Ready Player One Trailer Explained: 10 Things We Learned

10. What The OASIS Avatars Look Like

The initial teaser gave us a clear look at Sheridan's Wade and his bleak existence in the 'stacks': trailer parks in which the trailers are parked on top of one another, as well as side-by-side. However, we hadn't yet seen Parzival, the personalised avatar Wade uses in the OASIS.

The theatrical trailer gives us a clear look at Parzival, and as may have been expected considering he only exists within a virtual reality, he and all the other OASIS avatars are 100% digital creations. Indeed, it would appear that all the footage from within the OASIS has been realised via the same mo-cap CGI technology Spielberg used on 2011's The Adventures of Tintin, and in a lesser capacity on 2016's The BFG.

A common complaint of this technology (long-championed by Robert Zemeckis, who used it on The Polar Express, Beowulf and A Christmas Carol) is that it has a cold, lifeless quality which inadvertently renders its characters a bit creepy. However, it was of course the only logical means of bringing the world of Ready Player One to life; as a virtual world, it shouldn't seem completely real.

However, readers of the novel may be taken aback by how much of the trailer appears to take place in the bleak real world of 2044. It's clear that, in adapting the novel, Cline and co-screenwriter Zak Penn have made some significant changes.