What does “metaverse” really mean?

More importantly–what can it mean in your life?

Especially if you’re not a “technical” person? Or, alternately, if you have some knowledge of the technologies and want to take the next steps in putting them to work for you?

These are some of the questions which strategic business consultant, keynote speaker and educator Samantha G. Wolfe addresses in her new book: Metaversed: See Beyond the Hype.

Sam, as she prefers to be called, is both the Founder of New York technology consultancy firm PitchFWD and an adjunct professor at NYU.

In Metaversed, which she co-authored with Luis Bravo Martins, Sam offers both a clear definition of the term “metaverse”, and a series of guidelines towards accessing it.

And she’d especially like readers to know: the metaverse is for everyone. Including artists, educators and anyone who isn’t quite sure, yet, how it could fit into their life and work.

“It shouldn’t only be the people that know how to code or develop that (need to be involved),” Sam comments. “It needs to be more than that.”

In other words, the metaverse is for YOU–and Sam’s new book explores the ways you can get involved. Including a great chapter on “Resources” which, we admit, is a personal favorite.

Sam talked about some of the ways the metaverse and artificial intelligence could facilitate everyday life, considerations involved in protecting privacy and some of the ways these technologies might be used to build a better world.

• A definition of the term “metaverse”;
  

• How these technologies might affect daily life in five years;
  

• How the metaverse might be instrumental in solving some of the world’s problems;
  

• A look at some of the applications of the technologies for the arts and education;
  

• How one skeptical educator came to realize the pertinence of XR to their area;
  

• How the metaverse may affect the workplace of the future;
  

• Ways to avoid the same mistakes made with the Internet when building the metaverse;
  

• Where to start, if you’re new to the metaverse;
  

• Some of Sam’s favorite resources for “on boarding” experiences.