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Reality

Reality, in philosophy, is the totality of what exists; metaphysical realism holds it exists mind-independently, opposed by idealism, anti-realism, and semantic challenges from Dummett and Putnam.

Reality (2023 film)

Reality (2023) is Tina Satter's HBO drama, also called a film adaptation of her play Is This a Room, starring Sydney Sweeney as whistleblower Reality Winner; its dialogue is verbatim from the FBI's June 3, 2017 interrogation transcript.

Reality (David Bowie album)

Reality is David Bowie's 2003 studio album, produced with Tony Visconti in New York, his last before a decade-long gap until The Next Day; UK number 3, over 1 million sold, later remastered in 2025.

Reality Awaits

Reality Awaits is the seventh studio album by The Strokes, released July 24, 2026 on Cult/RCA Records, produced by Rick Rubin, recorded in Costa Rica, with nine tracks led by "Going Shopping" and noted for heavy Auto-Tune.

Reality Bites

Reality Bites is a 1994 American romantic comedy-drama directed by Ben Stiller, starring Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, and Stiller as recent college graduates in Houston.

Reality Bites (soundtrack)

Reality Bites (soundtrack): Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to Ben Stiller's 1994 Gen X romantic comedy, released February 1, 1994 on RCA; 14 tracks, notable for Lisa Loeb's "Stay (I Missed You)", the first Billboard #1 by an independent artist.

Reality capture

Reality capture is the non-contact collection of visual and spatial data about objects and environments, using photogrammetry, 3D laser scanning, and LiDAR to produce point clouds and 3D models.

Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model

Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model is a 2026 three-part Netflix docuseries by Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan revisiting ANTM's legacy; Tyra Banks later sued Netflix for defamation over her edited interview.

Reality Club (band)

Reality Club is a Jakarta-based Indonesian indie pop/rock band formed in 2016: Fathia Izzati, Faiz Novascotia Saripudin, Era Patigo, Nugi Wicaksono; four albums including Reality Club Presents… (2023) and Who Knows Where Life Will Take You? (2025).

Reality Defender

Reality Defender is a New York deepfake detection company founded in 2021. It provides probabilistic detection of AI-generated content across audio, video, and text for enterprises.

Reality distortion field

The reality distortion field is an imaginary force field attributed to Steve Jobs, coined by engineers on the Macintosh team in 1981 to describe his persuading anyone of anything.

Reality Kings

Reality Kings is an adult studio subscription network founded in 2000, known for staged "reality porn" formats. Acquired by MindGeek (now Aylo, owned by Ethical Capital Partners since 2023), it operates under Aylo's corporate and trademark structure.

Reality Labs

Reality Labs, formerly Facebook Reality Labs and originating with the 2014 Oculus VR acquisition, is Meta Platforms' division building Quest headsets and Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses.

Reality of Wrestling

Reality of Wrestling is an independent professional wrestling promotion based in Houston, Texas, founded by WWE Hall of Famers Booker T and Sharmell Huffman and billed as the Flagship of Texas Wrestling.

Reality Ranis of the Jungle

Reality Ranis of the Jungle is an Indian all-women survival reality series on Discovery Channel and Discovery+, hosted by Varun Sood, adapted from Reality Queens of the Jungle; 12 former reality stars compete, season 1 in the Himalayas (2024), season 2 on the coast (2025).

Reality shifting

Reality shifting is a practice popularized on TikTok from 2020 in which practitioners attempt to move their consciousness from their current reality into a scripted desired reality, often modeled on fiction like Hogwarts.

Reality television

Reality television (reality TV): unscripted television genre featuring people portraying themselves, rooted in An American Family (1973) and The Real World (1992), breakout wave with Survivor and Big Brother (2000), now a franchised, streaming-era mainstay.

Reality Test

Reality Test is the stage name of Nica Iliuhin, a Russian-born Israeli producer based in Berlin who plays progressive psytrance at festivals like Dreamstate SoCal.

Reality therapy

Reality therapy is a counseling and psychotherapy method developed by William Glasser, built on choice theory and the WDEP system of wants, doing, evaluation, and planning.

REALITY trial (NCT02850107)

REALITY (NCT02850107), the VIVA REALITY study, was a single-arm trial of directional atherectomy before paclitaxel drug-coated balloon angioplasty in 102 patients with long, calcified femoropopliteal lesions: 76.7% 12-month patency, 8.8% provisional stenting.

Reality tunnel

Reality tunnel is a subjective filter of beliefs and cultural conditioning through which an individual interprets the world. It was introduced by Timothy Leary in the 1960s.

Reality Winner

Reality Leigh Winner, born 1991, is an American former Air Force cryptolinguist and NSA contractor who leaked a classified report on Russian election interference to The Intercept in 2017.

Reality Z

Reality Z is a 2020 Brazilian Netflix horror-comedy series, 10 episodes, adapting Charlie Brooker's Dead Set: a zombie apocalypse traps a Big Brother-style reality show's contestants in a Rio de Janeiro studio called Olimpo.

RealityCapture

RealityCapture is a photogrammetry software application that builds 3D models, point clouds, and maps from photos and laser scans, developed by Slovak company Capturing Reality.

Realizability

Realizability is a family of semantic techniques in mathematical logic, introduced by Stephen Cole Kleene in 1945, where a number or program counts as evidence for a statement.

Realization of the SI base units

Realization of the SI base units means the laboratory experiments, known as mises en pratique, that physically produce the SI units from the defining constants fixed in 2019.

REALM (machine learning)

REALM (Retrieval-Augmented Language Model pre-training) is a method from Google Research, introduced at ICML 2020, that integrates a neural knowledge retriever into a language model so it retrieves documents before each prediction.

Realm of New Zealand

Realm of New Zealand: the area under the King of New Zealand, comprising New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau, and the Ross Dependency, defined by the 1983 Letters Patent.

Realm of the Mrnjavčević family

The realm of the Mrnjavčević family was the territory in Macedonia ruled by brothers King Vukašin and Despot Jovan Uglješa, who died fighting the Ottomans at the Battle of Marica in 1371.

Realme (гealme)

Realme (真我) is a Chinese consumer electronics brand making smartphones, tablets, and audio products, founded in 2018 by Sky Li, a former Oppo executive, and reintegrated into Oppo in 2026.