Meta’s First Physical Store To Open In California

Synopsis: In order to create an excellent virtual space, Meta is investing heavily in the metaverse where people can interact with each other, work, as well as play at the same time.

The world-famous Meta platform is all set to open a physical store, where they will provide a chance to their shoppers to try out different products, including virtual reality headsets and various products as the company is entering into the metaverse mainstream. Meta’s first store will open in a wide area of 1550 square feet at the company campus located in Burlingame, California on May 9. Also, according to the company, the shop will be featuring several products such as the video calling device portal, Quest 2 VR headset, and Ray-Ban’s augmented reality glasses. 

All the products except Ray-Ban glasses will be available at the store as well as they can be bought online from the new shopping tab on meta.com. In order to create an excellent virtual space, Meta is investing heavily in the metaverse where people can interact with each other, work, as well as play at the same time. They are also adding numerous new features to all their hardware devices so that they can serve properly as the access points to the virtual worlds. 

Also as per Meta, 

Through interactive demos, you can make video calls to retail associates with Portal, learn how Ray-Ban Stories can help you stay present with the world around you, and explore the magic of VR with a first-of-its-kind immersive Quest 2 demo.

A few days ago the owner of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company has already started testing tools in order to sell the digital assets and provide an amazing experience within its virtual reality platform that is the Horizon Worlds which is a VR platform launched by Meta last year during the year-end. In the store, one of the largest areas has been secured for the VR headsets along with the Quest 2 ‘display wall’ where people will experience a huge range of Meta’s VR applications and games. 

The store is being created keeping in mind the complete metaverse and here the visitors will be able to try very famous, Virtual Reality games including Real VR Fishing, Beat Saber, GOLF+, and many others on the huge curved LED screen which will be displaying the same thing that the user can see in their headset. The visitors will be given a 30-second mixed reality clip of their demo experience in order to share their amazing experience with friends. 

However, Meta has also received a bit of experience from some of the application developers due to their decision of charging around a 47.5% fee to creators of digital experiences and assets. Also, the shoppers which are continuously tracking the progress of the shop are waiting eagerly for the newer version of the Quest 2 VR headset, which is most likely to be released in the second quarter.