Ready Player One – How this author’s fictional world inspired real VR
Over the past four years, bestselling author Ernest Cline has watched the fictional world of virtual reality that he conceived in his 2011 book, Ready Player One, become an actual reality.
With Zak Penn writing the screenplay and Steven Spielberg set to direct the big screen version, a lot more people are going to be exposed to Ready Player One—but the people at the forefront of developing VR are already very familiar with the Cline’s book.
Cline says like most science fiction writers, he underestimated the speed with which humanity would progress to his imagined future. Ready Player Onetakes place 30 years from now.
Not to mention that the Ready Player One movie could be at the forefront of a new type of VR experience, thanks to Warner Bros.’ TWX 1.04% investment in Magic Leap augmented reality technology and its acquisition of the film rights.
“Ready Player One could be the first movie that incorporates some of this virtual reality technology into the film going experience,” Cline says. “Magic Leap could play a role in the way the movie is presented. It’s not a head-mounted display, but it alters the light that already goes into your eye and makes the room around you more like a holodeck. That’s fascinating to me because that could allow film viewers to wear clear glasses like 3D glasses, but they could allow the action in the movie to spill out beyond the edges of the rectangular movie screen.”
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