VentureBeat July 23, 2024
Matthew Ball estimated that 70% of the second edition of his book The Metaverse: Building the Spatial Internet is brand new. That’s a pretty big overhaul for the title, but you have to agree that the metaverse went through an amazing hype and crash cycle in the last two years since the first book came out.
Ball has been a leading thinker on the metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, like in novels such as Snow Crash and Ready Player One. Ball’s writings were a kind of bible for the metaverse, as the book became an international bestseller.
The first book was written with lots of detail and an elevated view of what it all meant....