Summary

Creates a Commerce-led advisor and an expert advisory panel to guide how augmented, virtual, and mixed reality are developed and used in the United States. It sets deadlines to stand up the panel, requires regular meetings, and tasks it with recommending standards, privacy safeguards, and ways to work with allies. Directs a two‑year study on immersive technology’s economic and national security impacts, workforce and investment needs, and risks to individual rights. The Secretary of Commerce must send the findings to Congress and publish the report online within 90 days after the study is finished.

Key Points

• Designates a principal advisor on immersive technology within the Department of Commerce.
• Creates an Immersive Technology Advisory Panel with Federal officials and outside experts.
• Panel must be formed within 180 days and meet at least every four months.
• Focus areas include standards, privacy safeguards, economic impacts, and international cooperation.
• Requires a two‑year study of the immersive technology industry’s economic and national security effects.
• The Secretary must deliver the study to Congress and publish it online within 90 days of completion.
• Encourages better coordination among Federal agencies on immersive technology policy.
• Uses defined terms for clarity, including immersive technology categories (AR/VR/MR).

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