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Who’s interested in a Ready Player One-branded metaverse?

One of the bigger takeaways from Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One was how nightmarish it would be if the internet of the future ended up being a corporate-owned amusement park built around an eccentric billionaire’s obsession with IP they loved as a child.

But that isn’t stopping Cline and Warner Bros. Discovery from trying to launch the Readyverse — “a destination for fans to explore their favorite stories and IP in the metaverse” — which is absolutely a thing people people are going to sign up for.

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