Meta, the parent company of social media giant Facebook, will open a retail store on the San Francisco peninsula offering hardware for the virtual reality space.
Monday, Meta announced that it will open a store in Burlingame, California on May 9 to offer interactive demonstrations of the company’s hardware products, such as virtual reality headsets, video communication displays and smart glasses. The store, which will be located on the Meta campus – its headquarters is in Menlo Park – will feature a curved wall-to-wall LED screen that will show what users see using Meta headsets.
“The Meta Store is going to help people make that connection to how our products can be the gateway to the metaverse in the future,” said Martin Gilliard, the store manager. “We’re not selling the metaverse in our store, but we hope people walk in and out knowing a little more about how our products will help them connect to it.”
Facebook changed its name to Meta in October 2021, saying at the time that its focus was expanding beyond social media and later announcing its vision of the metaverse to connect social experiences online and the real world. Although tech giants like Apple have brick-and-mortar stores around the world, Facebook’s roughly 2.9 billion users haven’t had a chance to walk into a company store since its founding in 2004.
In the metaverse, however, many companies are acquiring virtual properties, and electronics giant Samsung launched a metaverse store in the world powered by Decentraland in January. Reports have also suggested that large retailers like Walmart could also be preparing to enter the metaverse.
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