Then it becomes like you can’t tell the difference or feel the difference or smell or hear the difference. “When it becomes indistinguishable from reality. “That’s the end point in the evolution of video games and virtual reality,” Cline says. ONI is a highly addictive, potentially brain-damaging simulation that will change the world forever. This suppressed technology enables users to experience OASIS with all five senses, to record and even upload real-life experiences.

In 'Ready Player Two,' our hero Wade Watts, who has gone from living the life of a poor gamer to winning control of the virtual-reality system OASIS, finds out about a technology called ONI that has been kept from the public.

Regarding the warnings of too much social media and screen time that seem sewn into his sequel, Cline says: “I try to show the good side and the bad side of technology, but this one is definitely more of a cautionary tale.” “I’ve matured, and my life has changed a lot.”Ĭline, who is married to poet Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz and has two daughters, says he actually has a love/hate relationship with the internet and its corresponding technology. “Well, yeah, you know, I am 10 years older than when I wrote the first book, and 20 years older than when I started the first book,” Cline says. With the release of 'Ready Player Two,' the Austin, Texas-based author tweaks the expectations of his own brand of nostalgic escapism with an Easter egg of ambivalence regarding the addictive nature of the very internet-based obsessions that initially inspired him. Ernest Cline’s 2011 debut novel, 'Ready Player One,' a kind of Willy Wonka-meets-'Tron' adventure story, validated the digital diversions of gamers and 1980s enthusiasts alike with its arcade in-jokes and allusions to John Hughes movies.

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