Fans of Ready Player One will soon be able to step into a digital universe known as The Readyverse, and a new trailer for the platform offers a glimpse of what to expect from the user experience.
Ernest Cline, the author of Ready Player One, and Dan Farah, the producer of Steven Spielberg’s 2018 film adaptation, have teamed up with Readyverse Studios and the latest trailer provides a first look at what they have been building.
The sizzle reel shows that users will take charge of who they want to be and the worlds they want to explore. They will start by selecting an avatar with swappable and tradable wardrobe items and then use an AI curator to craft their experience, building AI-generated personal environments with various objects and music options.
The Readyverse leverages “web3 and AIGC technologies” to create “a next-gen immersive and interoperable launcher for discovering metaverse games and experiences,” per the press release, which refers to the platform as a “definitive destination for fans to explore their favorite stories and IP in the metaverse.”
Readyverse Studios announced a partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery in January that allows them to exclusively bring the Ready Player One franchise to the metaverse. The company also maintains exclusive web3 rights to Cline’s other novels (including his sci-fi sequel Ready Player Two) and all his future works.
Spielberg’s Ready Player One was an absolute avalanche of ’80s and ’90s pop culture references, as citizens in a dystopian future escaped their miserable lives by syncing into a global online open-world realm called the OASIS. The movie was a commercial and critical success, with IGN calling it a “fun (and funny) adaptation of the beloved sci-fi novel” that has “countless cameos” and is “easy to plug into and enjoy.”
Adele Ankers-Range is a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on X/Twitter here.
