2 Justification

Current metaverse services are mostly focusing contents which look like the early stage of internet.

As the internet has been extended to Internet of Things, the metaverse will expand its scope to connect the real physical world. It means oneM2M is on the connecting point between the metaverse services and the real world.

Since oneM2M offers its new features of IoT as the element technologies of Release 5, the metaverse will be a good candidate of a key feature of Release 5.

This Work Item will consider as follows:

• Definition of "IoT in the metaverse" in the context of oneM2M
• Use cases to show clearly that the metaverse services based on IoT
  • Potential Common Service Functions that enable metaverse services based on IoT
  • Interworking with considering the status of other SDOs
  • Information Model of metaverse devices
• Cooperation with other SDOs, forums, associations (e.g., ETSI Augemted Reality Framework (ARF), Metaverse Standards Forum)