Hyperreality.

A hyper reality is used to describe ones inability to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality, this issue has been brought about more so due to advances in technology in today's societies.

Our generation have witnessed the online community expand throughout the world in an unbelievable way, taking the gaming industry to another level, with people of all ages, genders and races taking part of this hyper reality. It truly is the most daunting case of hyper reality in today’s society, Call of Duty being a main supplier, a game in which you choose your class of solider, i.e. Sniper, SMG Specialist etc, and go into combat with fellow gamers, each individual entering under a completely different persona. This hyper reality is unmatched; you can join online games in a matter of minutes playing people from all over the world entering into a new era of competition. The more troubling side to it however, billions of people are spending money every day, buying weapons, maps and upgrades, purchasing but pixels on a screen which have no value what so ever out of context. But still this isn’t the problem, there have been more and more cases recently of people dying due to playing games for too long, a man named Chris Staniforth unfortunately died from a blood clot due to being in the same position for too long surely there is nothing good to come from this hyper reality people seem to be getting caught up in, people need to always be able to distinguish between reality and hyper reality other wise we will end up with more and more cases like Chris’s.