That's the tricky thing about science-fiction, you don't want to overestimate the progress of humanity, but you don't want to underestimate either.
"Once I saw that," he says, "I realized all the things that I had written in Ready Player One were happening a lot faster than I had estimated. The video feed allows for a multi-angle view of the performance, a VR concert, rather than a simulated video game. That just rocked my world."Ĭline says he was fully convinced of the potential of the Oculus when he was able to experience Chris Milk's " Sound and Vision" at Sundance, which transports users to a virtual Beck show via the Rift. I was blown away by it then, but I went back and tried out the Crystal Cove.
"Palmer had contacted me and told me to come and do a demo because of my book. "The first time was pretty amazing," he says. This has been mainly through Palmer Luckey's work at Oculus, a company he just sold to Facebook for $2 billion. Cline's book has gone from a great read to almost somewhat prophetic, as in the last few years VR has moved from science fiction to a tangible reality. In the story, a young man named Wade Watts tries to hunt down an easter egg hidden inside the game by OASIS's creator, who promises his fortune to whoever can solve the riddles to find it. A few years ago, we got a new VR classic for the modern era, Ernest Cline's Ready Player One.Ĭline's book focuses on the Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation, more easily known as the OASIS, a massively multiplayer virtual reality game that has taken over nearly every aspect of society in a dystopian future. William Gibson gave us the original "Matrix" in 1984's Neuromancer, and Neal Stephenson had his own vision of the "Metaverse" in 1992's Snow Crash. Virtual reality and science fiction have a long history, and over the years many authors have tried to paint a picture of what life in the future might look like after widespread adoption of the technology.
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