9 days ago | By The Verge
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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...
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9 days ago | By ZDnet
The new forum is for companies and standards organizations that want to influence the basic standards that will serve as the foundations for an open metaverse.
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