Meta, Microsoft and other tech giants announce the establishment and launch of the Meta Universe Standards Forum

June 21 – Technology giants including Meta, Microsoft, Sony and others have announced the formation and launch of the Metaverse Standards Forum to promote industry-wide collaboration on interoperability standards in the amorphous online space, according to TheBlock. The Forum is hosted by the Khronos Group, a non-profit consortium of 170 organizations that support interoperability standards in industries such as 3D graphics, VR, AR and machine learning. The new forum is free and open to any organization. It will focus on projects aimed at enabling prototyping, hackathons, plugins and open source tools to promote testing and adoption of metaverse standards. The more than 37 founding members of the Meta Universe Standards Forum now include Meta, Microsoft, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Epic Games and Chinese tech giants Alibaba and Huawei, among others.