June 28th, 2022

The German XR firm will contribute its mixed reality solutions to the Open Metaverse

NeXR Technologies SE has become the latest company to sign up for the Metaverse Standards Forum, a group of over 30 tech firms, associations, and entities developing an interoperable Metaverse, it was revealed on Tuesday.
The Berlin, Germany-based firm hopes to contribute its knowledge of open interoperability standards, avatar development, motion capturing (mocap), and virtual reality technologies for building the Metaverse with collaborators by joining the 35-member group.
The company touts a lineup of cloud-based XR technologies such as its Avatar.Cloud and Event.Cloud platforms, with the former tapping body tracking tools for virtual fitting rooms and the latter leveraging Epic Games’ Unreal Engine to host avatars and metaverse solutions for virtual events.

The Forum aims to develop open Metaverse standards and unite the industry to leverage Web3 technologies to build the Metaverse — widely seen as the successor to the mobile internet.
The news comes as members, which include major companies such as Adobe, Epic Games, the Web3D Consortium, the XR Association, Meta Platforms, and many others, launched the MSF in June to facilitate collaboration across the extended reality (XR) industry to build interoperability standards.
The collection of standard developing organisations (SDOs) aims to promote the widespread adoption of novel standards for the Metaverse as well as reduce reoccurrences of developmental work.

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