Second life:
Is second life hyper real? Is it more real than reality?
Sometimes people think that virtual events have more impact than real ones.
If a construction of reality perhaps even a historical event, can be not just shown but experienced and he many different outcomes explored.
Hyper reality - A better expression of a thing that it's real form.*
E.g. A gender confused male could make an avatar that's female, therefore feeling more like themselves than they actually feel.
Baudrillard who is a well known postmodern philosopher argued the above statement.*
Simulacrum: A copy of something that does not exist. and is something that we have know has existed all along but that we have not expressed sufficiently yet.
There are two kinds of image making, the first is a faithful reproduction, attempted to copy precisely the original. The second is distorted intentionally in order to make the copy to make the copy appear more 'correct' to viewers.
What do these studies on hyper-reality tell us?
* That many of the most realistic media we know are embedded with commercialism eg. virtual games come with hidden advertising.
* That commercialism invades our reality since they only tell us what they want us to know?
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