<\/p>\n Meta Opens LA Store To Sell Smart Glasses & Quest Headsets<\/p>\n Meta just opened a store in LA, its second location after Burlingame, to demo and sell its smart glasses and Quest headsets.<\/p>\n According to Meta, the Meta Lab section of Best Buy is a “sleek, roughly 900-square-foot store-in-store designed for hands-on discovery” of its Quest headsets and smart glasses.<\/p>\n Meta has sold its hardware in Best Buy for over a decade now, but with a few exceptions, it’s mostly been handled by Best Buy employees, and, in our experience, not particularly well<\/a>.<\/p>\n In contrast, Meta says the upcoming Meta Lab sections of Best Buy will be staffed by “Meta Sales Specialists” experienced in the products and able to offer personalized fittings.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The VR Retail Experience Needs A Hard Reboot<\/p>\n VR retail needs a hard reboot. Trying out a headset for the first time should not be like this.<\/p>\n For Quest, this means a “guided immersive demo”.<\/p>\n “Experience your favorite game or movie in theater mode, or the latest HIIT workout like you\u2019ve never experienced it before”, Meta writes<\/a> when describing the VR demo.<\/p>\n For smart glasses, the store section will include an “expansive assortment” of styles, and Meta Ray-Ban Display with Meta Neural Band will be available as a guided demo too.<\/p>\n The first Best Buy stores to get a Meta Lab section will be San Bernardino, CA<\/a> and San Carlos, CA<\/a>, both opening this Friday.<\/p>\n They will be followed by Roseville, MN, Woodland Park, NJ, Greenville, SC, and Columbus, OH later in the summer.<\/p>\n By the end of 2026, Meta claims there will be 50 Meta Labs in Best Buy stores across the US and Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta is opening its own section in 50 Best Buy stores across the US & Canada where it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[64,63,105,238,239,240],"class_list":["post-738151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/2a\/2f\/2a2f38f0-4b71-407a-9c7e-18a9e2541980\/content\/images\/thumbnail\/Meta-Lab-397d35cd-afb6-44ca-ae3f-2dec33885c91.png\")
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