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James Donovan Halliday (June 12, 1972 — January 7, 2040) is the side character and tech industry businessman in the backstory of Ready Player One. He was the creator of OASIS, a massive online simulation used by billions of people in the story's dystopian future setting.
Mar 29, 2018 · Wade Watts is a poor teen from the year 2024 who spends most of his time in the OASIS, a VR world created by genius James Halliday.
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In 2045, people seek to escape from reality through a virtual reality entertainment universe called the OASIS (Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation), created by James Halliday and Ogden Morrow of Gregarious Games.
Apr 10, 2019 · The OASIS Halliday — who explicitly says he's not an avatar, meaning no one else is making him answer these questions from the real world — replies that Halliday is indeed gone.
In the year 2045, on his deathbed James Halliday, the creator of a wildly-popular virtual reality utopia known as the OASIS, begins a hunt for his fortune and ownership of the whole VRMMO world with puzzles and riddles based on Halliday's obsession with pop culture of decades past.
The creator of the OASIS. James Halliday grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, when life was still comfortable for most people in America regardless of income. Halliday had an unhappy childhood and was obsessed with 1980s pop culture. He created the OASIS with Ogden Morrow.
This is a good comparison, making James Halliday, the eccentric billionaire co-creator of OASIS, the Willy Wonka to Wade Watts' Charlie Bucket (or maybe Wade's a little more Veruca Salt). Halliday hides keys and Easter eggs like golden tickets, has a devious mind for tricks and puzzles, and possesses a subtle hatred for children and humanity.