Description: Infinite Metaverse Alliance® (IMA) is a Research and Development Philanthropic Foundation with a focus on advancing virtual world and virtual reality technologies.
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Infinite Metaverse Alliance® (IMA) is a for-profit company providing research, development, and philanthropy formed in response to open source community needs for maximizing societal benefits. Our core mission is a focus on inclusive "design thinking" to advance virtual worlds, virtual reality, and synthetic environments. In IMA you have a champion to make the most of virtual worlds to meet your needs and to push the technology to meet the future as it unfolds.
To accomplish the mission , IMA identified significant areas for improved progress: streamline source code development, implement coding standards with a refined architecture framework, help move volunteer open source code projects forward, and facilitate inclusivity so that we all benefit in the use of these technologies. Anyone can be a part of something greater at IMA - we are only limited by our IMAginations.
The team at Laxton Consulting, LLC , with inputs from researchers actively working with virtual worlds, identified the need for one unifying organization to function as a research organization (typically non-profit), a development organization (typically for-profit), and a standards organization (typically a business and academic consortium). IMA's approach is a community-driven effort that functions in all three capacities as a financially transparent Limited Liability Company.