Metaverse: Concept, Content and Context

Cheng, Shenghui

Metaverse: Concept, Content and Context
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2024-07-10
  • 售價: $2,470
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $2,347
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 218
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 3031243617
  • ISBN-13: 9783031243615

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商品描述

The metaverse, a hybrid society of the real and the virtual is attracting significant attention from academia to industry and is starting to change the world. Composed of ten chapters, this book introduces the metaverse from three aspects - concept, content and context. It starts with numerous concepts related to the metaverse, such as virtual reality, augmented reality, Web 3.0 and NFTs and describes the background, features, advantages and disadvantages. It then presents the content or key techniques around the metaverse, Artificial Intelligence, big data, edge computing, 3D modeling and blockchain. For each technique, it depicts how it performs to advance the development of the metaverse. Finally, it gives the context of the metaverse and illustrates the new society in the virtual world, consisting of economic systems, assets, social activities, security, law, etcetera.

Overall, Metaverse: Concept, Content and Context provides a panoramic view of the metaverse, a key feature of which is the intuitive visualizations with numerous figures that clearly address the main aspects. This book is well-designed and well-written and will appeal to beginners and students as well as professionals, welcome to the metaverse community!


商品描述(中文翻譯)

元宇宙，這個真實與虛擬的混合社會，正吸引著學術界和產業界的重大關注，並開始改變世界。本書由十個章節組成，從概念、內容和背景三個方面介紹元宇宙。首先，書中探討了與元宇宙相關的眾多概念，如虛擬實境、擴增實境、Web 3.0 和 NFT，並描述了其背景、特徵、優勢和劣勢。接著，書中介紹了圍繞元宇宙的內容或關鍵技術，包括人工智慧、大數據、邊緣計算、3D 建模和區塊鏈。對於每項技術，書中描繪了其如何推進元宇宙的發展。最後，書中提供了元宇宙的背景，並闡述了虛擬世界中新社會的構成，包括經濟系統、資產、社會活動、安全、法律等。

總體而言，《Metaverse: Concept, Content and Context》提供了元宇宙的全景視角，其一大特點是直觀的視覺化，配有眾多圖表，清晰地呈現主要方面。本書設計精良、文筆流暢，將吸引初學者和學生以及專業人士，歡迎加入元宇宙社群！

作者簡介

Dr. Shenghui Cheng is a WestLake fellow and the director of the Intelligent Visualization Lab, WestLake University, China. He obtained a Ph.D. in computer science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (Stony Brook University), and conducted research at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Harvard Medical School, US. He also served as a consultant for the World Bank, a mentor of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Global Executive Leadership Program, the executive chairman of the CSIG-VIS Big Data Summit Forum, the program committee member of the IEEE VIS, IEEE Pacific Vis, and Chinavis etc. He was selected as a high-level overseas talent in Shenzhen and leadship program in university of Zhejiang Province, China.


作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Dr. Shenghui Cheng 是中國西湖大學的西湖研究員及智能視覺化實驗室主任。他在紐約州立大學石溪分校獲得計算機科學博士學位，並曾在美國布魯克海文國家實驗室和哈佛醫學院進行研究。他還擔任世界銀行顧問、斯坦福人工智慧全球高層領導計畫的導師、CSIG-VIS 大數據峰會論壇的執行主席，以及 IEEE VIS、IEEE Pacific Vis 和 Chinavis 等會議的程序委員會成員。他被選為深圳的高層次海外人才，並參加浙江省的領導力計畫。

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