Meta, Microsoft, and Other Tech Giants Launch Metaverse Standards Forum 

Meta, Microsoft, and 31 more companies have united to form an organisation to promote the creation of open standards regarding metaverse technology. The institution named the Metaverse Standards Forum will focus on establishing standards to make each one of the metaverses on the internet interoperable, which would ideally permit these worlds to communicate.

The Metaverse Standard Forum Is Born

While the metaverse is a loose concept that each company interprets and builds, it is important to connect these individual worlds. This is why Meta, Microsoft, and other tech giants have gathered together to form the Metaverse Standards Forum, an organisation created to promote the interoperability of these metaverses.

Launch PR statement:

"[The body] will focus on pragmatic, action-based projects such as implementation prototyping, hackathons, plugfests, and open-source tooling to accelerate the testing and adoption of metaverse standards, while also developing consistent terminology and deployment guidelines."

The organisation will act as a hub for the amalgamation of different Standards Developing Organisations (SDOs) in the fields of VR, graphics, and interactions.

The creation of the group is seen as a statement about the consensus among the companies on the importance of creating open standards for the metaverse concept. Neil Trevett, President of Khronos, an organisation that is part of the group, stated:

"The metaverse will bring together diverse technologies, requiring a constellation of interoperability standards, created and maintained by many standards organisations."

Big Names Absent

The group states that it is an open organisation, available to all interested groups free of charge, but some big names have not joined the group. Apple is one of the biggest tech companies in the world with an interest in VR and AR (augmented reality) technology and has not joined the forum. Other significant gaming metaverses, like Roblox, are not in the group.