TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ball,Matthew
TI  - The Metaverse: and how it will revolutionize everything 
SN  - 1324092033
AV  - TK5105.8864 .B35 2022
U1  - 303.48/34 23/eng/20220630
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
KW  - Computers and civilization
KW  - Human-computer interaction
KW  - Internet
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Shared virtual environments
KW  - Virtual reality
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; What is the Metaverse? ; A brief history of the future ; Confusion and uncertainty ; A definition (finally) ; The next internet -- Building the Metaverse: Networking ; Computing ; Virtual world engines ; Interoperability ; Hardware ; Payment rails ; Blockchains -- How the Metaverse will revolutionize everything: When will the Metaverse arrive? ; Meta-business ; Metaverse winners and losers ; Metaversal existence
N2  - "From the leading theorist of the Metaverse comes the definitive account of the next internet: what the Metaverse is, what it will take to build it, and what it means for all of us"--
ER  -