# Who will govern the metaverse? Examining governance initiatives for extended reality (XR) technologi ## Overview **Authors:** Ben Egliston, Marcus Carter, Kate Euphemia Clark **Publication Date:** 29 January 2024 **Link:** **Keywords:** Extended reality, governance, mixed reality, policy, regulation, virtual reality **Type:** Articles/Reports ## Summary This article reports on a content analysis of calls to govern XR, published between March 2020 and May 2023 (n = 181), aiming to understand who is calling for XR governance, what is being governed and why. Findings reveal that XR governance was advanced by government, civil society and industrial stakeholders, and was scoped around four major issues (‘privacy’, ‘safety, equity and inclusion’, ‘competition’, and ‘commercialisation’). Governance solutions to emerging XR technologies included a reliance on currently existing laws and regulations, and predominantly, a more anticipatory set of approaches (largely scoped around industrial self-governance, education and best practice) focusing on the media-specific harms and affordances of XR. --- # 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/who-will-govern-the-metaverse-examining-governance-initiatives-for-extended-reality-xr-technologi.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.