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Instead, read it as I did, with a highlighter in hand. Its rewards are great, and knowledge deep, but I would not recommend reading The Metaverse and How It Will Revolutionize Everything on the beach. Personally, I loved this book and can’t recommend it highly enough. To the general business reader, and many of my students, there is such a thing as too much information.

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These add important detail to Ball’s argument that the metaverse is slowly forming before our eyes, and are full of great stories and history, but it may stymie non-technical readers with jargon, acronyms, and details about things like packet switching. For everyone else, the first and third parts can be read without delving into the much longer Part 2, which concerns networking, computing, virtual world engines (game engines), interoperability, hardware, payment rails and blockchain. “It will take time to figure out exactly what companies should build ‘in the Metaverse,’” he wrote.īall’s book on the Metaverse is a must-read for those in digital media. “Technology frequently produces surprises that no one predicts,” Ball writes in the conclusion, “But the biggest and most fantastical developments sare often anticipated decades in advance.” At the same time, Ball cautions that the hype may have already gotten ahead of itself. Instead, the Metaverse will be browser based and will present itself through devices that we are already using like smartphones, game consoles and PCs. “No part of the Metaverse requires an immersive virtual reality or VR headset,” says Ball. Even though he says in the definition above that The Metaverse requires “an individual sense of presence,” Ball contends games like Fortnite and Call of Duty offer users sufficient presence. Like many others, Ball believes VR will be a secondary device in The Metaverse. (Photo by Rachel Luna/Getty Images) Getty Images Games at The London on Jin West Hollywood, California. WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 12: Tim Sweeny speaks during BAFTA Presents Special Award to Epic. Epic Games’ CEO, Tim Sweeney, who’s been talking about the Metaverse since 2016, is quoted frequently in the book. What matters most is instead how these achievements will enable Epic Games and Fortnite to create something truly revolutionary.” A year after that, Ball wrote a piece specifically on the Metaverse, and then 18 months later, wrote the Metaverse Primer,” which he posted on his Matthewball.vc web site. The sub-header says it all “Much has been said about Fortnite’s revenue, users, business model, origin and availability. It was called “ Fortnite Is the Future, but Probably Not for the Reasons You Think”.

“My first public essay on the Metaverse was written in late 2018.

I was also spending lots of time on the Roblox platform, which demonstrated just how potent and accessible no-code virtual world creation tools had become. “Specifically, I was playing a lot of Fortnite, experiencing its rapid changes week-to-week, as well as its broader transformation from a “game” to a truly cultural product. “It was my experiences in 2018 that convinced me that this nearly century-old idea (and thirty-year old term) was no longer fantastical, but instead a practical opportunity,” Ball told me in an email.

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