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The Metaverse Standards Forum Where Leading Standards Organizations and Companies Cooperate to Foster Interoperability Standards for an Open Metaverse Metaverse Standards Forum is now incorporated as an independent nonprofit consortium. Building an Open Metaverse Open to any organization the Metaverse Standards Forum provides a venue for cooperation between standards organizations and companies to foster the development of interoperability standards for an open and inclusive metaverse and accelerate their development and deployment through pragmatic actionbased projects. Forum Establishes Pipeline of Exploratory and Domain Working Groups The Forum has initiated a pipeline of memberdriven Exploratory and Working Groups that are meeting regularly to create Charters and execute the projects they define. The Working Groups currently include 3D Asset Interoperability using USD and glTF 3D Web InteroperabilityAccessibility in the Metaverse Digital Asset Management Digital Fashion Wearables for Avatars Metaverse Educational Register Ethical Principles for the Metaverse Interoperable CharactersAvatars Industrial Metaverse Interoperability Metaverse Standards Register Network Requirements and Capabilities Privacy Cybersecurity Identity RealVirtual World Integration and Technical Interoperability and EndUser Troubleshooting Volumetric Media Interoperability.