Meta, Microsoft and other technology giants are vying to build the emerging concept of a metaverse, forming a team to encourage the development of industry standards that would make companies’ nascent digital worlds compatible with each other.
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Participants in the Metaverse Standards Forum include many of the largest companies operating in the space, from chip makers to gaming companies, as well as established standard-setting bodies such as the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a statement from the group, announcing its creation on Tuesday.
For now, however, he is clearly missing from the list of members of Apple, which analysts expect to become the dominant player in the race for the metaverse, after presenting mixed-reality headphones this or next year.
The gaming companies Roblox and Niantic were also not included in the forum, nor were emerging crypto-based meta-universal platforms such as The Sandbox or Decentraland.
Apple has not yet publicly acknowledged its plans for the headset, although it reportedly gave the board a brief look at the product, according to Bloomberg. He did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the new metauniverse forum.
The introduction of such a device would put Apple in direct competition with Meta, which is betting its future on the growth of the metaverse and investing heavily in hardware to make its vision of interconnected virtual worlds a reality.
Meta, known as Facebook, until it changed its name as part of the metaverse last year, has revealed plans for a mixed-reality headset codenamed “Cambria” to be released this year.
Apple has been heavily involved in creating web standards such as HTML5 in the past. For 3D content in the metaverse, Apple is working with Pixar on the USDZ file format and Adobe to ensure it supports the format.
Neil Trevet, chief executive of chipmaker Nvidia, which chairs the Metaverse Standards Forum, told Reuters that any company was welcome to join the group, including members of the crypto world.
The forum aims to facilitate communication between various standardization organizations and companies to achieve “real-world interoperability” in the metaverse, he said, without addressing how Apple’s absence would affect that goal.
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