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

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.

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.

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.