Ian Khan - Metaverse for Dummies

Metaverse For Dummies

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ISBN 978-1-119-93387-8 (pbk); ISBN 978-1-119-93388-5 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-119-93389-2 (ebk)

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2. Chapter 4
3. Chapter 6
4. Chapter 7
5. Chapter 11
6. Chapter 18

Metaverse For Dummies shows how the metaverse functions as just one part of a rapidly growing digital economy.

Thanks to the availability of the Internet, the emergence and consumption of new ideas and technologies take very little time. Take a minute and think about the early days of the Internet. It took at least a decade before the World Wide Web, as we know it, was being used commercially across the world.

Now consider the release and growth of smartphones, starting from the iPhone and others. Smartphones grew exponentially and, within a span of fewer than five years, were being used widely across the world.

The metaverse is now emerging and developing in an already developed marketplace where the essential building blocks are already available. These include high-speed microprocessors and memory, breakneck Internet speeds, high-definition graphics, and others. In this era, the metaverse is likely to develop much faster than we saw other technologies grow.

World-renowned futurist and pioneer Alvin Toffler said that Technology feeds on itself, meaning that technologies give rise to other technologies, and at a faster pace. This is true for any innovative solution that emerges today and is accepted by the masses. The metaverse is such a thing.

This book is your guide to cool places to explore the metaverse, early metaverse successes, and emerging metaverse platforms from what it is to what it can do to where it can go.

A countless number of my friends and acquaintances have been excited to see this book released. There is a lot of excitement about the first such reference manual being written about a complex and emerging technology that is impacting millions of people right now.

One thing I can guarantee as the author is that the metaverse domain will continue to change and meander through the needs of the era we live in. More investments into developing the metaverse will likely happen, more jobs will be created into niche faculties of the metaverse, new career paths for eager technology professionals will emerge in the metaverse and related industries, and more value creation through the metaverse is at the horizon of this exciting era. You, as a reader, are part of this exciting era, and I look forward to taking you on an insider journey to the metaverse through this book.

This book covers the essentials and beyond to get you up to speed with the metaverse. Throughout Metaverse For Dummies, I describe how people are putting the metaverse to use in their personal and professional lives. I also describe what the future may hold for how individuals and businesses use this highly emerging technology.

Here are some advantages of find out about the metaverse from Metaverse For Dummies:

• This book massively simplifies concepts that are usually complex.
• Ive written in an easy-to-understand way, with careful focus on keeping things simple.
• The book covers many areas of the metaverse and, as such, forms a great comprehensive reference.
• This book covers the personal and business side of the metaverse.

This book is an ideal starting point to see how you can get the most from your metaverse experience. The metaverse is changing daily, and new information, vendors, and platforms are constantly emerging. Staying on top of the metaverse means reading and learning constantly.

Within this book, you may note that some web addresses break across two lines of text. If youre reading this book in print and want to visit one of these web pages, simply key in the web address exactly as its noted in the text, pretending as though the line break doesnt exist. If youre reading this as an e-book, youve got it easy just click the web address to be taken directly to the web page.