Microsoft, Facebook, and Others Are Founding a Metaverse Open Standards Group

Microsoft, Epic Games, Meta, and 33 other companies and organizations have formed a standards group for 'metaverse' tech. The Metaverse Standards Forum is supposed to foster open, interoperable standards for augmented and virtual reality, geospatial, and 3D tech. From a report: According to a press release, the Metaverse Standards Forum will focus on 'pragmatic, action-based projects' like hackathons and prototyping tools for supporting common standards. It's also interested in developing 'consistent terminology' for the space -- where many players can't even agree on what a 'metaverse' is. In addition to the companies above, the group's founding members include major pre-metaverse entities like the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Nvidia, Qualcomm, Sony Interactive Entertainment, and Unity, in addition to newer ones like Lamina1, a blockchain payments startup co-founded by Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson.

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