He’s done book signings at the company headquarters.
Now Cline visits with Palmer at Oculus VR on occasion, checking out Oculus Rift and, most recently, Oculus Touch. “It’s lucky I just happened to write a book imagining virtual reality right on the cusp of it actually happening.” “I’m surprised that VR has come about so quickly,” Cline said. He imagined how the Internet would merge with online gaming and evolve into a three-dimensional space that we’d view through our view screens. He grew up watching games evolve from cartridge to CD-ROM to DVD to Blu-ray and the Internet grow into a mainstream media. I think that’s what prompted Palmer (Luckey) to start his Kickstarter campaign.”Ĭline imagined the VR in his book based on the coolest possible growth of the Internet. And having been promised virtual reality since the ‘80s, when there was rudimentary virtual reality in some arcades with bulky helmets that didn’t work very well, I was waiting for virtual reality like a lot of other people. “I had grown up reading fiction like that.
“I was standing on the shoulders of other science fiction writers like William Gibson, who had written Neuromancer on a typewriter before home computers even really existed, and Neal Stephenson who wrote Snow Crash in the early ‘90s and imagined an online virtual world before the birth of the modern Internet,” Cline said. That meant Cline had to use his imagination when conjuring that original story. Cline’s book is now required reading for employees at Oculus VR, which was acquired last year by Facebook for $2 billion. When Cline began writing the virtual reality action adventure, it was before Palmer Luckey had taped together his concept version for the Oculus Rift. Ernest Cline’s 2011 bestselling sci-fi book, Ready Player One, is being developed for the big screen by Cline and screenwriter Zak Penn for Steven Spielberg to direct as his next project.
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