One aspect of reality is perceptual reality. It concerns the similarity between perceptions caused by physical stimuli in the real world. Virtual reality accomplishes reality in this sense. On the other hand, there is another aspect to actual experience, namely, social reality. It concerns the similarity between the social commitments created by acts.
Every act inevitably produces some social commitment to others.
Out of the network of such commitments, meanings for acts emerge. Therefore, it can also be stated that social reality concerns the similarity between meanings of acts. Relationship between social reality and perceptual reality. Both aspects of reality are, connected by actual experience, orthogonal as shown in Figure 1. That is, there can be situations that have high perceptual reality and low social reality at the same time, or vice versa.