Watch Sony’s PlayStation VR social experiment captivate an audience of developers

It’s counterintuitive to think that covering your eyes and ears with a screen and speakers can lead to awesome interactions with your friends, but Sony has demonstrated that it’s true.

PlayStation VR engineers took the stage at the Game Developers Conference today to show off a multiplayer experiment built around social interactions. The company did a live demo where three people ran through a low-polygon world with toys, trampolines, and instruments to play with.