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This book is your guide to effectively using online event platforms and tools. Written by three seasoned virtual event experts, The Virtual Events Playbook will guide you in becoming an expert presenter, meeting leader/facilitator, or trainer.

You've probably heard that the metaverse—a word that seemingly went from nonexistent to everywhere—is the next big thing in technology. What is it? Written by a leading futurist, Metaverse For Dummies unravels the mysteries of the metaverse, for the curious and for anyone looking to get in on the ground floor. Discover how to carve out your niche in the metaverse with easy-to-understand breakdowns of the major technologies and platforms, a guide to doing business in the metaverse, and explorations of what meta means for sports, education, and just about every other area of life.

Technology can now control the spiritual experience. This is a journey through the high-tech aids for psychological growth that are changing our world, while exploring the safety, authenticity, and ethics of this new world. We already rely on technology to manage our health, sleep, relationships, and finances, so it’s no surprise that we’re turning to technological aids for the spiritual journey.

The celebrated author of The Making of Second Life and Game Design Secrets Wagner, James Au, delivers an engrossing exploration of how nascent metaverse platforms have already captured the imagination of millions. Featuring powerful stories and dozens of incisive interviews with insiders including Metaverse creator Neal Stephenson himself, the author uses his unique, grassroots-level perspective as the first reporter embedded in a metaverse platform.

Welcome to Apex City, formerly Bangalore, where everything is decided by the mathematically perfect Bell Curve. With the right image, values, and opinions, you can ascend to the glittering heights of the Twenty Percent—the Virtual elite—and have the world at your feet. Otherwise you risk falling to the precarious Ten Percent, and deportation to the ranks of the Analogs, with no access to electricity, running water, or even humanity. The system has no flaws. Until the elusive "Ten Percent Thief" steals a single jacaranda seed from the Virtual city.

Curious about the metaverse, but can't quite wrap your head around it? Maybe you want to get a headstart, but don't know where to begin? In this practical primer, you will learn why and how we should prepare for a new digital renaissance, and what it means in terms of job opportunities, investments, and new business models.

Extended reality (XR for short) - which encompasses virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality - is one of the biggest business trends of today. It refers to the use of technology to create more immersive digital experiences that are promising to transform many businesses and industries. In this book, best-selling author, strategic business advisor, and respected futurist Bernard Marr explains the role of XR in providing innovative businesses solutions for companies of varying sizes and across different industries.

We're living through what is arguably one of the most exciting, confusing, and powerful social moments in the history of humanity, the shift from the Digital Age to the Virtual Age. This shift is being driven by technology, and the people who are leading it are the ones who know it best: the Virtual Natives. This book will introduce you to the Virtual Native cohort and mindset, decipher their socio-cultural and economic experiences, and unpack their expectations of companies looking to engage, market, or employ them.

As the metaverse develops, conversations around the topic have been cluttered and opaque. What is the metaverse? Why is the metaverse important? And what will the metaverse look like? The Metaverse: A Professional Guide sorts the sense from the nonsense, giving experts insights and guidance on how to navigate the burgeoning world of immersive technologies. By the end, you will have a firm grasp of the metaverse and all the contingent technologies that link to its foundations.

In Step into the Metaverse, Dr. Mark van Rijmenam delivers a startlingly insightful discussion about how the world as we know it will fundamentally change as the physical and the digital worlds merge into the metaverse, impacting the everyday experiences of people, companies, and societies. The author maps out the extraordinary opportunities and challenges facing business leaders, consumers, regulators, policymakers, and other metaverse stakeholders trying to navigate the future of the Internet.

A partir de nueve casos reales ocurridos en la Argentina, Sebastián Davidovsky, periodista especializado en tecnología, explica delitos como grooming, hackeo, phishing y ransomware. Cada caso sirve para conocer cómo operan los criminales, cómo funcionan las estafas y cómo estar prevenidos para evitarlas.

Virtual reality is able to effectively blur the line between reality and illusion, pushing the limits of our imagination and granting us access to any experience imaginable. With well-crafted simulations, these experiences, which are so immersive that the brain believes they're real, are already widely available with a VR headset and will only become more accessible and commonplace. But how does this new medium affect its users, and does it have a future beyond fantasy and escapism? In Experience on Demand, Jeremy Bailenson draws on two decades spent researching the psychological effects of VR and other mass media to help listeners understand this powerful new tool.

In Virtual Breadwinner I take you step-by-step through the process of starting, building, and maintaining your own virtual real estate business - even if you have no previous experience! Virtual Breadwinner is packed with so much powerful information that I split it into three distinct versions: Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced.

Wer sich in den letzten Monaten mit Amazon und den hauseigenen Geräten befasst hat, der wird unweigerlich auf die Echo Produkte gestoßen sein. Schlussendlich dreht sich seit geraumer Zeit alles um Alexa, die digitale Sprachassistentin, die zeitgleich auch zur größten Konkurrentin Siris wurde. Doch wer ist Alexa? Was hat es mit den Echo Geräten auf sich? Geht es hier nur um Unterhaltung oder gibt es mitunter einen tieferen Sinn?

What's wrong with preferring domestic assistants with feminine personalities? We like our assistants to conform to gender stereotypes - so what? For one thing, Strengers and Kennedy remind us, the design of gendered devices reinscribes outdated and unfounded stereotypes. Strengers and Kennedy offer a Smart Wife "manifesta", proposing a rebooted Smart Wife that would promote a revaluing of femininity in society in all her glorious diversity.

Are you one of many people who are curious and even excited about the metaverse and its possibilities? Have you been hearing about NFTs, cryptocurrencies, and the metaverse, and wondering what all of this means for you? Do you want to learn more about the technologies that power the metaverse, but feel overwhelmed with all the information being thrown at you? Don’t worry, I’ve got you covered. This book will demystify certain aspects of the metaverse, as well as the technologies and developments that form the basis of this new and exciting world.

Casi de la noche a la mañana, los deportes electrónicos y los videojuegos competitivos se han convertido en el mayor fenómeno deportivo y de entretenimiento en la historia de la humanidad; un acontecimiento social y económico del que todos quieren formar parte: marcas, anunciantes, empresas y jugadores.¿Qué son los deportes electrónicos y cómo se hicieron tan populares tan rápidamente? ¿Por qué triunfan los videojuegos como Fornite, Call of Duty o League of Legends?

The most up-to-date content available on metaverse and NFT. Do you want to discover the metaverses and how to make money with them? Are you afraid of missing another mega opportunity like Bitcoin or investing in Amazon? Do you want to change your destiny by having a new chance in the virtual world? If you answered “Yes!” to any of these questions, then this is the bible for you! You'll be surprised to discover that you don't need computer skills or years of study to understand this new world and become its visionaries!

Jerrell Hawkins has a plan. He’s going to marry Nadine Hartwell, study magic at University, and serve his kingdom in the ongoing war in the prestigious Orichalcum Company led by the hero of the realm. To do this, he needs to obtain a Class. When his plan to create a new, powerful spellcasting class fails, he fears all is lost. Then an enemy sleeper agent burns down his world and Nadine is infected with lycanthropy.

Virtual Distance - the measurable disconnect that arises when we rely on digitally mediated communication - applies to all of us. In the second edition of The Power of Virtual Distance, Karen Sobel Lojeski and Richard R. Reilly showcase 15 years of data to describe their powerful framework for predicting everything from trust, employee engagement, and job satisfaction to bottom-line results.