The Open Metaverse Alliance for Web (OMA3) is creating standards for the metaverse.

OMA3 offers way for users to travel between blockchain gaming worlds in the metaverse

The Open Metaverse Alliance for Web3 announced a project to build standards to enable people to travel through the metaverse.

OMA3, an association based in Zug, Switzerland, announced the Inter-World Portaling System (IWPS) project and published the IWPS position paper to get the project off the ground.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.