Y’all know that Ready Player One was a DYS-topia right guys?
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But it was still owned privately. Ideally, the virtual paradise would use a federation method with an open protocol, so anyone could connect to it.
It was basically owned by Gaben who died and some other corporation tried to take over Valve.
I didn’t know that meme, and the original tweet is funny and really hits the nail on the head for a lot of things…
But from what I’ve seen of the movie, Ready Player One is more like “Please create the Oasis, so that asshole can have fun”.
Snowcrash was a dystopia too but that didn’t stop tech bros from jerking it to the metaverse.
I think most govts and corporations see the word “dystopia” and understand “how-to manual”
I mean, this is definitely going to be a disaster but I think the title and article here are a little misleading. The author implies that Warner Brothers is spearheading (and paying for) this venture, but I just read through the buzzword salad of a press release and it barely mentions them. The project is driven by an independent company that licensed the ready player one IP from WB. The whole thing very carefully avoids any details about money changing hands, but my guess is either that WB is getting paid, or they’ve negotiated a cut of any theoretical future profits. Of course, the chances of there ever being profits are slim to none, but I’d say at worst they’re net $0 on the deal, and at best they actually made some money by getting paid up front. They might suffer some reputation damage if it becomes a real catastrophe, but as the author of the article mentioned they are billions in debt, so its probably a risk they’re happy to take.
Crazy that this involves the author… We really can’t learn can we?
This is seeing the Titanic movie and saying, “yup, we’re building the titanic and sailing into an iceberg! Who’s coming with us?”
Now I’m actually wondering if the author thinks the Ready Player One world is worth living in.
He really does.
Ready Player One sounds, on the surface, like a searing critique of corporate capitalist bullshit, but in the end the actual upshot in the novel and movie is “We need kinder, gentler billionaires to be our feudal overlords”.
I’m sorry, the what?
Yeah i know I’m getting old when i have no idea what the headline means and I’ve only read the book. 🧐
“Fortnite, the real, actual closest thing to a metaverse we have”
Umm, what?
I would kind of agree, that and Roblox. No VR though.
roblox is the best place
Inb4 Bloxchain
When I hear about concerts, and hotels reproducing their entire layout inside of Fortnite, I can actually respect the comparison. Of course, I’ve also seen many advertised attempts at “maid cafes” within the residential districts of FFXIV, so there’s multiple people trying it - Fortnite is just the most well known.
People don’t associate Fortnite with that due to the main game being just pvp instanced deathmatches. But it is, by far, the most comprehensive example of what a corporate * metaverse would look like, specially now that they have their creative mode or whatever it’s called.
*I know something like VR Chat or your favorite MMO with housing is closer to what people would want or imagine the metaverse to be, but that’s not what the buzzword is for the suits.
But it is, by far, the most comprehensive example of what a corporate * metaverse would look like,
Roblox seems to fit that more than a pvp death match game with some events tacked on.
And don’t forget minecraft where they made the entire earth https://buildtheearth.net/
It’s not just some events tacked on. I’m pretty sure you can create your own game experiences inside of Fortnite much like Roblox.
fellers never heard of a mmorpg
Funny thing is, a real life Metaverse has existed for over 20 years. The term Metaverse comes from a book called Snow Crash. The game Second Life was designed explicitly to be the Metaverse envisioned in Snow Crash, complete with it’s own economy tied to real life money (as in, if you made enough money in-game, you could cash it out for real-world USD). Companies used to build headquarters in the game world similar to how some do in Fortnite now, even going so far as to hold actual real world business meetings in-game as a form of teleconferencing. After a few high-profile events where live TV broadcasts of in-game events got swarmed by flying dicks, the media lost interest in the game, and companies abandoned the game and moved on to more business-oriented solutions.
The book was crap so I wouldn’t expect anything else. I honestly think it was one of the worst books I’ve read.
I haven’t read the book, but the movie was crap too. It was just a slide show of '80s and '90s references that completely failed to capture what made those good, or even understand them.
The book ran full off 'memberberries as well.
It was a quick read and the entire book can be summed up as generational pandering.
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I thought we were done with web3 nft bs
They’re desperate to make it happen because the potential benefits to them are so great that they become blinded by greed.
Don’t forget the sunk cost fallacy!
NFTs for just art I’m not sure what’s going go happen, but NFTs are never going to go away when they represent an actual useful digital thing like a concert ticket.
The tech and industry just needs to further mature.
But you don’t need NFT to make a concert ticket… a barcode or QR with a simple unique number works just as well.
