The Metaverse: A Critical Introduction

Burden, David, Savin-Baden, Maggi

The Metaverse: A Critical Introduction
  • 出版商: CRC
  • 出版日期: 2024-09-24
  • 售價: $2,000
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,900
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 220
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 1032497882
  • ISBN-13: 9781032497884

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商品描述

The Metaverse: A Critical Introduction provides a clear, concise and well-grounded introduction to the concept of the Metaverse, its history, the technology, the opportunities, the challenges and how it is having an impact almost every facet of society. The book serves as a standalone introduction to the Metaverse, and as an introduction to the range of topics that will be covered by the specialist volumes in The Metaverse Series.

Key Features:

- a concise history of the Metaverse idea and related implementations to date;

- an examination of what the Metaverse actually is;

- an introduction to the fundamental technologies used in the Metaverse;

- an overview of how the different uses and aspects of the Metaverse are having an impact on our lives across multiple disciplines and social contexts;

- a consideration of the opportunities and challenges the evolving Metaverse; and

- a sense of how the Metaverse may mature over the coming decades.

This book is a primer and Metaverse reader, drawing on academic research, practical and commercial experiences and taking inspiration from the science fiction origins and treatments of the Metaverse. The book explores the use of the increasing number of virtual worlds and proto-Metaverses which have existed since the late 1990s, and includes a critical consideration of recent developments in crypto-worlds and mixed reality. The aim is to provide professional and lay readers, researchers, academics and students with an indispensable guide to what counts as the Metaverse, opportunities and challenges, and how the future of the coming Metaverse can best be guided.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

《元宇宙：批判性導論》提供了一個清晰、簡潔且扎實的元宇宙概念介紹，包括其歷史、技術、機會、挑戰，以及它如何影響社會的幾乎每一個面向。本書作為元宇宙的獨立導論，同時也是《元宇宙系列》中專業卷將涵蓋的各種主題的介紹。

主要特色：
- 元宇宙理念及相關實現的簡要歷史；
- 對元宇宙實際意義的探討；
- 元宇宙中使用的基本技術介紹；
- 概述元宇宙的不同用途和面向如何在多個學科和社會背景中影響我們的生活；
- 對不斷演變的元宇宙所帶來的機會和挑戰的考量；
- 對元宇宙在未來幾十年可能成熟的情況的理解。

本書是一本元宇宙入門書，結合了學術研究、實務和商業經驗，並從科幻作品中汲取靈感，探討自1990年代末以來存在的越來越多的虛擬世界和原型元宇宙，並對近期在加密世界和混合現實中的發展進行批判性考量。其目的是為專業和非專業讀者、研究者、學者及學生提供一個不可或缺的指南，幫助他們理解什麼算是元宇宙、機會與挑戰，以及如何最佳引導未來的元宇宙。

作者簡介

David Burden created his first virtual world in 1996 and has spent most of the time since working in virtual spaces and with virtual humans for a variety of clients through his company Daden Limited. His first presentation on the Metaverse was in 2008. David and Maggi co-wrote the book Virtual Humans for Routledge in 2019, and also worked together on the book Digital Afterlife in 2020.

Maggi Savin-Baden is a research Professor at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford. She has researched and evaluated staff and student experience of learning for over 20 years and has a strong publication record of over 70 research publications and has completed 25 books. Her research and writing reflect her interests on the impact of innovative learning, digital fluency, digital afterlife and the postdigital and she has worked with David on a number of research projects since 2008.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

大衛·伯登（David Burden）在1996年創建了他的第一個虛擬世界，並自那時以來大部分時間都在虛擬空間和虛擬人類方面為各種客戶工作，這些工作是通過他的公司Daden Limited進行的。他在2008年首次就元宇宙（Metaverse）進行了演講。大衛和瑪吉（Maggi）於2019年共同撰寫了《虛擬人類》（Virtual Humans）一書，並在2020年共同合作撰寫了《數位後生命》（Digital Afterlife）。

瑪吉·薩文-巴登（Maggi Savin-Baden）是牛津大學布萊克弗賴爾學院的研究教授。她在過去20多年中研究和評估了教職員和學生的學習體驗，並擁有超過70篇研究出版物的豐富發表紀錄，完成了25本書。她的研究和寫作反映了她對創新學習、數位流暢性、數位後生命及後數位時代影響的興趣，自2008年以來，她與大衛合作了多個研究項目。

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