The Open Metaverse Interoperability Group is focused on bridging virtual worlds by designing and promoting protocols for identity, social graphs, inventory, and more. Our members include businesses and individuals working towards this common goal. Aside from technical work, OMI aims to create a community of artists, creators, developers, and other innovators to discuss and explore concepts surrounding the design and development of virtual worlds.

• We collaborate, driven by research, privacy and accessibility, to make the metaverse more human.
• We work incrementally, iteratively, and with intent.
• We are creating a cooperative, sustainable culture of innovation.
• We empower the people making the metaverse.
• We must cultivate resiliency by championing diversity, and freedom of choice.

Click on any of these links to contribute to their associated Github Discussions / Issues:

• Define key results for each of our objectives ✔️
• Appoint one or more chairs for our W3C Community Group ✔️
• Define our scope of work
• Determine what OMI's responsibilities are outside of standards/protocols
• Write up our community group charter
• Explore incentives for participation in OMI

Are you passionate about the metaverse? Join us!

Informal discussions are happening on discord, join our Discord. However, if you want to catch up on topics, ask questions, or discuss new ideas we highly encourage you contribute to our GitHub Discussions, and come to one of our meetings.

If you'd like to submit a proposal for a specification or other work item. Please see the PROCESS document.

We recently formed a W3C Community Group to help structure our standards work and provide ourselves a proper IP protection framework.

To become a member of the W3C Metaverse Interoperability Community Group, you can join here.

• Robert Long
• Jesse Alton
• Evo Heyning

We have weekly meetings on Wednesdays at 9:00 AM Pacific Time in the omi-weekly-meeting channel of the AngellXR Discord.

Next Meeting info:

• Weekly Meeting 21 (9/14/2021 9:00 AM PDT)
  • Agenda/Discussion

Join our Discord, follow our Twitter account, or add our calendar to get notified about OMI meetings and events.

• Weekly Meeting 1 (4/11/2021)
  • Recording
  • Notes
• Weekly Meeting 2 (4/24/2021)
  • Recording
  • Notes
• OKR Workshop (5/5/2021)
  • Workshop FigJam
• Weekly Meeting 3 (5/12/2021 9:00 AM PDT)
  • Agenda/Discussion
  • Recording
• OMI Community / Incentives Forum (5/14/2021 12:00 PM PDT)
  • Agenda/Discussion
• Weekly Meeting 4 (5/19/2021 9:00 AM PDT)
  • Agenda/Discussion
• Weekly Meeting 5 (5/26/2021 9:00 AM PDT)
  • Agenda/Discussion
• Weekly Meeting 6 (6/2/2021 9:00 AM PDT)
  • Agenda/Discussion
  • Notes
  • Recording
• Weekly Meeting 7 (6/9/2021 9:00 AM PDT)
  • Agenda/Discussion
  • Notes
  • Recording
• Weekly Meeting 8 (6/16/2021 9:00 AM PDT)
  • Agenda/Discussion
  • Notes
  • Recording
• Weekly Meeting 9 (6/23/2021 9:00 AM PDT)
  • Agenda/Discussion
  • Notes
  • Recording
• Weekly Meeting 10 (6/30/2021 9:00 AM PDT)
  • Agenda/Discussion
  • Notes
  • Recording
• Weekly Meeting 11 (7/7/2021 9:00 AM PDT)
  • Agenda/Discussion
• Weekly Meeting 12 (7/14/2021 9:00 AM PDT)
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• Weekly Meeting 13 (7/21/2021 9:00 AM PDT)
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• Weekly Meeting 14 (7/28/2021 9:00 AM PDT)
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• Weekly Meeting 15 (8/04/2021 9:00 AM PDT)
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• Weekly Meeting 16 (8/11/2021 9:00 AM PDT)
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• Weekly Meeting 17 (8/18/2021 9:00 AM PDT)
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• Weekly Meeting 18 (8/25/2021 9:00 AM PDT)
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• Weekly Meeting 19 (9/1/2021 9:00 AM PDT)
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• Weekly Meeting 20 (9/8/2021 9:00 AM PDT)
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• Weekly Meeting 23 (10/6/2021 9:00 AM PDT)
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While we don't have an official scope of work for OMI set yet, here are a few areas we are looking into.

• Identity
• Friends List / Social Graph
• Inventory / Trading Virtual Items
• Avatars
• 3D Content
• Portable Scripted Objects / Scenes

No. Any one group, be it a company or organization cannot build the metaverse. With OMI we hope to form consensus around ways we can turn siloed virtual worlds into a network of interoperable worlds. People have very different ideas of what their worlds should look like and how they should operate. It's not our job to tell them how to create their worlds. We aim to bring world builders together and create protocols so that traversing the metaverse is as seamless as possible.