Meta, formerly known as Facebook, hopes its stores will showcase its Oculus virtual reality products and try to sell people on its idea of a “metaverse.”
But it's not a huge step into retail. Unlike Apple and other tech companies that have stores in heavy foot-traffic areas like shopping malls, the Meta Store will open on May 9 at the company's Burlingame, Calif., campus.
The store will have demo areas where people can try, among other products, its Oculus virtual reality headsets and the apps and games that run on them.over the next year to build the metaverse, a virtual world that CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes will become the standard for working, socializing and gaming. The company is still years away from achieving that goal.
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