In this case, you are in front of a video camera with a blank background behind you. It's hard to communicate, in print, the look and feel of entering virtual worlds. Having tried, however, to make strange things familiar, it might be instructive at this point to make some familiar things strange. Text simulates thought. It's an artifact, representing with its own particular richness and its own unique limitations the ineffably complex workings of the human mind going about its business of making sense of things.
Text is a version of the thought that the text represents.
It's a working model of what's on your mind. Text is virtual thought. Now consider this. A word processor creates virtual paper. The technology, in fact, fills a new medium with an old content.