The Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) exists to advance the interests of the decentralized identity community, including performing research and development to advance "pre-competitive" technical foundations towards established interoperable, global standards.

IEEE is the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. IEEE and its members inspire a global community through its highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has been at the forefront of global technology standardization for almost 160 years. With a membership of 194 member states and more than 1000 companies, universities, and international and regional organizations the ITU serves as the primary international platform for all stakeholders to work together to ensure that the metaverse can be harnessed for the benefit of all, while minimizing potential risks and promoting sustainable development.

The mission of the Metaverse Acceleration and Sustainability Association (MASA) is to undertake activities to accelerate the development of metaverse-related technologies, ecosystems and markets across the world, and to do so in a sustainable manner, supporting sustainable development goals. Our workstreams include but are not limited to: - Landscape, Outlook, and Roadmaps - Open Standards, Conformity Assessment and Certification - Open-Source Reference Implementations and Pilot Applications - Digital Assets Pool and Exchange - Innovation-Driving Competitions and Rankings - Advocacy and Lobbying for Broad Acceptance and Adoption - Coordination for Responsible Development: Safety, Privacy, Ethics, Inclusion, and Sustainability - Metaverse Commercialization, Capitalization, and Monetization

MPAI is a not-for-profit organisation incorporated under the laws of Switzerland with the mission to promote the efficient use of Data by A) developing Technical Specifications of 1) Coding and decoding for any type of Data, especially using new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, and 2) technologies that facilitate integration of Data Coding and Decoding components in Information and Communication Technology systems, and by B) bridging the gap between Technical Specifications and their practical use through the development of Intellectual Property Rights Guidelines ("IPR Guidelines"), such as Framework Licences and other instruments.

The Object Management Group(R) Standards Development Organization (OMG(R) SDO) is an international (27 countries), membership-driven (230+ organizations) and not-for-profit consortiumMISSION STATEMENTTo generate technology standards (250+) that provide quantifiable real-world value to all vertical industries. That is why we are dedicated to bringing together our international membership community of end-users, researchers and vendors in academia government and industry to develop and revise our standards as technologies change over time.VISIONTo provide a neutral forum where best practices from a wide range of fields can be discussed and standards can be generated that drive the adoption and innovation of cutting-edge technology spanning industries worldwide. Our Standards Process is fair, robust, transparent, and well-documented, while our standards are implemented everywhere: agriculture (DDS), autonomous vehicles (DDS), avionics (SysML & UML), business (BPMN), energy (DDS), finance (FIBO & FIGI), healthcare (DDS), military (DDS, SysML, UML), retail (UPOS), telecommunications, transportation (DDS), and space (DDS, GEMS, SOLM, XTCE, XUSP). Our one organization-one vote policy ensures that every member organization, despite size, has an effective voice in our voting process."

Create standards, software repositories, and infrastructure for the Web3 metaverse

All real-world to digital world related use-cases that could benefit from open standards, protocols, architectures and best practice guidelines.

Open Source software projects for the Open Metaverse

The Open Metaverse Interoperability Group is an open source community of industry professionals, independent creators, and passionate enthusiasts whose goal is to build interoperable technology together. OMI's mission is to bridge virtual worlds across interfaces & technologies by researching, designing & promoting protocols for identity, social graphs, inventory, and sharing of creative work in the 3D web & open metaverse.

The Responsible Metaverse Alliance (RMA) is a social enterprise and international movement dedicated to supporting the development of the metaverse, and virtual worlds, so that they are handled responsibly from a perspective of design, deployment, safety, culture, inclusion, operations and function. The RMA has a focus on working with politicians, government officials, regulators and policy makers internationally, to support them in addressing potential harms of the metaverse.

The Spatial Web Foundation (SWF) is dedicated to ethical development and use of technology, particularly in the creation and implementation of the Spatial Web Protocol.

Global Vision: Unlocking physics in a computer.Global Mission: To unlock innovation and advancements across industries by creating a shared foundation for digital material representation.*Please see attached deck in the Supplementary Information section.

Open Standards for Real-time 3D Communication

Refine an open digital architecture to synergize virtual and physical traveler ecosystems

Network / cluster management in the field of XR: Our non-for-profit organisation comprises approx. 100 institutional members of XR end users, XR technology providers and XR research labs. Main goals of VDC business is first to support networking between our member organisations and second XR technology transfer to the industry, in particular to SMEs. We focus on B2B XR thus not XR gaming or XR entertainment. We provide the German XR community with relevant information on XR, including relevant norms, standards, guidelines on XR. We do formulate position papers adressed to politics and administration to foster XR usage. Latest position papers included XR standardisation needs and XR user interface design needs. We are active in XR standards mapping. We are member of Khronos, IEEE and DIN e.V.

Web standardization

An American nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering the growth of the open-source Metaverse, founded upon universal interoperability of open standards and protocols, decentralized away from individual corporations and government regulations.

XR Safety Initiative (XRSI) is a 501(c)(3) global non-profit Standards Developing Organization(SDO)that offers advisory services to promote privacy, security, and ethics in the emerging technology domain. XRSI's mission is to help build safe and inclusive emerging tech ecosystem.