they can do everything that they were doing in their normal life but within that platform. almost like the movie ready player one, in a way. this is the oasis. it's a place where the limits of reality are your own imagination. steven spielberg's 2018 movie adaptation of ernest klein's novel of the same name tells the tale of a downtrodden teen hero who escapes the dystopian sprawl of a near—future america by spending as much time as possible online in a multiplayer virtual world — a place which mashes up characters and pop culture themes from movies, comics and games. it was another sci—fi novel that coined the phrase metaverse, though — neal stephenson�*s 1992 book snow crash, which also has a hero who's got a crummy light who escapes a crummy life who escapes into a virtual world, the metaverse. hollywood—style vr does