Meta, Microsoft and other tech giants competing to develop the concept of metaverse they have formed a group aimed at setting industry standards that would make the nascent digital worlds of companies compatible with one another.
The participants in the Metaverse Standards Forum They include many of the largest companies working in cyberspace, from chipmakers to video game companies, as well as established bodies like the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)the group said in a statement issued Tuesday.
But conspicuously absent from the list was Apple, which analysts expect to become a dominant player in the race for the metaverse once it introduces a mixed reality headset this year or next.
game companies Roblox and Niantic They were also not included among the forum participants, nor were emerging crypto-based metaverse platforms like The Sandbox or Decentraland.
Manzana It has yet to publicly acknowledge plans for a new headset, though it has reportedly given its board a sneak peek at the product, according to Bloomberg. He did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the new metaverse forum.
The introduction of such a device would put Manzana in direct competition with Meta, which has staked its future on the growth of the metaverse and invested heavily in hardware to realize your vision of interconnected virtual worlds.
target, known as Facebook until it changed its name as part of its focus on the metaverse last year, it has revealed plans to release a mixed reality headset codenamed “Cambria” this year.
Manzana has been heavily involved in creating web standards like HTML5 in the past. For three-dimensional content in the metaverse, Manzana worked with Pixar on the “USDZ” file format and with Adobe to make sure it was compatible with the format.
Neil Trevett, an executive at chipmaker Nvidia who chairs the Metaverse Standards Forumsaid in a statement to Reuters that any company is welcome to join the group, including participants from the world of cryptocurrencies.
The forum is intended to facilitate communication between a variety of organizations and standards companies to achieve “real-world interoperability” in the metaverse, he said, without addressing how Apple’s absence would affect that goal.