TL;DR

• Ernest Cline (author of ‘Ready Player One’) is developing a metaverse called The Readyverse, and its first experience is a battle royale called ‘Open.’

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Imagine if James Cameron started making walking/talking humanoid robots, à la The Terminator…

That’d be kinda cool…right?

But then, what if he was also endowing these robots with an AI consciousness that had the potential to wipe out humanity, also like The Terminator.

Not so cool.

☝️ There’re some parallels with that hypothetical, and today’s story…

Ernest Cline’s ‘Ready Player One’ tells the story of a not-too-distant future, where:

• Society as we know it has largely crumbled

• The world has become just a tad ‘Mad Max-ish’

• Most of humanity escapes this harsh reality through a VR wonderland known as ‘The Oasis’

Yeah, well — Ernest Cline is apparently working on building said VR wonderland, irl.

In this reality, Ernie’s metaverse is called The Readyverse, and its first experience is a Fortnite-style battle royale called ‘Open.’

On one hand — super exciting!

Cause (minus the whole ‘collapse of society’ thing) ‘The Oasis’ metaverse described in the book sounds like a lot of fun!

On the other…slight ‘James-Cameron-building-an-irl-Terminator’ vibes.

Either way, we’re going to try it out, cause we’re suckers for new tech and are itching to have our first ‘this is it!’ metaverse moment.

(And so far, we’ve only been let down).