Ready Player One
| Ready Player One | |
|---|---|
| An ARG linked to the movie adaptation of Ernest Cline's Ready Player One' | |
| Type | [[List_of_Investigations#Official|Official]] |
| Creator | Warner Bros. |
| Discovered | 2017-12-10 |
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The Ready Player One ARG was a promotional ARG linked to the release of the movie Ready Player One. The movie itself is an adaptation of Ernest Cline's novel, of the same name. The fiction takes place in the near future, where a virtual world called the OASIS has risen to prevalence in society. When James Halliday, the creator of the OASIS, dies, he leaves his entire fortune to whomever can discover the Easter egg he has hidden within the OASIS. Ready Player One follows those who choose to search for this Easter egg.
Ready Player One is set to release on March 30, 2018.
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Halliday's Ghost
On December 10, 2017, the first official trailer for Ready Player One was released. At the 1:10 mark of this trailer, a QR code is visible:
Scanning this QR code leads to the URL http://www.jointhequest.io/HallidaysGhost/, which contains a profile on James Halliday, the creator of the OASIS. On the left side of the screen, some binary code is visible:
01010100 01010011 01000001 01010010 01011001 00001101 00001010 01010101 01000101 00100000 01001110 01010011 01000111
Deciphering this binary into ASCII (eg. using this site) yields the following text:
TSARYUE NSG
These jumbled letters were later used to find a password on the main Join the Quest site.
