The parent company of Facebook and Instagram has announced the Meta Store, which will be its first attempt at selling its physical products — including the Quest 2 virtual reality headset and Portal video calling device — directly to consumers in person.
On Monday, Meta announced the Meta Store, which will be the company's first attempt at selling its physical products — including the Quest 2 virtual reality headset and Portal video calling device — directly to consumers in person. The store will also offer demos of the Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses that were developed with Ray-Ban, but customers who want to buy them will be directed to a Ray-Ban website to do so, Meta said.
It is, in part, an effort to get consumers more familiar with Meta's plans for a so-called"metaverse" —- a sci-fi concept that envisions, essentially, an immersive version of the internet, which the company spent billions of dollars on last year via Facebook Reality Labs. Read MoreIn a blog post on Monday, Meta said the store will let people demo various products and will include a VR space that lets customers try apps such as Beat Saber and Real VR Fishing.
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