What is the significance of the ‘real’ (physical) thing and object and the virtual object and thing?

Well, like Ryan Haliday says (Ready Player One), it is hard to get a good meal in VR. Thus certainly sleep, food, shelter, fresh air, and all that jazz is far superior in embodied (‘real’) reality (also a nice cup of coffee).

But when it comes to ‘possessions’ or physical spaces … do we have a *preference* between the ‘real’ and the virtual?