The article discusses whether one deals with an autonomous virtual realm or merely with an aspect of the mental realm. Virtuality offers more than mere mental promenading. It involves a level of participation that is physical, it involves participant actions based on elements in the virtual world, with effects of some kind. Even though the virtual world is populated by digital representational artifacts, the supposed ephemerality of it is misleading. The feeling of physical presence and active involvement brings about a whole new dimension of interaction that mingles real and virtual elements and lets loose highly charged imagination. A virtual world places before a situation calling for action and which is reactive in making real changes to the state of the situation. It seems evident that the virtual realm is indeed far different from the mental realm, from which it initially grew. The virtual realm offers much in possibilities and in risks. And yet it pales in comparison to the informational realm that will follow. Such is the potential of computing.