The Metaverse: Building the Spatial Internet is out today.
The Metaverse: Building the Spatial Internet is out today.
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Matthew Ball overhauls The Metaverse book in its second edition

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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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.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.