Glitched Perfection:

This comprehensive study advances the ontological furnace framework to interrogate how cinematic gaming’s pursuit of photorealism transmutes human presence into commodified simulacra. Through rigorous comparative analysis of Erica’s filmed virtuality and Detroit: Become Human’s uncanny prison across four ontological dimensions— Organic Crucible, Fracturing, Forged Replica, and Commodified Specter—we demonstrate how both production paradigms generate Baudrillardian third-order simulacra that unde