The Linux Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting innovation through open source, has announced the launch of the Open Metaverse Foundation to provide a space for collaboration to achieve virtual worlds. inclusive, global, scalable and operating with standardized and open technologiesindependent of any company.

Metaverse was a trendy concept in the technology field last year. Ever since Mark Zuckerberg announced a strategic commitment to his social network, including a name change from Facebook to Meta, the concept has gone viral, with companies big and small announcing plans to jump on the bandwagon of what promises to be the next great communication platform. scope of the World Wide Web.

However, as much as Zuckerberg wants to be the “King” of the Metaverse, a project of such colossal proportions will be the task of many and involve the entire technology industry. Intel has already warned that we will need to increase the current computing power by 1000 to make this possible. And that’s just one part of the puzzle that requires realistic representation of people and environments, and no less advances in artificial intelligence, virtual/augmented reality, and many other areas.

And so it is that there is not even a common and concrete definition of the Metaverse outside of a shared virtual space that uses virtual reality, augmented reality, avatars and the Internet, as first defined by Neal Stephenson in a science fiction novel. Snow crash.

Open Metaverse Foundation: The Open Metaverse

The Metaverse is very, very green, but it is advisable to prepare the future so that no one appropriates it. With this in mind, the Linux Foundation proposed to create a collaborative framework that would create a strong community of developers, engineers, academics, and thought leaders capable of addressing the enormous challenges of building it through open source software and standards. portability and interoperability inclusive and global virtual worlds that benefit every individual or industry.

Through the Open Metaverse Foundation “We will work together to discuss, identify and create the building blocks to turn the emerging Metaverse concept into reality.”. To begin with, eight “Core Interest Groups” (FIGs) have been set up to address what are considered to be key:

1. users
2. transaction
3. digital assets
4. Simulation and virtual worlds
5. Artificial Intelligence
6. sewing
7. security and privacy
8. legal and political

These OBRs provide specific resources and forums for identifying new ideas, getting work done, and engaging new collaborators. They consist of members from specific disciplines who are committed to championing scalable projects or technologies within their theme, as well as ensuring code ownership of each identifiable subset of projects. the task is herculean and includes back-end services; standards; things like digital ID representations for users and objects; receipts for testing and trading or communicating with other worlds, so users can come and go without disrupting the immersive experience.

“We are still in the early days of envisioning an open Metaverse, and we recognize that many open source communities and foundations are working on vital pieces of this interactive puzzle.”explained Royal O’Brien, CEO of OMF. “While these challenges may seem daunting, I am excited about the opportunities to work with the broader global community to put the pieces together as we make this vision a reality.”Explain.

Indeed, Metaverse must work with standardized and open technologiesindependent of specific companies and have the support of the whole industry if one day we want to achieve inclusive and global virtual worlds and end up with another big fiasco like so far related terms (not the same) as virtual reality.