Meta, Microsoft, and other companies like Epic Games have gathered together to found the Metaverse Standards Forum, an organization created to promote interoperability.
[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 forum will not create standards by itself.
The organization will act as a hub for the amalgamation of different Standards Developing Organizations in fields including VR, graphics, and interactions, among others.The creation of such a group is seen by some as a statement about the consensus in these companies on the importance of creating open standards for the metaverse concept.
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