the name of the virtual reality world in ready player one is march 30, 2018.
what is the name of the virtual reality world in ready player one?
march 30, 2018
a number of other popular fictional works use the concept of virtual reality. these include william gibson's 1984 "neuromancer", which defined the concept of cyberspace, and his 1994 "virtual light", where a presentation viewable in vr-like goggles was the macguffin. other examples are neal stephenson's "snow crash", in which he made extensive reference to the term avatar to describe one's representation in a virtual world, and rudy rucker's "the hacker and the ants", in which a programmer uses vr for robot design and testing. the "otherland" series of 4 novels by tad williams, published from 1996 to 2001 and set in the 2070s, shows a world where the internet has become accessible via virtual reality. more recently, the 2011 novel "ready player one" by ernest cline is about a virtual reality system called the oasis that people use to escape from the grim reality of a dying earth in 2045
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the idea that a human could be entirely represented as a program in a computer was a core element of the film "tron". this would be further explored in the film version of "the lawnmower man", "transcendence", and "ready player one" and the idea reversed in "virtuosity" as computer programs sought to become real persons. in the "matrix" series, the virtual reality world became a real-world prison for humanity, managed by intelligent machines. in movies such as "existenz", "the thirteenth floor", and "inception", the nature of reality and virtual reality become intermixed with no clear distinguishing boundary.
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