as advertise across a host of digital worlds. is any of this starting to sound familiar? a lot of companies are talking about creating a metaverse in that they want to become a platform where people can exist at all times. they want to create social spaces where people can come and hang out with their friends, they can watch movies, they can do everything that they were doing a normal life but within that platform. almost like a particular movie, in a way. this is the oasis. it is a place where the limits of reality are your own imagination. stephen spielberg's adaptation of the novel of the same name tells the tale of a downtrodden teen hero who escapes the dystopian spool of the near future america by spending as much time as possible online in a multiplayer virtual world. a place which matches up characters and pop culture themes from movies, comics and games. it was another sci—fi novel that coined the phrase metaverse.