Venturebeat: Achieving Material Interoperability: Advancing Realistic Visual and Physical Representation in the Metaverse

In the pursuit of creating a seamless metaverse experience, the 3D industry and industrial designers are working towards achieving material interoperability across tools and platforms. This endeavor aims to enable accurate virtual representations of materials, such as cloth, upholstery, paint, and more, to be rendered consistently across various 3D design tools and virtual worlds. The challenges of representing materials involve capturing both their physical appearance under different lighting conditions and their physical properties, like drape, texture, and resistance to various forces. As the industry explores various file formats and standards to achieve material interoperability, collaborations between technology providers, designers, and manufacturers are emerging to create a more unified and realistic metaverse experience..

Explore how the 3D industry is addressing the challenges of material representation in the metaverse and working towards achieving material interoperability across different tools and platforms. The collaboration between technology providers, designers, and manufacturers aims to enhance the realism and immersion of virtual worlds, while also enabling new use cases such as commerce within the metaverse.