Sounds somewhat like the movie strange days from 1999, about a former vice cop who now sells addictive, virtual reality clips that allow a user to experience the recorded sensations of others.
Imagine living life as the movie “They Live” and coming to the realization we’ve been living in a virtual world with ‘rose colored glasses’...
Sadly too many people have internet addictions.
Another boost to the porn industry. Look for child porn to be legal because it’s digital. Need a vacation fix? Go to Hawaii without leaving the house. Explore mountains, deserts, undersea or whatever and where ever. This will be more ubiquitous and addictive than cell phones and you know how addicted people are to their cell phones (Don’t leave home without it!). There will be coded messages and subliminal messages that the world is normal. New vaccines/pills are to be accepted without question.
The will to choose will be weakened. Only our overlords will be doing the thinking and their Source will be a Mystery.