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Meta opens first physical store in California

Visitors can test out products such as Ray-Ban Stories, Meta's AR glasses and sunglasses, along with the Portal video calling gadget and Oculus virtual reality headsets at Meta's first physical store in California

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By AP May 9, 2022 10:46:38 PM IST (Published)

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Meta opens first physical store in California
Facebook parent Meta has opened its first physical store in Burlingame, California to showcase its hardware products such as virtual and augmented reality goggles and glasses.

The store, which is open to the public as of Monday, is made for people who want to test out products like Ray-Ban Stories, Meta's AR glasses and sunglasses, along with the Portal video calling gadget and Oculus virtual reality headsets.
Shoppers still have to order the glasses from Ray-Ban but can buy the other products at the store.
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"Its a very concrete step from moving away from social media and ads that mislead people and elections and spying and data and all those things to a very physical representation of clean, classy, well-designed, cool hardware that makes you go, ah," said Omar Akhtar, research director at Altimeter, a technology investment firm.
Akhtar said he didn't believe in virtual reality until he sat and tried on the Oculus headset for the first time and believes this will be the same for others who are able to put on the goggles and try it out.
Apple pioneered physical retail stores in Silicon Valley and Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, is likely hoping it'll replicate at least some of that success.
"The truth of it is that physical things never went away and they're never going to go away," Akhtar said, adding everybody realizes that even if we are going to step into the virtual world, were going to need to access it with hardware.

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