent digital worlds compatible with each other.