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Official title: To establish the Immersive Technology Advisory Panel to promote the use of immersive technology in the United States, and for other purposes.
Introduced March 25, 2025 by Suzan K. Delbene · Last progress March 25, 2025
The bill centralizes federal coordination to accelerate U.S. leadership, commercialization, and public-service uses of immersive technologies, but it raises taxpayer costs, privacy and safety risks, and the possibility of market favoritism or geopolitical side effects.
Tech workers, companies, and researchers get clearer, coordinated federal guidance and support that can spur job creation, commercialization, and U.S. leadership in immersive (AR/VR) technology.
Students and educators gain expanded immersive platforms and tools that enable new modes of learning and communication.
Policymakers and national security stakeholders receive prioritized recommendations and centralized attention that could strengthen cybersecurity and U.S. economic competitiveness in immersive technology.
Taxpayers may face new and recurring federal costs to staff an advisor, panels, studies, and implementation of recommendations.
Privacy, civil liberties, and consumer protections could be weakened or uneven if commercialization is prioritized, recommendations favor industry, or standards remain voluntary, raising risks of data misuse and surveillance.
Centralized guidance or an advisor could skew markets toward particular technologies or firms, creating winners and losers and disadvantaging some small businesses or competitors.
Based on analysis of 6 sections of legislative text.
Creates a Commerce‑led principal advisor and an interagency advisory panel to study immersive tech and report findings and recommendations to Congress within two years.
Creates a federal advisory structure to study and advise on augmented, virtual, and mixed reality (collectively "immersive technology"). It directs the Secretary of Commerce to designate a principal advisor, establish an interagency Immersive Technology Advisory Panel made up of senior agency officials and 6–10 outside experts, and require the panel to complete a comprehensive two-year study on economic, workforce, security, standards, privacy, and commercialization issues and to report findings and recommendations to Congress and publish them publicly.