Ready Player One

 In ready player one, the OASIS is an escape from reality for Wade and his friends. They used the OASIS to be someone they aren’t. It was made very clear that the characters in the OASIS should not give out any personal information, so when beginning this project I thought it would be hard to receive information about our interviewee. Unlike ready player one, It was a lot easier than I expected, and Pablo was very open to telling us personal information. He explained that he usually plays after he eats dinner and has a group of consistent Xbox friends with whom he plays. He has never met any of them in real life though, they are all just friends through Xbox live. 

I found it cool that they all call each other their friends even though they have never seen or met one another in person, just like Wade when he called H his best friend. Wade even told Sam he loved her. I asked Pablo if he has played with someone he gained feelings for and said he has not, he just gained friendships through the call of duty, not love. 

After finding out more about him, it was clear that he also used Xbox to escape from real life. He told us how he found it cool that he can be friends with kids of all ages from all over the world, and in real life, all his friends are similar and around 20 just like him. 



I'm a marketing major, not only is technology a main aspect of marketing but In marketing, it is important to put on a front to get what you want, and in order to do that You can pretend to make it something it isn't, or pretend to be something your not in order to sell your product. You can allow yourself to transform into a different person allowing you to connect with your target audience, and interact with a different group of people you may not usually talk to. In the OASIS and Call of duty the avatars are different from how they really are in reality. Pablo talks to people he wouldn’t talk to in real life, and his avatar displays a different type of person as well, just like how marketing can be your out from reality as well.

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