Ontological specificity of virtual reality

In the given article the basic ontological principle of existence of virtual reality and the person's presence in it is considered.Virtual reality as a reality is designed for the account of representations and perceptions of virtual images, their consecutive fixing inconsciousness gives the grounds to confirm the process character of virtual reality. A set of virtual images interconnected by one idea,emotion and sense gives life to a virtual event. Such organization of space is similar to real events, in which the person lives anddevelops. However, if we take a full ontological cycle of existence of the person (birth, life and death), it will turn out that virtual realityis deprived of the beginning and outcome of the process. The user cannot be born in virtual reality - this environment generated by theconstant reality is non-material. At the same time, we know that the person is corporal and can exist only by means of a physical body.Virtual reality is also not capable to lead the person to death, despite an abundance of possible fatal outcomes for the virtual body.Virtual reality gives environment the person can be in or leave it any time. In the form of reproduction virtual reality should berecognized and clear. The person, coming to virtual reality, finding quite a real space for him/her and other objects, should understandand realize the place and position in the given reality. With this the person can estimate the characteristics, possibilities and performfurther actions. The user should know what/who s/he is in virtual space, and the features s/he has. Thus, setting aims in virtual reality isimportant for the possibility of correct interpretation of an event. If in physical reality aims and tasks appear and develop gradually ineach person, in virtual reality they can be given to the user initially, before interaction with virtual images and events. Virtual reality alsogives the person the feeling of safety and security, and what is especially valuable - the feeling of invincibility of circumstances over thesubject, where the non-existence condition is simply impossible and is excluded, where the space is designed completely under controlof the founder or user, where there is no birth fact, and the person consciously chooses the shape, gender and age of the character. Lifein virtual reality is infinitely renewed and consistently realized. Proceeding from all the above-said, it becomes obvious, how crucial thegiven ontological specificity is for understanding of virtual reality.

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