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On today's market, we find a whole series of products deprived of their malignant property:coffee without caffein,cream without fat,beer without alcohol...And the list goes on:what about virtual sex as sex without sex,the contemporary redefinition of politics as the art of expert administration as politics without politics,up to today's tolerant liberal multiculturalism as an experience of the Other deprived of its Otherness.Virtual Reality simply generalizes this procedure of offering a product deprived of its substance:it provides reality itself deprived of its substance, of the hard resistant kernel of the Real - just as decaffeinated coffee smells and tastes like real coffee without being the real coffee, Virtual Reality is experienced as reality without being so.