Basic Metaverse: How Virtual Worlds Will Change Our Reality and What You Can Do to Unlock Their Potential

By: David Shrier

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Synopsis: What is the metaverse? Quite simply, it's a digital platform to help people collaborate, work and play in new ways, in an immersive 3D environment. In Basic Metaverse, leading futurist David L. Shrier explains how the technology works, unpacks its potential uses - including its relationship to the development of Web3 - and its impact on everyday life and work. He explores some of the legal and moral quandaries that could accompany widespread adoption of this transformational technology, from issues of wealth disparity and access to what happens if your virtual avatar commits a crime in the metaverse.The metaverse future is full of possibility. One thing we can be certain of is that it will be stranger than we can imagine. Join Shrier as he journeys across virtual worlds in search of understanding.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781472148131
Related ISBNs:: 9781472148148
Publisher:: Little, Brown Book Group Limited
Date of Addition:: 06/07/23
Copyrighted By:: Visionary Future LLC
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Computers and Internet, Technology, Social Studies, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.