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Fortnite is similar to the multiverse in Ready Player One. There have been multiple cross-over events in game, such as:

1) Live DJ show https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/47118989

2) Avengers Endgame promo https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/25/18516452/fortnite-avenger...

3) Star Wars exclusive trailer https://www.wired.com/story/fortnite-star-wars/

It's proving it is more than just a battle royale shooter..

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I think Second Life or VRChat seem to have more similarity with Ready Player One. Maybe not the scale and popularity but everything else.

I think the human race will rue the day it took the first step down the path to a metaverse. Fortnite has already show millions of parents how it's impossible to get their kids to disengage from a game which carries a high social cost of not being involved. The incentives are weighed heavily against individual choice and that can only lead to new forms of slavery.

Just another darwinian filter. People who overinvest in the metaverse will select themselves out of the gene pool.

This is indeed how Tim sees Fortnite. It's like the MVP of his metaverse idea.

https://blog.siggraph.org/2019/10/siggraph-spotlight-episode...

In Creative mode it's also a platform for a wide variety of user-created games, not just pvp shooters.

Isn’t that just classic advertising by product placement?

That's really nothing new - Azur Lane has cross-over events all the time, for example.

Check out Facebook Horizon. It is eerily similar to The Oasis.

... if the sixers owned it

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