The Metaverse Handbook : innovating for the Internet's next tectonic shift

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents at a Glance -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 A Vision for the Metaverse in 2032 -- Extended Reality Emerges -- Your Own Personalized Metaverse -- The Rise of Bots and Digital Humans -- The Ubiquitous Metaverse -- Chapter 2 What Is the Metaverse? -- From Snow Crash to Meta -- Defining the Metaverse -- The Metaverse Represents the Next Digital Shifts -- Changes to Digital Identity -- Changes to Digital Value -- Digital Respect and Signaling Identity -- Access to Exclusive Internet Experiences -- Crowdfunding 2.0 -- Changes to Internet Immersion -- It Starts with Web3 Communities -- What's the Metaverse's Interface? -- Preparing for the Metaverse -- Chapter 3 Why You Should Care About the Metaverse Now -- The Well-Timed Interest Geek -- Interest Geeks of the Metaverse -- Interest Geeks Over Power Brokers -- Chapter 4 History of the Metaverse -- La Réalité Virtuelle -- The Early Internet -- Early Virtual Worlds -- Blockchain and Digital Assets -- The Modern Metaverse -- Chapter 5 The Metaverse Building Blocks -- The Main Metaverse Tools -- The Secondary Metaverse Tools -- Building Your First Metaverse Asset -- Chapter 6 Enter the Metaverse -- Sandbox Metaverses -- Decentraland -- The Sandbox -- Cryptovoxels -- Somnium Space -- Honorable Mentions -- Gaming Metaverses -- Miscellaneous Metaverses -- Digital Presence -- Phygital Commerce -- Readymade Metaverse Environments -- Social VR Worlds -- The Mass Migration to the Metaverse -- Chapter 7 Metaverse Assets -- What We Will Own in the Metaverse -- Avatars -- Accessories -- Objects -- Real Estate -- Metaverse Asset Management -- Chapter 8 Challenges of the Metaverse -- Interoperable Economies -- Interoperable Graphics and Hardware -- The Negative Narratives of the Metaverse -- Chapter 9 Your Metaverse Plan.