China convenes Huawei, Tencent, Baidu to draft metaverse standards in bid to become global technology leader
- The working group consists of 60 experts, including those from the private sector as well as government officials and academic researchers
- The group is tasked with building, maintaining and promoting metaverse industry standards, China’s technology regulator says
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has assembled 60 experts, including some from the country’s largest technology firms, to form a new working group to establish standards for the metaverse sector.
Representatives from telecoms equipment giant Huawei Technologies, video gaming titans Tencent Holdings and NetEase, web search and artificial intelligence champion Baidu, financial technology firm Ant Group and computer maker Lenovo Group are among those on the list published by the MIIT on Friday.
Ant is an affiliate of Alibaba Group Holding, owner of the Post.
Other members include MIIT officials and researchers from Peking University, Fudan University and other renowned institutions in the country.
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The MIIT in September proposed to form a working group to “guide the healthy and orderly development of the metaverse industry through standard regulation”, cautioning that the sector was facing ethical and security challenges.
The group would be tasked with “building and maintaining a system of metaverse industry standards”, “promoting the standards” and “training talent”, the regulator said in its proposal.
