1Chapter 1. The Metaverse: What It is, Where to Find It, and Who Will Build It
84Experiences and Circumstances
21.1 What’s The “Metaverse”?
859.4 Summary
31.2 Why Does The Metaverse Matter?
869.5 Questions
41.3 Building The Metaverse
87Chapter 10. The metaverse as a strategic inflection point
51.4 Who Else Can Build The Metaverse?
8810.1 Introduction
61.5 Others
8910.2 Google’s metaverse: Glasses
71.6 Summary
9010.3 VR’s Achilles heel
81.7 Questions
9110.4 Mixed reality: The bridge until fully-
9Chapter 2. The Open Metaverse OS
92fledged AR arrives
102.1 Introduction
9310.5 Microsoft HoloLens 2: the simplest
112.2 Defining the Metaverse
94immersive MR experience thus far
122.3 Competing Multiverses
9510.6 Apple: The metaverse antagonist
132.4 Web 3, a stack for an Open Metaverse
9610.7 The one metaverse versus many
142.5 The Web 3 Toolbox
97meta-verses debate
152.6 Web 3 is built upon foundational elements
9810.8 The virtual natives are coming: Epic, Unity,
162.7 Building within the Metaverse
99and Roblox
172.8 The Open Metaverse OS
10010.9 The metaverse’s enterprise killer apps:
182.9 An Openness Framework
101collaboration and simulation
192.10 So why incorporate the Open Metaverse?
10210.10 Summary
202.11 The empty World Problem
10310.11 Questions
212.12 Humanity’s greatest economic experiment
104Chapter 11. Into the Metaverse: Xverse creates an open blockchain platform for real-time metaverse and digital-twin
222.13 Top-down
10511.1 Introduction
232.14 Summary
10611.2 Metaverse Market Environment
242.15 Questions
10711.2 Why should we concentrate on ‘Metaverse’
25Chapter 3. Virtual Products & NFTs in The Metaverse
108now?
263.1 Virtual Products in Metaverse
10911.3 Xverse World
273.2 NFTS in Metaverse
11011.4 Xverse Studio
283.3 Summary
11111.5 XBlock - Xverse Blockchain
293.4 Questions
11211.6 Xverse World Content
30Chapter 4. Architecting The Metaverse
11311.7 Xverse World Hardware Tools
314.1 Introduction
11411.8 Xverse World Software Development Tools
324.2 Who Will Build the Metaverse?
11511.9 Coin Economy in Xverse World
334.3 Why It Matters For Architects?
11611.10 Xverse World uses one blockchain token
344.4 How to Extend the design Frontier to the
117concept: Xverse Coin (XVC).
35Digital World?
11811.11 Summary
364.5 Summary
11911.12 Questions
374.6 Questions
120Chapter 12. How the metaverse, blockchain, and NFTs are radically changing entertainment
38Chapter 5. Expert consensus on the Metaverse In Medicine
12112.1 Introduction
395.1 Introduction
12212.2 Virtual currencies
405.2 The concept of a metaverse and its possible
12312.3 Gaming
41applications in medicine
12412.4 NFTs
425.3 The medical Internet of Things (MIoT)
12512.5 Decentralization
43facilitates important application scenarios
12612.6 How Tech’s Hottest Trend Will Impact The
44for the metaverse
127Entertainment Industry
455.4 The metaverse provides technical support
12812.7 Summary
46to maximize the worth of the MIoT
12912.8 Questions
475.5. Prospects
130Chapter 13. Crypto, web3, and the Metaverse
485.6 Summary
13113.1 Introduction
495.7 Questions
13213.2 What Is Web 3.0 & Why It Matters?
50Chapter 6. Metaverse in The Real Estate
13313.3 The Metaverse
516.1 Introduction
13413.4 Web 3.0 and therefore the Metaverse — the
526.2 How the Metaverse is Transforming real
135future
53estate
13613.5 Summary
546.3 Metaverse can assist you in holding
13713.6 Questions
55conferences and visiting the virtual world.
138Chapter 14. From Reality to Virtuality: Re-discussing Cities with the Concept of the Metaverse
56Interest in metaverse land skyrocketed
13914.1 Introduction
576.4 The Sandbox
14014.2 Extended Reality
586.5 Digital Assets
14114.3 Augmented Reality
596.6 Price Analysis
14214.4 Virtual reality
606.7 Summary
14314.5 Mixed Reality
616.8 Questions
14414.6 Different application Areas Of Metaverse
62Chapter 7. Blockchain and other Disruptive Technologies Shaping the Metaverse
145within the city
637.1 Introduction
14614.7 Summary
647.2. Virtual world and desire for creation
14714.8 Questions
657.3. Data trust in the virtual world
148Chapter 15. The Metaverse as Virtual Heterotopia
667.4. Blockchain-based Metaverse
14915.1 Introduction
677.5. Complementary points of Blockchain and AI
15015.2. Discussion
687.6. Blockchain and AI encounter within the
15115.1. Introduction: Michel Foucault’s Heterotopias
69Metaverse
15215.2. Experimentation: Virtual Reality, Realism,
707.7 Why is the metaverse a trending topic
153And Provocation
71recently?
15415.3. Analysis: Ancient Abbey, Actual Ruins, And
727.8 Summary
155Virtual Reality
737.9 Questions
15615.4. Conclusion: Toward New Tools For
74Chapter 8. Building the Metaverse: ‘Crypto States’ and Corporates Compete, Down to the Hardware
157Foucault’s Heterotopology?
758.1 Introduction
15815.3 Summary
768.2 Linking Digital And Physical
15915.4 Question
778.3 Summary
160Chapter 16. Case Study: The State of Fashion 2022
788.4 Questions
16116.2 Regaining Lost Ground Whilst Bracing for
79Chapter 9. Fantasy or the Future? An Investment Perspective on the Metaverse
162Aftershocks
809.1 Introduction
16316.3 Global Economy
819.2 Demystifying the Buzzword – the What and
16416.4 Summary
82the Why?
16516.5 Questions
839.3 The Bottom Line: Humans Seek Enhanced
166Glossary
