Next Generation Internet

The Merging of Reality and Virtuality in the Metaverse
2025
ISBN: 978-3-658-46423-3
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 437 g

The development of the internet, particularly the World Wide Web, is currently hitting its limits—both technically and socio-culturally, as well as economically. A new internet is promised as a solution, one that aims to overcome the boundaries between the real and the virtual world, merging reality and digitality—the metaverse. Technical, semantic, and organizational details are closely intertwined in this context.

But what does this mean upon closer examination? What technical and technological challenges must be overcome to achieve such a merging? What economic opportunities arise—and which ones may be precluded? How can we ensure that an open and universally accessible metaverse is created? And how can we prevent a few large providers from imposing their proprietary ideas in this new metaverse? This book aims to provide answers to these questions.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hoffmann, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein Soziale und ethische Aspekte der EDV
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion Ambient Intelligence, RFID, Internet der Dinge
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Virtuelle Realität, Erweiterte Realität

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Metaverse?.- Where from. where to. or: what is it anyway?.- The merging of worlds and. verses.- Another dimension: Economic merging.- What cannot be omitted: Critique.- The real vision.- Now is the time to build!.- Addendum 1 - Because it is so current: Artificial Intelligence in the Metaverse?.- Addendum 2 – Almost Even More Current: Is the Hype Already Over?.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Peter Hoffmann, on one hand a professor of business informatics and on the other a passionate Media Computer Scientist, has been exploring for over 20 years the questions of what "digital media" and "virtual worlds" actually are and how users can interact with them.