You should read "Ready Player One" if you haven't already. The VR in the book is called Oasis. It might give you some ideas to go with yours:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/009...

Best of luck, man.

Reminds me of a book I just read, Ready Player One: http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-ebook/dp/B004J4WKUQ/r...

The entire thing is like references to stuff like this, heh.

This sounds like its the beginning of OASIS: http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/03078...