'Ready Player One' IRL? How Ernest Cline is making his metaverse dream a (virtual) reality


Visitors use VR headsets while touring an exact architectural scale model in Russia. Technology like virtual reality and concepts such as the metaverse have attracted interest from venture capital investors, tech futurists, and corporations such as Facebook parent Meta, Walt Disney Co and Apple. — AFP

In the dystopian sci-fi novel and film Ready Player One, future humans spend much of their lives in the Oasis, a virtual reality wonderland in which "the limits of reality are your own imagination."

Now, a virtual world inspired by Oasis is being brought to life.

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