“This is probably the largest communal screening of a virtual reality film ever,” said New York Times Magazine editor Jake Silverstein, as people began to fumble with cardboard visors. True, but it was also only one of several firsts represented at the premiere of the Times’ first virtual reality film, “The Displaced,” last Thursday in Manhattan.

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