The recently formed Academy of Immersive Arts and Sciences, in partnership with Metaverse Standards Forum, is bringing a special edition of the MetaTr@versal series on interoperability to Infinity Festival Hollywood, November 6-9, from 12:20-1 p.m.

Scaling immersive media to mainstream adoption requires seamless interoperability between tools, platforms, and hardware. For production professionals, this means greater efficiency, flexibility, and reliability across immersive content creation pipelines. Standards are essential in ensuring that production workflows—from pre-visualization to final output—are future-proofed, cost-effective, and adaptable across various industrial and consumer applications. This panel will explore how interoperability drives innovation and excellence in immersive production, addressing the challenges and opportunities for content creators in a rapidly evolving landscape.

MetaTr@versal, co-founded by Ben Erwin, Neil Trevett, and others in 2021, was created to advocate for interoperability. This effort inspired Trevett to establish the Metaverse Standards Forum. The event series has provided a platform for industry leaders to collaborate on advancing the immersive ecosystem. The missions of the Academy and the Forum are aligned on the importance of interoperability. Now an official program of the Academy of Immersive Arts and Sciences, MetaTr@versal will make its Academy debut live and in-person at Infinity Festival, featuring insights from Daisy Leak, VP of studio at LA-based Immersive specialist Magnopus, and Elena Piech, producer at the Brooklyn-based production facility ZeroSpace.