Microsoft, Meta, and others are founding a metaverse open standards group
by Adi Robertson from The Verge - All Posts on (#60KS5)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge 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.
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,...