Stay informed about the latest Metaverse news and trends, including virtual reality, augmented reality, and more. Our expert journalists bring you the most up-to-date information and analysis on the ever-evolving world of the Metaverse. Join us for an exciting journey into the future of digital experiences.
Standards wars over USD vs. glTF will decide who profits from 3D commerce. Inside the Metaverse Standards Forum, engineers align materials, physics, and metadata to slash conversion costs, save studios thousands, and enable scalable AR catalogs, or lock in costly defaults. Read how format choices become competitive strategy right now.
Meta’s January 7, 2025 moderation pivot could flood virtual worlds with unchecked abuse, undermining creators, sponsors and economies. Small metaverse teams face costly real-time moderation, brand risk, and creator migration. Firms that build fast safety tools will win reliable revenue. Learn why the industry must adapt — immediately or perish.
OSgrid is back after a sweeping asset rebuild — what looked like routine maintenance masked a structural reset that wiped hundreds of thousands of regions, reshaped map reservations, and exposed fragile asset portability. Small studios must export, backup, and test now or risk losing months of work. Read what to do.
Discover how lifelike avatars are transforming small teams’ sales, training and collaboration—turning virtual presence into real revenue. Learn practical pilot plans, hidden maintenance costs, platform power struggles, and legal risks that could sink or scale your business. Ready to make a persona that closes deals without boarding a plane today?
Discover why the metaverse still needs human taste, judgment, and courage: from moderators who read context to designers who make stairs “hopeful” not menacing. Learn which roles survive automation, how small teams should budget people over tools, and why human oversight is the competitive moat every virtual business must build.
OpenSimulator Community Conference invites proposals, deadline Oct 13, for the Dec 6–7, 2025 event. Explore an open metaverse alternative where small teams host branded virtual events affordably, avoid vendor lock‑in, reuse community modules, and build talent pipelines. Click to view CFP, cost comparisons, case studies, and practical tips right now.
Discover how the Metaverse Standards Forum’s Forum Labs transforms specs into battle tested tools. With p‑NET as inaugural Principal Lab, testbeds, plugfests and open tooling speed XR from spec to production, slashing integration time, costs and risk. Click to learn how standards will be broken, fixed, and proven in public.
OpenSim’s ‘Synthetic Dreams’ crashed The Wrong Biennale, opening a portal where art, AI, and ledger tests collide. A grassroots metaverse proves festival legitimacy can force moderation, funding, and governance choices—threatening gatekeepers and tempting studios. Click to explore how low-cost, open grids are rewriting cultural power in virtual space right now.
GenAI in the live game loop will remake metaverse design, budgets, and moderation. This guide exposes latency, memory, and cost trade-offs for small studios, plus proven integration patterns and a risk-first roadmap. Read it to learn how to ship believable AI NPCs, avoid viral failures, and scale with predictable costs.
Quiet but seismic: the Metaverse Standards Forum’s Q2 report shows XR accessibility moving from ideals to enforceable rules. Standards, white paper findings, and tool roadmaps will reshape procurement, budgets, and who can compete. Small studios face real immediate costs, and clients will soon demand proof that experiences work for everyone.
