An avatar is generally intended as a representation of a real or fictitious human in a virtual space. Research has dedicated much effort to creating and animating realistic avatars. However, the scope of use is typically assumed to be a closed environment such as a proprietary video game. Therefore, the portability of avatars has seldom been a priority. Some 30 years ago, the Humanoid Animation (H-Anim) standard was developed that defined a human skeleton composed of joints, segments, and sites…

The MPAI Metaverse Model - Technologies standard - in short, MMM-TEC V2.0 - is the first open metaverse standard enabling independently designed and implemented defines a metaverse instance (that MMM-TEC calls M-Instances) and clients to interoperate. These are the main MMM-TEC elements: The Architecture is based on Processes acting on Items based on the Rights they hold. Items represent any abstract and concrete objects in an M-Instance. Processes - possibly in different M-Instances - communicate using the Inter-Process Protocol (IPP).…

MPAI is about AI-enabled data coding across a very wide range of industries. Some industries are unable to negate dearly held traditions and make firm decisions, like MPEG standards did by specifying technology up to the last bit. MPAI must take this reluctance as a requirement for some of its standards. How can we then make standards that are technology agnostic? A standard should respond to a need and digging inside that need is a prerequisite for a meaningful standard.…