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In the novel Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, the OASIS is an online platform that demonstrates a deteriorating obsession for young minds who engage in interactions online as a way to escape reality. In our society today we rely on social media and virtual platforms to cope with the real world, by creating things like the “Metaverse” for example. People have come up with this thought that if they create a new world for themselves that it will fix every flaw in one's life. The metaverse is a parallel world that offers a blend of physical and virtual worlds. “This spatial web offers a 3D arena where you can perform the same actions you would in a non virtual atmosphere.” (bhatt,2023) Users of the Metaverse will soon see that it wasn't all what …show more content…

VIrtual reality is the most studied virtual platform in the world. Scientists have picked apart this simulated 3D environment piece by piece to uncover its benefits and risks to our society if used. When a virtual reality headset is put on, your brain gets transported to this online environment, when using this head set a large amount of risks follow it. “The immersive environment of virtual reality and augmented reality can be the number one cause of anxiety or stress. Wearing an obstructive headset for only a few minutes can leave you with more than just one health risk.” (Husami, 2022) Scientists do also agree that VR can help you on a business standpoint and an empowerment of human experience. The benefits are much less convincing than the risks that the headset …show more content…

The addictive obsession causes users of these programs to gain an unhealthy fascination with being a part of them. Whether this be virtual reality,the metaverse, OASIS or augmented reality they all have traits to them which cause their users to want to continue playing them. THe risks that follow when you relive your life around these are extremely unsafe for all ages, these fake worlds make people use them to hide or cope with the issue that the real world offers. Taking this into consideration we can understand how online platforms demonstrate a deteriorating obsession for young minds who engage in interactions online as a way to escape reality. It would benefit our society today, if we did away with these platforms so our world doesn't continue to get worse as it already is day by day. From my viewpoint and many others saying that this is a very mind killing and changing thing in our world, scientists also agree with my standpoint in this. From reading the novel Ready Player One, and living in this world it has been proved that things may not be what they seem when it comes to the OASIS, and VR

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Ready Player One follows Wade Watts, a teeanger escaping from the harsh realities of the real world, lives within the OASIS, a virtual reality “most of humanity now used on a daily basis.” When the creator of the OASIS, James Halliday dies, he leaves a huge fortune behind. Without any heirs, Halliday concluded that his fortune and power can only be inherited by an OASIS user who finds Halliday’s Easter egg within the virtual game using the clues he left behind. After years of searching for the egg, hope was lost until one night Wade Watts is the first to find the Copper Key, the key to unlocking the First Gate and to eventually finding the egg, and so he tells the story of what really happened of the Hunt for the egg. Considering the book in it’s

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Ready Player One is a book by Ernest Cline. In this book, Wade Watts, a gunter, finds a key within a game called the OASIS; this leads to other keys which lead to an Easter Egg; the prize of finding this is 200+ Billion dollars, which causes war and mass murders throughout the story to find it, but in the end, Wade prevails with the Easter Egg of 200+ billion dollars. Wade’s perseverance to take down the Sixers and find the 240 billion dollar Easter Egg and to control the OASIS throughout the book; The lesson that I learned is that no matter what situation I am in, there is always a way to achieve what I want. Wade shows perseverance in the book when his trailer park dwelling blows up, losing his family and close friends. Wade had found

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Wade describes the OASIS as a completely separate world “The OASIS is the setting of my happiest childhood memories”. (p26) The author of Ready Player One even uses the OASIS as a separate world by using language that suggests that what is happening in the virtual world is in fact real, “I looked straight up at the crystal gate floating twenty meters above me”. (p538) Ready Player One treats the OASIS as its own world, while it is virtual, the OASIS even has its own public school system which has more students enrolled than in-person schooling. The people in the Ready Player One universe are glued and connected to their screens with every fiber of their being.

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Wade explains the OASIS and what it was, and how much people use it. ” It was the dawn of a new era, one where most of the human race now spent all of their free time in a video game” (Cline 60). Now everything can be done through the OASIS and many people do not go out into the real world and they spend all of their time online. This could be what is leading to many of the horrible problems that are happening in the world since almost everything is done through the OASIS, which does not require people to go out into the real world. After IOI tried to kill Wade he had to move somewhere else to get away from them, so he had just purchased an apartment so IOI no longer knew where he lived, “I would abandon the real world altogether until I found the egg” (Cline 166).

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