{"id":704479,"date":"2026-06-15T00:17:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T00:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/704479\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T00:17:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T00:17:31","slug":"vr-headset-explodes-while-charging-in-frankfort-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/704479\/","title":{"rendered":"VR headset explodes while charging in Frankfort home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">FRANKFORT, Maine (WABI) &#8211; A Meta Quest 3 VR headset exploded while charging in a Frankfort home Thursday, causing a flash fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Frankfort Fire officials said no one was wearing the goggles at the time of the explosion. The headset was charging on a nightstand when it exploded and caused a flash fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The homeowner was outside when the explosion happened and ran inside after hearing the blast. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Frankfort Fire officials said they called the Fire Marshal\u2019s Office and Department of Environmental Protection to investigate if there is a problem with the headsets.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WABI. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRANKFORT, Maine (WABI) &#8211; A Meta Quest 3 VR headset exploded while charging in a Frankfort home Thursday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[304352,74,179,509,180,4769],"class_list":["post-704479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-meta-quest-3-vr","tag-technology","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr","tag-vr-headset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}