Understanding the Metaverse: Applications, Challenges, and the Future

This book highlights the numerous potentials and concerns involved with using the metaverse. Furthermore, the project discusses countermeasures to protect any firm from these risks. Insights into practical solutions may assist organizations in using this new business model by raising awareness and preparing them to improve. The book helps readers get insights into technology’s future, i.e., the metaverse. The application areas of the metaverse is quite vast, but it also includes security and privacy issues. Addressing the security issues is the need of the hour. Developers are designing the applications, and users are ready to use them, but on the other side, many security issues need to be focused on. Hence, along with the applications, this book helps the reader understand these hidden security and privacy issues.

Dr. Gunjan Chhabra is a Ph.D. in computer science and engineering, working as an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Graphic Era Hill University, Dehradun. He has a teaching experience of 10 years and an area of his expertise is Algorithms, Image processing, and Machine learning. He has published ten patents, with four granted patents from IPR. Also, he has published several research papers in various renowned journals. Additionally, he has authored three textbooks on the domain Internet of Things, smart technologies, and machine learning. He has also mentored many projects in different domains of computer science to solve real-world problems. Under his guidance, his students have successfully incubated their ideas.

Keshav Kaushik is an experienced educator with around ten years of teaching and research experience in cybersecurity, digital forensics, and the Internet of Things. He is working as an Assistant Professor (Senior Scale) in the systemic cluster under the School of Computer Science at the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India. He has published 100+ research papers in International Journals and has presented at reputed International Conferences. He is a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) v11, CQI and IRCA Certified ISO/IEC 27001:2013 Lead Auditor, Quick Heal Academy Certified Cyber Security Professional (QCSP), and IBM Cybersecurity Analyst. He acted as a keynote speaker and delivered 50+ professional talks on various national and international platforms. He has edited over twenty books with reputed international publishers like Springer, Taylor and Francis, IGI Global, Bentham Science, etc. He has chaired various special sessions at international conferences and also served as a reviewer in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. Currently, he is also serving as Vice Chairperson of the Meerut ACM Professional Chapter and is also a brand ambassador for Bentham Science. Moreover, he is also serving as a guest editor in the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI) (IF:7.7).