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Understand the coming metaverse—and discover how to look past the hype and harness the future of technology. Metaversed is an insightful discussion and analysis of the next, rapidly approaching technological revolution. The authors deliver a compelling new exploration of how the metaverse and emerging technologies combine to define our collective future. In addition to identifying the business opportunities, the book pulls back the curtain on major safety and privacy issues that will arise and the expected shifts in both our private and social spheres. In the book, you'll understand: How multiple industries will be changed and challenged in a 3D spatial world and how to navigate the future...
ROADMAPPING EXTENDED REALITY This book offers a comprehensive overview of the technological aspects of Extended Realities (XR) and discusses the main challenges and future directions in the field. This book is important and timely – XR technologies have overcome the 3 main aspects that were holding it back from mainstream adoption: cost, cables, and size. However, there are many aspects of XR technologies that are now going to be explored and developed that still need urgent research in terms of security, privacy, health and safety, long-term effects, addiction risks, and age-related developmental concerns, and the aim of the book is to inform all readers of these open issues and challenge...
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A Editora Contracorrente tem a satisfação de anunciar a publicação do livro O FUTURO DA REGULAÇÃO DE PLATAFORMAS DIGITAIS: Digital Services Act (DSA), Digital Markets Act (DMA) e seus impactos no Brasil. Ao mesmo tempo que a comunicação digital se apresenta como um avanço no exercício na democracia, também pode representar uma ameaça, exigindo a criação de modelos de regulação coerentes e eficazes. Não há como negar que a forma de gestão adotada pelas grandes empresas de tecnologia permite e facilita a utilização do meio para manipulação de algoritmos e a prática de diversos crimes. Em um cenário que apresenta novos atores e tecnologias, temas como regulação do amb...
Il Metaverso è già realtà. Microsoft, Nvidia, Apple stanno investendo e continueranno a farlo, Airbnb già immagina di affittare case in questa mixed reality. Bloomberg calcola che nel 2024 il giro d’affari legato al metaverso salirà a 800 miliardi di dollari e che entro fine decennio si raggiungerà un miliardo di utenti. Il suo sviluppo procede a ritmi esponenziali ed è arrivato il momento di fermarsi a pensare, di farsi delle domande. Vivere il metaverso è una guida che cerca di fare chiarezza sul futuro della tecnologia e un invito a riflettere su questa trasformazione radicale: come cambieranno famiglia, lavoro, istruzione, cultura? Come gestiremo gli aspetti normativi ed etici? Chi usufruirà dei vantaggi? E quali sono i modi per vivere al meglio questa realtà? Perché l’avvento del Metaverso è l’opportunità di ripensare la nostra realtà imparando dagli errori del passato. E la sfida più grande che ci attende in questa transizione epocale è quella di non perdere l’umanità e di tenere alta l’attenzione sulle tematiche del benessere, dell’inclusione e della sostenibilità.
Este livro representa uma jornada empolgante que guiará as empresas em Portugal a dar o próximo passo na construção do seu futuro. Com a contribuição de diversos especialistas que exploram o poder da descentralização e da inovação, "O Poder da Web3 e dos Mundos Virtuais para as Empresas do Futuro" oferece "insights" valiosos sobre as tecnologias emergentes da Web3, "metaverse" e mundos virtuais.
World's Best Bank - A Strategic Guide to Digital Transformation is a thorough handbook aimed at leaders and decision-makers who want to transform their entire organization from traditional to digital.
Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti’s intimate account of her first journey to the International Space Station, to which she returns in 2022, as commander of Expedition 68a—only the fourth woman to command the ISS, praised by Scott Kelly for its “incredible detail and great writing.” Two hundred days orbiting Earth on the International Space Station. Five years working and training with the aerospace community across the world. A lifetime of choices leading to the stars. These are the components of Samantha Cristoforetti’s dream, a dream she invites us to share in this intimate account of an astronaut’s journey to space. She views the triumphs and disappointments of that journey wit...
This is an introductory book on how to optimally analyze non-quantitative data, based on the author’s experiences over 60 years of research. The major message to the readers is that qualitative (non-quantitative) data are much more informative than quantitative data. This is good news for readers in applied areas of statistics such as those in the social sciences and marketing research, where qualitative data are everywhere. But how can one analyze qualitative data quantitatively and extract more information than from the sophisticated analysis of quantitative data? The key rests in illustrations of difficult topics in a way that anyone can understand. It is the author’s wish soon the use of AI will open a gate for simple means for optimal analysis of qualitative data, as illustrated throughout the book.