Meta breaks ground on virtual reality frontier … with a physical store

Company's push into metaverse' continues with Bay Area shop offering headsets and smart glasses

Meta Platforms is set to open its first physical store where shoppers can try out and buy virtual reality headsets and other gadgets as the company plots a course to take its highly touted metaverse" mainstream.

The 1,550-sq ft Meta Store at the company's Burlingame campus in California opens on 9 May, and will feature demos for its Quest 2 VR headset and video calling device Portal, as well as smart glasses it produces with Ray-Ban, Meta said on Monday.