Why Establishing Standards Will Be Key to the Metaverse’s Future with Neil Trevett - Step into the Metaverse podcast: EP26
In this episode of the Step into the Metaverse Podcast, I had a chat with Neil Trevett, the Vice President of Developer Ecosystems at NVIDIA, where he is responsible for enabling and encouraging advanced applications to use GPU acceleration. Neil is also serving as the elected President of the Khronos Group, where he created and chaired the OpenGL ES working group that defined the industry standard for 3D graphics on mobile devices. At Khronos, he also chairs the OpenCL working group for portable, parallel heterogeneous computing, helped initiate the WebGL standard that is bringing interactive 3D graphics to the web and is now working to help formulate standards for vision and neural network inferencing.
Previously, as Vice President of 3Dlabs, Neil was at the forefront of the silicon revolution bringing interactive 3D to the PC, and he established the embedded graphics division of 3Dlabs to bring advanced visual processing to a wide range of non-PC platforms. Neil was elected President for eight consecutive years of the Web3D Consortium dedicated to creating open standards for communicating real-time 3D on the Internet.
Neil will talk to us about a constellation of standards necessary to have a truly interconnected metaverse or an interoperable metaverse. We discussed the need for an open metaverse, what we need to do to achieve that, and how we can keep our data private in the metaverse. Don’t miss out on our super interesting conversation!
Highlights
- [01:32] - The Khronos Group and how he’s involved in the metaverse.
- [03:54] - How a Darwinian approach to the metaverse will work.
- [05:33] - Steps needed to ensure a more open metaverse.
- [06:40] - The importance of identity and repetition in relation to interoperability.
- [10:30] - Navigating the slow pace of standards development.
- [15:29] - What standards will look like in both the consumer and enterprise metaverse.
- [20:00] - Finding stuff in the metaverse and how standards will help keep data private in the metaverse.
Quotes
“You can’t force openness in the metaverse. The openness has to earn its right to exist through adding value” - Neil Trevett
“We need a constellation of standards” - Neil Trevett
“We thought getting the web to work was cool. Getting the spatial web to work is gonna be super cool” - Neil Trevett
“Standards can provide the building blocks for the technical solution on how can we make something secure” - Neil Trevett
Learn More About Neil Trevett in the Links Below:
- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/neil-trevett-748791/
- Twitter - https://twitter.com/neilt3d
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Dr. Mark van Rijmenam is a strategic futurist known as The Digital Speaker. He stands at the forefront of the digital age and lives and breathes cutting-edge technologies to inspire Fortune 500 companies and governments worldwide. As an optimistic dystopian, he has a deep understanding of AI, blockchain, the metaverse, and other emerging technologies, and he blends academic rigour with technological innovation.
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