Enter the Metaverse: How AI and the 3D Internet Will Change Our World

Foreword by Neal Stephenson, bestselling author of Snow Crash

Over the last 100 years, technology has changed our world. Over the next decade it will transform our reality. The planet is headed for a momentous upheaval, and we are not prepared.

We are entering a new technological age in which artificial intelligence and immersive media will transform society at all levels, mediating our lives by altering what we see, hear, and experience. Powered by immersive eyewear and driven by interactive AI agents, this new age of computing has the potential to make our world a magical place where the boundaries between the real and the virtual, the human and the artificial, rapidly fade away. If managed well, this could unleash a new age of abundance. If managed poorly, this technological revolution could easily go astray, deeply compromising our privacy, autonomy, agency, and even our humanity.

In Our Next Reality, two industry veterans provide a data-driven debate on whether the new world we’re creating will be a technological utopia or an AI-powered dystopia and give guidance on how to aim for the best future we can. With a Foreword by renowned author Neal Stephenson and section contributions from industry thought-leaders such as Peter H. Diamandis, Tom Furness, Phillip Rosedale, Tony Parisi, Avi Bar Zeev and Walter Parkes, this book answers over a dozen of the most pressing questions we face as AI/VR/AR accelerates the digitization of our world. Find out why our actions in the next decade could determine the trajectory of our species for countless millennia.

Mr. Alvin Wang Graylin is the Global VP of Corporate Development for HTC is one of the leading providers of XR devices and metaverse solutions globally, and a recognized innovator in the industry. He is also the president of the Virtual Reality Venture Capital Alliance (VRVCA) and a co-head of the ViveX VR Accelerator, which together have invested in over 110 XR, metaverse and AI startups in the past 7 years. He is Vice-chairman of the Industry of VR Association (IVRA) in China with over 300 corporate members and a globally sought-after keynote speaker who was voted by media and industry experts as the most influential person in the XR industry in China from 2016-2022.

Dr. Louis Rosenberg is an early pioneer in the fields of virtual and augmented reality. His work began over thirty years ago in labs at Stanford and NASA. Rosenberg founded Microscribe 3D, a company that pioneered 3D digitizing for film, VR, and gaming and whose products were used in the making of many classic movies, from Shrek and Ice Age to Titanic. He is Chief Scientist of the Responsible Metaverse Alliance (RMA) and is an advisor to XRSI, the Future of Marketing Institute, the XR Policy Fund, and Metavethics Institute. Rosenberg earned his PhD from Stanford University, was a tenured professor at California State University, has published over 100 academic papers, and has been awarded over 300 patents for VR, AR, and AI technologies.