One thing this reference also makes painfully clear is just how difficult enumerating this film’s countless references will be.
Not only would you probably have to freeze frame and zoom in on a shot in Wade’s apartment in order to read the book titles, you would then have to know the original title of the book the movie is based on.
Sure, you’ll see Master Chief, Harley Quinn and Chun-Li, but those are the easy ones.
Just judging by this, the trailers and what I’ve heard about the film, by the time we tally up all the references in Ready Player One, our own virtual reality technology will have caught up to Ernest Cline’s vision.