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from WIRED<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My Family Is Trapped in the Metaverse<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Virtual reality isn\u2019t great, but it\u2019s a lot better than dealing with everything else out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Adrienne So<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ON A WHIM,\u00a0I recently started rewatching\u00a0Ready Player One<\/em><\/a>, the Steven Spielberg adaptation of\u00a0Ernest Cline\u2019s seminal novel<\/a>\u00a0about a future in which virtual reality\u00a0is<\/em>\u00a0the real world. In the opening scene, protagonist Wade Watts clambers around a ramshackle trailer park before placing a headset on his face. Everyone has largely abandoned the decrepit, rundown reality for the Oasis\u2014a virtual world of limitless possibilities, where everyone can do, be, or look like pretty much anything they want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019d asked me if we were close to\u00a0Ready Player One<\/em>\u00a0a year ago, I would\u2019ve snorted and listed any of the objections\u00a0my more skeptical colleagues<\/a>\u00a0have noted. However, on a recent Saturday afternoon, my husband put on the\u00a0Meta Quest 2 VR headset<\/a>\u00a0to play\u00a0Puzzling Places<\/em><\/a>, a 3D puzzling game, while our children played with their stuffed animals and I sorted laundry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After lunch, my 6-year-old daughter was allowed to spend a half-hour in\u00a0Google’s Tilt Brush<\/a>, a 3D drawing app where she created a frosty winter scene, complete with falling snow and snowmen named Lisa and Tom. My 4-year-old watched, enraptured, as the headset cast to the screen. After dinner, I caught my husband putting the headset on again. I told him to charge it when he was done because I was going to try a few new games with my coworker in an hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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