Mystical writers tell us this world is a sort of virtual reality, itself. Thus playing video games within this world is a double virtuality. Then I got to thinking, what if you played YOURSELF in a video game, what if you uploaded your picture? The technology for this presumably already exists. You would not be virtually someone else, but virtually you. And none of it would be real.
There is some interesting seed to be culled from this image of play acting yourself, though. I don’t presently know what it is.