China to set standards for the metaverse because it's not sure what one is

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announced Monday it will form a working group to set metaverse standards - becuase without them, metaversal matters have meandered. Beijing’s latest regulatory effort seeks to accelerate standardization of whatever a metaverse is, and keep up with the pace of …

[Sora2566]

I bet China wants to set Metaverse standards just so that people look to them as an authority, not because they seriously think it's going anywhere.

[ChoHag]

> “Some capital and enterprises have taken advantage of the popularity of the metaverse to speculate, resulting in its concept far from the actual value, which restricts the development of the metaverse industry to a certain extent,” said MIIT.

Translation: people are using it to make their own money and we can't have that.

[Jimmy2Cows]

Re: have taken advantage of the popularity of the metaverse

What popularity is this? Though the entire concept had been a massive overhyped flop.

[Anonymous Coward]

gamers and developers define metaverse

[Anonymous Coward]

Point me at the ISO number.