The Metaverse, Futureverse, Readyverse Studios & Ready Player One

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"The collected knowledge, art, and amusements of all human civilization were there, waiting for me. But gaining access to all of that information turned out to be something of a mixed blessing. Because that was when I found out the truth."
Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline
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''The time we spend in digital spaces has increased significantly as a result of the pandemic. If we look further ahead, it’s not hard to imagine a future where our digital experiences form the majority of our interactions.
If this is our future, then right now we are at a precipice.''

[@NoorAgafia]

This is the first time I'm hearing anything about this. It will be good to see Zuckerberg getting some competition and from what you have shared, Futureverse seems serious about it.
Though personally, I will never buy or use a VR headset. I recently went to my eye doctor/specialist for a check-up, one which I didn't take for quite a few years and as it turned out my eyes have significantly deteriorated. Supposedly, it's not the actual screen/monitor/tv that harms your eyes, it's the fact that you're continually looking at the same thing at a fairly short distance.
She recommended looking at something far away for at least 20seconds, every 15/20 minutes so your eyes can adjust.
In normal life, like in traffic, she explained, your eyes are continually adjusting their focus to a different distance. But if you continually look at the same thing, at a short distance, for an extended period of time, your eyesight will decline. Mine probably worse due to genetics but the fact that we need to force our eyes to look at things which vary in distance still stands.
I wouldn't say my lifestyle is that irregular. What the hell is going to happen when you have countless people looking at screens inside a VR headset? Which are placed only a few centimeters from your eyes. I have no doubt you will have a whole generation of people who are practically blind if this VR stuff becomes a reality.
(There is already a large increase in people with eyesight problems due to mobile phones and other screen, which are placed at least a meter away from you? What happens when that distance is massively reduced to only a few centimeters? The companies will simply have disclaimers at the start of the game: You need to take a break every 20 minutes, to cover legal problems, but we can all guess how much of an impact that will have.)

[@DarknessIsMyAlly]

Transforming the movie Ready Player One into a game seems impossible. Not just in terms of it's depiction of massive multiplayer maps and players, which current hardware simply can't support, at least not on that scale. But also the Halliday library and copyright laws, or even adding a fully customizable race game with a FPS is something we have never seen before.