Fiction has a way of shaping reality. It inspires people, and people are happy to borrow from fiction when it can be reality.
At the same time, fiction is shaped by reality; a lot of the ideas in RP1 aren't new or unique; they're recombinations of other ideas wrapped into a delectable package.
Even in our current state of reality, we already find many threads of technologies and ideas that form the basis for the things that'll happen in RP1.
I mean to a large degree, second life IS Oasis. It's just limited to a single planet, with early 00s graphics, instead of thousands of planets with hyper real graphics.