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Press Releases and Reports
Metaverse Standards Forum 2024 Annual Report
The Metaverse Standards Forum marked a significant milestone in April 2024 by celebrating its first anniversary as an independent, non-profit, industry consortium. As we reflect on our journey, we want to share the Forum's accomplishments and milestones throughout...
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
Linked Spatial Experiences: The Web of Worlds
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 was explained in more detail in our previous blog “Building The World Wide...
Building The World Wide Webiverse
3D Web Interoperability Working Group Vision The Metaverse Standards Forum's mission[1] is to foster and guide the development of interoperability standards that will drive the newly emerging spatial web. By providing a collaborative venue for stakeholders, the Forum...
Have Gaussian Splats Arrived in the Standardization Sweet Spot?
On Tuesday, January 22, the Metaverse Standards Forum (MSF) hosted a virtual town hall to explore a pressing question: Are Gaussian Splats (GS) ready for standardization? The event drew hundreds of participants and sparked a lively debate. The conversation has since...
In the News
Taking Yourself Into the Metaverse
Moving forward there will be a number of key “standardization” elements for avatars, such as body type, allowing avatar vendors to maintain their own IP, whilst enabling avatar interoperability with a myriad of Metaverse experiences. Organizations working on this include MSF, IEEE, and VRM.
OMA3 expands effort to make standards for the Open Spatial Internet
In 2023, OMA3 announced the start of work on the Inter World Portaling System (IWPS), the 3D hyperlink for the spatial internet, and released the initial specification draft for public comment in 2024 during a public forum on the specification with the Metaverse Standards Forum.
Is Gaussian Splatting Ready for Standardization?
Geo Week News reports on Metaverse Standards Forum’s Gaussian Splats Town Hall held in January.
Metaverse Org Declares the Technology Is Accelerating in Spite of Rise of AI
A new report from the Metaverse Standards Forum (MSF) declares the technology initiative is alive and well, despite skyrocketing attention paid to artificial intelligence.
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.