Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1894786-20170224024655

Hear me out. Yes, it's (so far) a virtual reality. But it was taken from its original form (a training simulation) to an actual world by AIDA using the Darkhold, which contains magical formulas that have already been shown capable of interdimensional travel.

And on the Marvel Studios subreddit, it's been compared to both House of M and Age of X, while I've noticed some similarities to Heroes Reborn.

So I think a case could be made that it actually is an alternate reality of sorts. 