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virtual realities

virtual realities is the plural of virtual reality.

Meaning of virtual reality

Noun

virtual reality (countable and uncountable, plural virtual realities)

  1. A computer technology that simulates a real or imagined environment so that the user can interact with it as if physically present.
  2. (broadly, dated) A text adventure or multi-user dungeon.
    • When a player like Shotton's interviewee controls a persona in a MUA and becomes absorbed to such an extent that he is oblivious to the real world, concentrating only on the virtual reality, then the player and his persona fuse; he 'becomes' his persona in that MUA. As far as the player is...1990 December, Richard Bartle, Interactive Multi-User Computer Games
  3. (obsolete) Something conjectured which is effectively coming into existence.

Questions about virtual realities

What is virtual realities the plural of?
Virtual realities is the plural of virtual reality.

Words near virtual realities in the dictionary

  1. virtual private server
  2. virtual private servers
  3. virtual proxies
  4. virtual proxy
  5. virtual real mode
  6. virtual realities
  7. virtual reality
  8. virtual safety car
  9. virtual safety cars
  10. virtual season
  11. virtual seasons

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