What is Live and Direct

The expression live and direct communicates that an event takes place at the same time it is being viewed. It is normally used to remember that what is happening is not Recorded previously. Saying something happens live and direct is a way of emphasizing a show or sporting event.

Thus, if someone sees a video of a concert through a YouTube, his experience it is totally different from witnessing the concert on site. As is logical, what is known live and direct is something more intense and with greater authenticity. We could say that psychologically it is a more authentic experience and with greater value emotional.

A live and direct concert

Suppose someone buys a ticket to witness a performance by his favorite group live. His individual experience is accompanied by a series of sensations: the live sound, the atmosphere of the place, the tumult of the people, how hot or cold you feel, personal relationships during the event and, in short, reality as it is.

Real world versus virtual world

The concepts of the real world and the virtual world express different realities but it is increasingly difficult to differentiate them. If someone is fond of video games he is participating in a real way in an unreal world. In fact, the video game will be more attractive the greater its veracity. Reality and fiction are two dimensions that are losing their traditional differences. Thus, it is evident that the viewer watches a film and "gets into" it as a psychological mechanism to have a personal experience. However, if someone makes a trip through google maps that route is real and fictitious at the same time, since it is in that place but through a recreation, of a Format unreal.

We can have many experiences on demand: in virtual version, in the form of recording or live and direct. All three alternatives are legitimate and perfectly compatible

However, it is considered that what is live and direct is "more true". We must not forget, on the other hand, that live and direct experiences are little more than 100 years old, when the fiction of the movie theater allowed to know reality in another way.

The difficult border between reality and fiction is revealed in Second Life, a virtual world in three dimensions that allow users to have a life other than their own, that is, a life parallel to the one they have.

In some way, we all have a "double life", as we have friends in everyday life or on Facebook and we meet friends in a bar or we are part of a forum In the net. It is not surprising that sometimes we have some confusion and believe that the virtual is equivalent to what we experience live and direct.

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