Meta Will Open Up Physical Metaverse Store In San Francisco

Meta will open up a physical metaverse store in San Francisco and will feature a wall-to-wall curved LED Screen that shows what users can see using the VR headsets so let’s read more today in our cryptocurrency news today.

The social media giant Facebook’s Meta company will open a retail store in a physical metaverse store in San Francisco offering hardware for virtual reality space. In a Monday announcement, Meta said it will open up a retail store in Burlingame California and will provide interactive demos for the company’s hardware products like virtual reality headsets, smart glasses, and video communications displays. The store will be located on the Meta campus and will feature a wall-to-wall LED screen that displays what the users can see using Meta headsets. On the news that Meta will open up a physical metaverse store, the head of the store Martin Gilliard noted:

“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. We’re not selling the Metaverse in our store, but hopefully people will come in and walk out knowing a little bit more about how our products will help connect them to it.”

Facebook rebranded to Meta in 2021 and said that it focuses on expanding beyond social media and announced its metaverse vision for connecting online social experiences and the physical world. The tech giants including apple already have brick-and-mortar stores across the world but Facebook has roughly 2.9 billion users that didn’t have the opportunity to enter the company’s retail store since it was founded in 2004. in the metaverse, however, most companies will scoop up virtual properties with the electronics giant Samsung launching a metaverse store in Decentraland. The reports also suggested there are major retailers like Walmart that are preparing to go Meta as well.

As recently reported, Former Facebook product manager now whistleblower – Frances Haugen trashed the company last year when she exposed thousand of documents accusing the social media giant of spreading misinformation. The files revealed sensitive content which ranged from human trafficking to nationalist groups gatherings and COVID-19 vaccine misinformation. She said that the time Facebook prioritizes profit over the well-being of its users. Haugen invested in crypto and she had her eyes on the Metaverse after the company rebranded to Meta and aims to pursue virtual world domination plans.