Hacker Cinema
Carver's Gate
1996 · Film · 97 min
Directed by Sheldon Inkol
The world is a bleak desolate place where the people live in elevated cities. As the ground is uninhabitable, the citizens spend most of their lives wasting their time in virtual reality. Carver is a dream-breaker whose job is to enter the world of VR and fix what is wrong. And what is wrong is that his gal pal Dinah has been murdered in VR which should not be possible. But Carver soon finds that Dinah has constructed a transducer which allows people to enter VR without other equipment, but creates a rift. That rift causes people to enter VR, but also allows the creatures from the game to enter the real world.
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I think this is the premise of 1995 Sci-Fi channel classic CARVER'S GATE -- in a grim future where the planet's ecosystem is ruined and its remaining inhabitants struggle to survive, anybody who can afford spends all their time inside their VR helmets living out escapist fantasies.
The motivating issue in that film is that a bunch of people play video games, a scientist invents a tool that allows the Doom monsters to come back to earth, and a QA engineer has to hunt them down before they destroy the remaining shreds of humanity. That part is of course unrealistic but otherwise the Metaverse narrative plausibly matches this Michael Parée classic.