The Metaverse Standards Forum maintains a pipeline of member-driven Exploratory and Working Groups to address interoperability challenges and opportunities in multiple Domains that are vital to the metaverse. These Domain Groups meet regularly to build consensus on their Charters and then execute the projects they define. Any Forum member is welcome to initiate, participate in, and stand for election to lead Forum Exploratory and Working Groups
Approved Working Groups
3D Assets Working Group focuses on facilitating the industry-wide transition from today’s predominantly 2D digital content to a future where 3D becomes the default medium for users. This migration introduces a set of challenges involving diverse rendering engines and formats, heterogeneous devices and hardware, spatial interaction models, and new considerations for performance, visual fidelity and interoperability.
Accessibility in the Metaverse
The “Accessibility in the Metaverse” working group would be dedicated to securing accessibility for everyone in the metaverse. Our goal is to generate insights, identify risks, and recommend strategies and best practices to ensure that virtual environments, experiences, and interactions are accessible to all, regardless of abilities or disabilities. The group will also explore the accessibility needs of metaverse content creators and developers in addition to end users and how accessible experiences benefit the organizations creating them. By promoting accessibility, we can achieve interoperability and full participation across metaverse experiences for everyone. Non-goals include developing specific technical solutions or products.
AI x Metaverse
The AI in the Metaverse Exploratory Group will serve as a coordination hub among standards development organizations (SDOs) focused on metaverse AI, while recruiting experts and companies to join the Metaverse Standards Forum (MSF). It will survey existing standards, produce a gap analysis with use cases, and initiate projects not addressed elsewhere—such as AI agents. The group will highlight SDO efforts, make recommendations, plan AI-related events, and define AI interoperability categories. It will also propose best practices for AI in MSF operations and maintain a regular meeting cadence. As an exploratory body, it will recruit leadership, develop a vision statement, coordinate with SDOs on outreach, and manage operational needs—without defining standards, datasets, or platform-specific implementations.
Digital Asset Management
Exploring the standards landscape relating to the protection of digital rights, portability, access, availability, and other areas impacting the management of digital virtual assets. The group is aiming to establish guiding principles that would address the transport, exchange, monetization, and access related to 3D digital assets throughout the metaverse stack.
Approved Exploratory Groups
Build consensus and draft a proposed charter for a “Decentralized Web3 Services requirements and capabilities to support Metaverse applications” Domain Working Group
Facilitating discussion between ecosystem stakeholders for the purpose of identifying challenges and recommending solutions for XR device and experience interoperability to help accelerate the time-to-market, performance, and useability.