A big thing happened last week, and hardly anybody noticed: The first mainstream social virtual world came into existence.

Oculus VR, the virtual reality company owned by Facebook, released an app called the Oculus Social alpha. It’s for users of the Samsung Gear VR virtual reality headset, which uses a Samsung phone as the screen and brains of the headset and is based on Oculus technology.

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A user wears the Samsung Gear VR headset.

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Source: Computer World

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