Which also includes Tony Parisi, a pioneer of the XR space going back to VRML. I am not sure if the article is as concrete as the headline suggests, but they d

Which also includes Tony Parisi, a pioneer of the XR space going back to VRML. I am not sure if the article is as concrete as the headline suggests, but they did push back a conference date that was supposed to have been earlier this month and are still invitation sandboxed last I heard. There is a lot of the interop work going on for VRM avatar portability issues [1] loosely tied up with progress on glTF/USD extensions at standard setting orgs like the Metaverse Standards Forum [2] so something will happen in this area even if it's not Lamina1 who are at least well positioned. [1] https://github.com/M3-org/avatar-interop https://github.com/M3-org/avatar-interop [2] https://metaverse-standards.org/ https://metaverse-standards.org/