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Ready Player One author and Futureverse team up for Readyverse Studios metaverse
04.01.2024 - 14:45 / venturebeat.com / Steven Spielberg
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Futureverse, a well-financed AI and metaverse company, has formed Readyverse Studios in partnership with Ready Player One author Ernest Cline.
Readyverse Studios’ founders told GamesBeat they plan to build the “definitive destination” for fans to explore their favorite stories and intellectual properties in the the metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, like in novels such as Snow Crash and Ready Player One.
And Futureverse, which has raised more than $54 million and acquired numerous startups, has teamed up with Cline, the best-selling novelist whose book was turned into a Steven Spielberg film.
The founders of Readyverse Studios include Futureverse cofounders Shara Senderoff and Aaron McDonald, as well as Cline and Dan Farah, Ready Player One film producer. Their ambition is to bring the world of the book to the virtual worlds of the metaverse, and in an exclusive interview with GamesBeat the founders said their aim is to create the foundations for an open metaverse — one not dominated by any single company. They talked about the effort in an exclusive interview with GamesBeat.
Readyverse Studios is building a metaverse destination leveraging Web3, metaverse games and experiences, augmented reality, and virtual reality technologies.
In 2024, Readyverse Studios said it will launch The Readyverse, a dynamic interactive platform of interconnected digital experiences.
In its first major rights deal, Readyverse Studios has partnered with Warner Bros. Discovery to exclusively bring the Ready Player One franchise to the metaverse across Web3.
In addition, Readyverse Studios maintains exclusive Web3 rights to all future IPs from the legendary futurist Cline, whose works alongside Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson have been instrumental in painting a vision of the metaverse.
Additional brands and franchises joining The Readyverse will be announced soon. Readyverse Studios is laying the groundwork to bring the promise of the open metaverse depicted in Cline’s Ready Player One novel and the blockbuster film adaptation into a tangible reality; a multi-world, multi-IP, interoperable open metaverse experience for mass consumers.
Arguably, no IP has shaped the global culture and conversation around the metaverse more than Ready Player One. While Snow Crash shaped early thinking for virtual worlds like Second Life, it wasn’t turned into a film. Ready Player One generated $583.4 million at the global box office. In that sense, Ready Player One has the edge in creating awareness around the idea of the metaverse.
The Readyverse will champion the principles of
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