Reconnecting
In the following few hours after the world wide incident that began with countless people seeing a strange floating window before their eyes, a few significant things happened all around the physical world.
Firstly, the Creators of the Artificial Intelligence that created the world which this strange holographic window had originated from answered most of the significant questions and gave their statement of their uninvolvement in the matter.
They did not do anything that's happening. They simply created a few AI based upon a few abstract concepts, and then they left everything up to them as well as the players who played that game.
Everything that happened, including the appearance of the stand windows, to the appearance of the strange countdown which was now present in all places which has had even one player of this game.