NFTs are supposed to be cryptographically secure and blockchain-tracked certificates of authenticity for digital goods. “This is a unique original work by so-and-so”. Any duplication wouldn’t have the same hash and thus is not legitimate.
There are plenty of good uses for this if you are of the mindset that digital goods need to be protected and proven as unique and original works. In a proper setup, it would negate the need for DRM and enable the legal sale and trade of digital media/games in the secondary market, by preventing unlawful duplication (piracy). This is beneficial because piracy, as GabeN prophesized, is an issue of service, not price. Consumers are typically willing to pay good money for good entertainment. They do not want to pay good money and find that a game is incomplete or poorly optimized, or to have less product (digital good) for the same price (physical good) (i.e., not being able to re-download after an arbitrary date, not be able to resell, lack of boxart, bonus content, etc).
NFTs do not solve the problem of proof of ownership. Nor can they. If someone steals it from you - whether by trickery, force, or any other means - it’s just as lost to you as any other stolen thing, digital or physical. (Not to touch on the fact that NFTs to date have just been URLs to web hosted media, i.e. ridiculously non-unique and insecure.)
Also, your whole paragraph about theoretical NFT replacement for DRM is just describing a different kind of DRM.
You’re describing DRM in another form and shape.
DRM is never about consumer rights, it’s about taking them away, it’s about making sure that the consumer never gets to own a piece of digital media and is always dependent on some online service so it can be revoked and resold. Because it’s ok when Disney sells you the same movie 5 times but not if you resell it once, right? 🙄
You don’t need anything to anything, it’s just a theoretical improvement.
No one is hacking your email and stealing the barcode, or figuring out the algorithm and generating fake barcodes. There’s no risk that if I sell the barcode to someone else that I also didn’t sell it other people as well.
Ticket fraud is huge. (Edit its a multi billion dollar problem)
To then solve those problems you bring in middle men and they charge fees.
Reselling a concert ticket securely (from my perspective, not companies) cost me and the user 5% each. And that’s if a service is even offered.
An NFT concert ticket legitimately solves a lot of real problems more efficiently than existing technology.
But ease of use of crypto and transaction fees are still too high to make this a mass market solution. That’ll change though.
Ernest Cline is a sellout who got lucky piggybacking off the success of popular franchises. I’ve seen high schoolers write better than that guy.
It’s easily the worst book I’ve read, and I only finished because of the unintentional hilarity of it all. In a story ostensibly about how evil media mega corporations are, the author wrote a hail corporateove love letter to top selling franchises without realizing the irony.
There was potential in it being a self parody, although in a way the whe situation is funnier because he was so earnest.
I spent my first audible credit on that book. I hadn’t seen the movie…still haven’t. But it was narrated by Wil Wheaton, and I knew him from reddit. He did a good job. That’s all I have to say about it.
Same only way I heard it and the movie sucked ass. He is a sellout won’t even touch the second one.
I agree. I couldn’t get through the first 10 pages.
Since I haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere else in the comments, I thought I’d leave this here: https://372pages.com/episode-0-a-book-were-probably-going-to-hate
“372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back” is a podcast where Mike Nelson (MST3K, Rifftrax) and Conor Lastoka (Rifftrax) read and review books they’re “pretty sure they’re going to hate”. RP1 is the first book & source of the podcast title, since it’s 372 pages. It’s like Mystery Science Theater 3000 for books and it is hilarious, I highly recommend.
Just when I thought the WB’s DC cinematic Universe was such a huge Trainwreck, it looks like they plan to top it with this.
Oh and remember Space Jam?
DCEU was and is a trainwreck but the trailer for their game DC online game was banging: https://youtu.be/0WYwXer0sgU?si=XN_Xp6wyS10X2SID
WB execs are currently in the #1 position on the list of dumbest motherfuckers of 2024. And boy are they setting the bar REALLY high.
i thought metaverse thingy is dead?
It was never alive to begin with. The Metaverse exists as nothing more than a buzzword made popular by Zuckerberg/Meta. There are no technologies, standards, devices or software driving it. Nobody even agrees on what features it should have.
And on top of that, old pre-buzzword stuff like SecondLife or PlaystationHome are still closer to a “Metaverse” than any of the more recent buzzword filled attempts.
It is. Of the 3 big emergent techs, vr, crypto, and AI, ai is the only non bullshit one, and the meta verse bet on the other two…
I can’t wait for this
To utterly fail
