The consolidation of a rubbish future continues as Ready Player One-inspired "open metaverse" is announced

2024 is feeling like 2022 (or 2023) all over again as Futureverse is teaming up with novelist Ernest Cline and Warner Bros. Discovery to potentially burn billions of dollars by attempting to create a Ready Player One-inspired, AI-powered metaverse that will probably only achieve a fraction of the power Fortnite already has.The worst entertainment-related news of the 2024 so far (competition is already high) dropped today, January 4, with Futureverse announcing the launch of Readyverse Studios alongside Ready Player One creator Ernest Cline and Dan Farah, producer of the actually fun 2018 movie directed by Steven Spielberg, who did the best he could with such rancid source material.The entire press release reads like a fever dream filled with the usual buzzwords and concepts that everyone but C-suites and aspiring tech bros has been clowning on for like two years now. With Meta walking back its embarrassing metaverse plans early last year and Warner Bros. Discovery being so broke that it's burying almost-finished movies for quick cash, one has to wonder what the long-term goal (besides scamming other C-suites and investors) is here. Read more