View Working Group Charter The metaverse for industrial use cases is expected to be deployed prior to and to grow rapidly by comparison with the consumer market over the next few years. The consumer market is mostly gaming-centric with willingness-to-pay, QoE and form-factors still requiring improvement for mass scale deployment and device proliferation. The industrial metaverse benefits from use-cases having clear and attractive return on investments. While the consumer market is still awaiting a technological breakthrough, the early industry and enterprise use cases have been proven and ..read more

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View Working Group Charter Generate insights and interoperability on Digital Fashion including clothing (with a layering system), shoes, hats, and accessories. The group is surveying the current landscape of existing file formats for storing avatars and related assets, generating use cases and requirements for avatar customisation, and defining logic for a wearables system including dress up, dress down, and replace options. The group is also considering developing an open source avatar validation tool for reliable import and export from popular authoring tools such as Blender. Join Us ..read more

In the rapidly evolving landscape of the Metaverse, the Digital Asset Management (DAM) Domain Working Group at the Metaverse Standards Forum is dedicated to bridging the gap between various industry stakeholders, including standards development organizations (SDOs), to streamline the interoperability and efficient management of digital assets. The DAM Working Group’s primary focus is on facilitating inclusive and open communication across industries and communities, ensuring a collaborative approach towards the development of non-proprietary standards. Driven by a vision of an open, secure ..read more

View Working Group Charter Defining constructs to describe and integrate the physical world and created (digital) representations. The group is examining current technologies and standards around semantic representations, Unique Real-world Identifiers, OGC GeoPose 1.0, Digital Twins, IoT, WoT, and Sensor ontologies to understand and recommend technical methods to integrate created content with reality. Join Us and Help Build the Open Metaverse The Forum and this Working Group are open to any organization that wishes to join.  There are two tiers of Forum membership – Participants j ..read more

View Working Group Charter Approved with very strong interest from the Forum members, the urgent priority of this group is to deliver recommendations for responsible innovation that mitigates human and societal harm from objective and subjective privacy risks – including privacy, cybersecurity, and identity risk management at the global level. The Working Group will curate standards, guidelines, policies, and technical frameworks for various metaverse-related use cases and across various jurisdictions. Join Us and Help Build the Open Metaverse The Forum and this Working Group are open t ..read more

View Working Group Charter To collect use cases and related requirements for network capabilities to support metaverse applications, e.g. latency, jitter, throughput, time synchronization. Includes documenting applicable QoE metrics and defining requirements for network-to-network interfaces such as atomic clock synchronization from satellite to backbone to access network. Join Us and Help Build the Open Metaverse The Forum and this Working Group are open to any organization that wishes to join.  There are two tiers of Forum membership – Participants join the Forum for free and hav ..read more

View Working Group Charter To provide guidance to the industry to help enable a proper troubleshooting in case of errors, identifying the source. This Group will also provide a testbed (including possibly referencing existing requirements/tests) in order to confirm that devices support a common set of features, so that end users can enjoy consistent experiences no matter what brand of device they own. The quality of the graphics/audio might be scaled to device capabilities, but the experience should be usable without manual user intervention. Join Us and Help Build the Open Metaverse Th ..read more

View Working Group Charter The mission of the 3D Web Interoperability Working Group is to enable metaverse capabilities and content to be deployed on the web through informing and encouraging the web standards ecosystem to evolve to support metaverse use cases and for the web to support and leverage broader metaverse interoperability initiatives. Join Us and Help Build the Open Metaverse The Forum and this Working Group are open to any organization that wishes to join.  There are two tiers of Forum membership – Participants join the Forum for free and have access to all plenary mee ..read more

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