Philosophical problems of the Metaverse. How real is the Virtual World and how Virtual is the real one?

With this article, the authors propose to temporarily complete the cycle of texts devoted to metaverses and virtual reality – before "retiring to the study room" to systematize new data and new phenomena in this area, because in any study, the time naturally comes to test the hypothesis. This does not mean avoiding the study of the problem – on the contrary, it is about the development of research together with the qualitative development of the topic itself. And the fact that there is a qualitative change in the subject and process of research is evident from several signs that the authors have tried to reveal in this article.