A transcendent perspective brought about by technology . Hollywood scripts have frequently used Virtual Reality as a device to give a character, and the audience, privileged knowledge versus others. The idea is that he with the goggles sees farther. Computer scientists like to think of the whole world as a big computer or collection of computer-organisms like trees or humans. This explains both sides of Virtual Reality as a pop metaphor.
Virtual Reality is transcendent, because if reality is digital, it is programmable.
Everything becomes possible. You can enjoy a universe as varied as dreams AND still share it with other people who are plugged into the equipment, instead of being trapped in your own head. To all those connected, a tree can suddenly transform into a sparkling waterfall. On the other hand, if reality is digital, everything is the same as everything else. In other societies, the phrase might merely suggest the degree to which multiple minds contain mutually coherent models of the world.