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When Disney shut down its metaverse division on March 28, 2023, the end of the 50-person division was interpreted as doom for the metaverse, the over-hyped universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, like in novels such as Snow Crash and Ready Player One.
Ernest Cline stepped in this January in an alliance with Futureverse to bring to life the world of Ready Player One, which has been a bigger success with the Steven Spielberg movie than Stephenson’s book. Like Stevenson and Sweeney, Cline is an advocate for the open metaverse.
