With the latest Oculus demonstration, we see two VR users playing ping pong, fighting with toys, and setting off fireworks—all in virtual reality. It’s the simultaneous nature of the multiplayer that’s really special here, showing how virtual reality can potentially connect people around the world and let them inhabit the same immersive digital world, more closely replicating actually being together in real life.

Many people still associate the the primary purpose of VR with video games. But Facebook will likely focus on the social implications of virtual reality as well, and demos like Toybox by Oculus start to get at why Facebook spent $2 billion on the startup company in the first place.