Our whole universe may actually be a 2-D hologram virtual reality because physicists found that some nature of the universe (like in black hole) is strangely 2-D like.
My recent VR experience only strengthened me with such belief. VR is exactly a fake but like-real 3D virtual reality which was projected to us in 2D through some clever programming. More computing power will eventually make VR made by us close enough to reality. Then combined with procedural generated universe (I strongly recommend any VR player to try The Space Engine game) and powerful AI (gosh it can already beat human in Go!),
in 20-30 years we may build a simulated VR universe with smart enough virtual population and simulated society. Then if we can simulate senses other than seeing and hearing, VR will create a world where real people can comfortably “dream in”. I already have a vision how VR can greatly help those people bound to bed by their illness or disability. Sooner or later even normal people may want to live in VR at least for a while. Some underprivileged may even want to live a more decent life in the VR world.
All these will all happen very soon because all we need now for better VR is calculation power (even for building nose, tongue or skin sensors), which we will surely gain much with more time. In comparison with other technical visions and revolutions such as automatic driving, VR is much more futuristic and philosophical.
Then suppose there’s already an advanced civilization, certainly building our universe in VR won’t be too hard, and they’ve probably already built many. This itself is already an argument why by mathematic probability, we have much higher chance to live in a VR universe than live in a real physical one.
If our universe is indeed a VR, then lots of things can be explained much easier, including major religious gods, legends, and beliefs. Also, many fundamentals in physics will have better reasons, including the fixed speed of light (the information transmission speed limit for a VR) or quantum physics (limited calculation power won’t allow VR to simulate scales less than Planck Distance, and no reality will be calculated for you unless you actually observe anything to trigger the quantum collapse),…,etc.
Thanks to MSFS, I first time in my whole life see the true power and potential of VR, and believe more than ever that we all already live in a VR Matrix created by the Almighty.