Zizek Virtual Reality Analysis

The topic of Zizek’s talk is not the so called notion of “Virtual Reality”, but according to zizek the more important idea today is to understand the opposite, “The Reality of the Virtual”. Here, to proceed we need to make these two ideas distinct, "Virtual Reality" is a reality that contains the effect of actual reality but it’s not authentic. It's a kind of a simulation, a potent one. On the other hand the reality of the virtual is by which the actual effects of causes, which are not of the real world themselves, are experienced. In simpler terms we try to understand the reality of the virtual as the “real effects caused by something which actually does not exist”.

Now we will see how the game “Swordsman” helps us to understand the idea …show more content…
As the storyline goes ancient china is going through a blood-soaked period. Ten clans have been at war with each other in an attempt to become the most powerful. As a survivor, one wants take vengeance for your people while discovering the mysterious connection between you and the entire martial arts world. So when you play this game for moments of time one forgets his own identity and is directly put into someone’s life where he experience the trauma, the player is going through, and real effects of retribution, payback etc. come into action where the pain of the protagonist becomes greater with respect to the actual player who is sitting outside. The quest to avenge his destroyed village, and the opportunity to adventure with great heroes around the world thrills him. He goes through the whole process of becoming a champion martial artist from a common man. This is where the notion of real effects being caused by something which actually does not exist in nature, which explains the reality of the virtual one experiences while …show more content…
So first the imaginary virtual is the development of the subject when the subject sees himself in another image and then incorporates this into his imaginary integrity, symbolic virtual in case of beliefs can be seen in the game where the hero has feelings of intimacy and attachment with his clan and he is ready to avenge their death. Imaginary real is more related to the human playing the game and there is violence and blood-bath in the game which are difficult to confront and lastly the symbolic real which is the real training that the player is simultaneously