Overview
- Offers a panoramic view of the metaverse
- Presents intuitive visualisations for knowledge presentation
- Readers will find it quick and easy to follow all the key points
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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About this book
The metaverse, a hybrid society of the real and the virtual is attracting significant attention from academia to industry and is starting to change the world. Composed of ten chapters, this book introduces the metaverse from three aspects – concept, content and context. It starts with numerous concepts related to the metaverse, such as virtual reality, augmented reality, Web 3.0 and NFTs and describes the background, features, advantages and disadvantages. It then presents the content or key techniques around the metaverse, Artificial Intelligence, big data, edge computing, 3D modeling and blockchain. For each technique, it depicts how it performs to advance the development of the metaverse. Finally, it gives the context of the metaverse and illustrates the new society in the virtual world, consisting of economic systems, assets, social activities, security, law, etcetera.
Overall, Metaverse: Concept, Content and Context provides a panoramic view of the metaverse, a key feature of which is the intuitive visualizations with numerous figures that clearly address the main aspects. This book is well-designed and well-written and will appeal to beginners and students as well as professionals, welcome to the metaverse community!
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Shenghui Cheng is a WestLake fellow and the director of the Intelligent Visualization Lab, WestLake University, China. He obtained a Ph.D. in computer science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (Stony Brook University), and conducted research at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Harvard Medical School, US. He also served as a consultant for the World Bank, a mentor of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Global Executive Leadership Program, the executive chairman of the CSIG-VIS Big Data Summit Forum, the program committee member of the IEEE VIS, IEEE Pacific Vis, and Chinavis etc. He was selected as a high-level overseas talent in Shenzhen and leadship program in university of Zhejiang Province, China.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Metaverse: Concept, Content and Context
Authors: Shenghui Cheng
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24359-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-24358-5Published: 23 June 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-24361-5Due: 24 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-24359-2Published: 22 June 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 218
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Computer Graphics, Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics, Professional Computing, Artificial Intelligence