Tech firms attempt to standardise the metaverse

Meta (Facebook), Nvidia, Epic, Microsoft and others have signed up to The Metaverse Standards Forum, which wants to establish some consistency on open standards and terminology surrounding the metaverse.
It’s hard to say exactly what the metaverse is. Is it a meaningless buzzword, the next level of human interaction, a bad bet by Mark Zuckerberg, or simply VR gaming by another name? You can find plenty of people describing it as all of these and more.
Perhaps partly driven by a desire to a