What's In An Acronym?

In common parlance, technology is associated with hardware and software, but technology is really an extension of consciousness. There are many artists and scientists that use this other definition of the word as a basis for their work as technologists. This is where the most exciting things are happening.

VR is understood as Virtual Reality, but there are apparently two others: Validated Reality and Vegetal Reality

(From Roy Ascott talk 2007)