# A Survey of Extended Reality (XR) Standards ## Overview **Authors:** Gillian Makamara, Martin Adolph **Publication Date:** 2 January 2023 **Link:** **Keywords:** Augmented reality (AR), extended reality (XR), metaverse, SDO, specification, standard, standardization, survey, virtual reality (VR) **Type:** Peer-Reviewed Journals/White Papers ## Summary This paper surveys completed and ongoing work of Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs), fora and consortia dealing with technical aspects of extended Reality (XR). In line with the XR definition introduced by \[1], specifications considered here address environments containing real or virtual components or a combination thereof, i.e. standards dealing with, inter alia, Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and metaverse. While aiming to be comprehensive, this survey can only provide a snapshot of the standards landscape taken at the time of submission of the manuscript. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://library.xrguild.org/ethical-responsibility/a-survey-of-extended-reality-xr-standards.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.