Is the metaverse really going to happen? -- What is the role of AI in our immersive future? -- Will our next reality be centralized or decentralized? -- The AI-powered metaverse: How will the ecosystem unfold? -- Privacy, identity and security: Can society manage? -- Will AI and immersive media redefine marketing? -- How will tech advancement disrupt art, culture and media? -- What will be the impact on our health and medicine? -- How will our kids learn and develop in an AI-powered future? -- Will superintelligence and spatial computing unleash an Age of Abundance? -- What will be the geopolitical impact of a Global Metaverse? -- The human condition: Will the future make us happier? -- How can we realize the future we want? -- Epilogue: Our next reality -- Utopia or Dystopia?

Over the last 100 years, technology has changed our world. Over the next decade it will transform our reality. 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 spatial computing and AI 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