Here comes the Torment Nexus: They're making a 'metaverse' based on Ready Player One
Ready Player One is a story about desperate people seeking escape from a collapsing society within the confines of a predatory digital world run by ultra-rich oligarchs who will do anything, including committing mass murder, in order to protect their positions of wealth and power. And now a company called Futureverse is teaming up with Warner Bros Discovery and author Ernest Cline to bring that particular Torment Nexus to life with the creation of the Readyverse, which aims to «to bring the promise of the open metaverse depicted in Cline’s Ready Player One novel and the blockbuster film adaptation into a tangible reality.»
«The future has arrived even more quickly than I imagined,» Cline said. «With Readyverse Studios, we have the opportunity to leverage the revolutionary technology Futureverse has been building for several years to bring to life the best possible version of the metaverse. I’m confident with this team, we have the brightest minds and biggest hearts in place to lead us into the next chapter of our collective future… a future that would make Wade Watts and James Halliday proud.»
That future sees Watts living as an impoverished orphan in «the Stacks,» an overcrowded, crime-riddled shantytown made up of trailers and mobile homes piled on top of each other in the crumbling US of 2045. He spends his time wandering around the virtual world known as OASIS, searching—alongside countless others—for the solution to a puzzle that will grant him ownership of OASIS and the immeasurable wealth that comes with it. His quest revolves around being good at old videogames and knowing lots of '80s pop-culture trivia, but there's plenty of violence and death too, as current OASIS owner Innovative Online Industries isn't too
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