About
There exists no Metaverse that is not The Open Metaverse.
Our story
The Open Metaverse Foundation is dedicated to working with industry leaders, companies and thought leading individuals to help build an open and inclusive Metaverse.
We are a non-profit organization that employs the 3C-2D methodology for standards development. The 3C-2D method is a hybridization of conventional standards bodies governed by committee and the emergence of DAOs. There are challenges to conventional standards bodies including decisions made by the few and the significant cost for membership. The 3C-2D method breaks apart the legacy model with Contribute, Collaborate, Codify and Decision by DAO. DAO tokens are voting chips, but a DAO alone is not always effective since not all decisions are binary and many require conversation and subsequent iterations and improvements before a standard is codified. With this method we believe in voting with contributions and code, if a company, organization, communities or individuals are able to produce the specifications and demonstrate capabilities then they have effectively voted with their contribution. We value contributions, code and proof of concept over conjecture and speculation. We will provide more details on this as we continue to unroll the OMF.
Our Vision
There is no Metaverse that is not the Open Metaverse.
To build the one and only Metaverse, will require cross industry collaboration and cooperation, open standards and human-first design in order to build an open, accessible and equitable Metaverse.
Our Mission
Our mission is to build a Metaverse for all. One that gives power to creators. Is accessible and inclusive. One that gives freedom of choice. To make The Metaverse an ethical and equitable space.
We are guided by the Metaverse Code of Ethics
- Promote the well being of yourself and others
- Design for privacy and security and honor confidentiality
- Maintain controllability of technologies (especially AI)
- Consider all risks and foster public awareness of consequences
- Be fair and take action not to discriminate, let your work be inclusive and representative
- Practice openness and transparency
- Invite diverse stakeholder input and encourage discourse
- Promote values of autonomy, transparency, explainability and trustworthiness
- Honor the work of creators
- Respect the work required to produce new ideas, inventions, creative works and computation artifacts
- Enforce ethical behavior at all levels
- Make ethical reflection and practice the standard
- Have a bias for action when the code is not adhered to