{"id":43483,"date":"2025-10-23T17:54:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T15:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/?p=43483"},"modified":"2025-10-27T08:49:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:49:01","slug":"new-report-explores-eu-regulations-shaping-the-future-of-virtual-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/subject\/ar-vr\/xr\/new-report-explores-eu-regulations-shaping-the-future-of-virtual-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"EU regulations shaping the future of virtual worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A recent report titled <strong>\u201cAnalysis of EU Regulations and Acts and Their Impacts on Virtual Worlds\u201d<\/strong> has been released as part of the <strong>ViWISSO (Virtual Worlds Interoperability \u2013 Standardisation Support Office)<\/strong> initiative under <strong>ETSI STF 686<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report examines <strong>11 major EU regulations<\/strong>\u2014including the AI Act, Digital Markets Act, GDPR, and eIDAS 2.0\u2014assessing how they influence the development of <strong>immersive, interoperable virtual worlds<\/strong> in Europe. It highlights both opportunities for innovation, trust and safety, and challenges such as overregulation or outdated policy assumptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The authors also offer <strong>recommendations for standardisation<\/strong>, emphasising <em>privacy-by-design<\/em>, <em>open interoperability<\/em> and <em>global coordination<\/em>\u2014key values underpinning Europe\u2019s emerging <strong>Web 4.0 strategy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This contribution aims to spark dialogue among policymakers, technologists and educators on how <strong>policy, technology, and ethics<\/strong> can evolve together to support a <strong>human-centred European Metaverse<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udcd8 <em>Read the full report<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdc-fellbach.de\/fileadmin\/user_upload\/Legal_Frameworks_and_Laws_and_their_impacts_on_Virtual_Worlds_Report_v04.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent report titled \u201cAnalysis of EU Regulations and Acts and Their Impacts on Virtual Worlds\u201d has been released as part of the ViWISSO (Virtual Worlds Interoperability \u2013 Standardisation Support Office) initiative under ETSI STF 686. The report examines 11 major EU regulations\u2014including the AI Act, Digital Markets Act, GDPR, and eIDAS 2.0\u2014assessing how they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":43484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-xr"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2025\/10\/virtual-reality-regulations-EU.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Shirin Izadpanah","author_link":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/author\/shirin-izadpanah\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43483"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43623,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43483\/revisions\/43623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}