Call for Participation in Cybernetic Avatar Community Group
The Cybernetic Avatar Community Group has been launched:
The Cybernetic Avatar Community Group aims to discuss and define technologies, architectures, and data standards for the Cybernetic Avatar — a networked embodiment that digitally extends and transmits human physical, perceptual, and cognitive capabilities on the Web.
A Cybernetic Avatar may appear as a tele-operated robot, a virtual body in an augmented space, or a hybrid embodiment connected to human sensorimotor and cognitive data streams.
The group explores how such embodiment can be realized in browsers and web-based environments to enable inclusive participation in social, creative, and professional activities across distance and time.
The mission is to establish open and interoperable specifications for transmitting and synchronizing multimodal human data — motion, vision, audio, haptics, and cognitive states — between human, avatar, and environments on the Web.
In order to join the group, you will need a W3C account. Please note, however, that W3C Membership is not required to join a Community Group.
This is a community initiative. This group was originally proposed on 2025-10-21 by Daiya Kato. The following people supported its creation: Naomi Yoshizawa, Atsushi Shimono, Takumi Ishihara, Daiya Kato and Masaaki SATO. W3C’s hosting of this group does not imply endorsement of the activities.
The group must now choose a chair. Read more about how to get started in a new group and good practice for running a group.
We invite you to share news of this new group on social media and other channels.
If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires the attention of the W3C staff, please email us at site-comments@w3.org
Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team
