Sponsors (2)
The bill seeks to accelerate U.S. leadership, job growth, and coordinated deployment of immersive technologies through federal coordination and recommendations, while raising trade‑offs around increased federal costs, potential market favoritism, and privacy/safety gaps if safeguards and accountability are insufficient.
Tech workers, researchers, and U.S. firms gain clearer federal guidance and investment signals that support job creation, commercialization, and industry leadership in immersive (AR/VR) technologies.
Students, educators, and public-service providers (health, education) stand to benefit from expanded immersive platforms and a sector-wide assessment that targets deployments to improve learning, care, and other services.
Federal agencies and employees will have a centralized advisor and interagency forum to reduce fragmentation, coordinate standards and cybersecurity practices, and streamline policy across departments.
Taxpayers face increased federal costs from creating and staffing an advisor office, panels, a mandated multi-year study, and implementation activities, and resources may be shifted from other programs.
Students, families, and other users could face privacy, civil‑liberties, and safety risks if immersive technologies are adopted or deployed before strong safeguards and regulations are in place.
Centralized guidance, prioritized investment recommendations, or advisor influence could favor particular technologies or firms and bias market outcomes, creating winners and losers among businesses and workers.
Based on analysis of 6 sections of legislative text.
Establishes a Commerce principal advisor and a federal advisory panel to study and recommend U.S. policy on AR/VR/MR, with a 2-year study and public report.
Introduced March 25, 2025 by Suzan K. Delbene · Last progress March 25, 2025
Creates a Commerce Department principal advisor and a multi-agency Immersive Technology Advisory Panel to guide U.S. policy on augmented, virtual, and mixed reality. The panel must be formed within 180 days, include senior federal officials plus 6–10 outside experts, meet regularly, and complete a comprehensive two-year study on economic, security, standards, workforce, and privacy issues, with findings reported to Congress and published online.