What Is Real?
With the advance of virtual reality, this question becomes more complicated while simultaneously more important. Paul Milgram and Fumio Kishino's 1994 paper explored the idea that the border between real and virtual is not binary — it's a continuum from fully real to fully virtual, with augmented and mixed reality in between.
The reality-virtuality continuum — where does your experience fall?
technology reality philosophy
Source: George Strakhov (2020)