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Ready Player One author and Futureverse team up for Readyverse Studios metaverse

Ready Player One author and Futureverse team up for Readyverse Studios metaverse

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Do you want to get the latest gaming industry news straight to your inbox? Sign up for our daily and weekly newsletters here. Futureverse, a well-financed AI and metaverse company, has formed Readyverse Studios in partnership with Ready Player One author Ernest Cline. Readyverse Studios’ founders told GamesBeat they plan to build the “definitive destination” for fans to explore their favorite stories and intellectual properties in the the metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, like in novels such as Snow Crash and Ready Player One.  And Futureverse, which has raised more than $54 million and acquired numerous startups, has teamed up with Cline, the best-selling novelist whose book was turned into a Steven Spielberg film. The founders of Readyverse Studios include Futureverse cofounders Shara Senderoff and Aaron McDonald, as well as Cline and Dan Farah, Ready Player One film producer. Their ambition is to bring the world of the book to the virtual worlds of the metaverse, and in an exclusive interview with GamesBeat the founders said their aim is to create the foundations for …

Futureverse is a metaverse company that might actually get it

Futureverse is a metaverse company that might actually get it

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Startups that look to improve an industry’s outdated infrastructure are definitely welcome in sectors like financial services and healthcare. But why would a company build infrastructure for an industry that seems to have hit its prime and zoomed past it in record time? That was my question when I saw the news about Futureverse’s recent $54 million Series A round. The startup is a platform of 11 companies that range from gaming studios and entities that enable web3 payments, to blockchain startups providing the tools for brands and builders to more easily create content for the metaverse. I’m missing something. Aren’t we all tired of hearing about the metaverse against our will? Haven’t we come to the realization that folks don’t want their social or work lives to look anything like Second Life? Aaron McDonald, co-founder and CEO of Futureverse, told TechCrunch+ that some of the more vocal players in the category have made the metaverse seem like it’s one thing — a virtual world — as opposed to what he sees it as: technology that …