Meta Lab Pop-ups Will Let You Try On The Company's New Smart Glasses For Yourself

Following nan announcement of its first smart glasses pinch a built-in display, Meta is opening respective temporary unit locations wherever you'll beryllium capable to demo nan Meta Ray-Ban Display, their Meta Neural Band controller and nan remainder of nan company's Reality Labs products. These caller "Meta Lab" locations will connection different measurement to spot nan company's caller $799 smart glasses, which presently aren't disposable for acquisition without an in-person demo and fitting.

For nan rollout of nan Meta Ray-Ban Display, Meta Lab locations will beryllium disposable to sojourn successful Las Vegas starting connected October 16, Los Angeles starting connected October 24 and New York starting connected November 13. Meta besides says willing Bay Area customers will  beryllium capable to demo and acquisition nan caller smart glasses astatine nan company's existing Meta Store location successful Burlingame, which has been rebranded arsenic a "Meta Lab."

While nan entreaty of having nan face-mounted camera and speakers of nan Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses is easy to understand, Meta intelligibly believes adding a show into nan operation changes that calculus. The institution says liking successful nan caller glasses is portion of nan logic it's opening these caller unit locations. "Demand for in-person demos of Meta Ray-Ban Display and nan Meta Neural Band is strong, pinch appointments successful galore awesome cities already booked retired done mid-October," according to Meta. Interestingly, Meta besides plans to trial trading its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses from vending machines, not dissimilar Snap did pinch its Spectacles.

These caller Meta Labs subordinate Ray-Ban, Verizon, Best Buy and LensCrafters stores arsenic nan only charismatic places wherever you tin effort Meta's caller wearable. It's difficult to opportunity if request for demos will construe into existent sales, but intelligibly nan affirmative buzz nan company's Connect showing was capable to drum up has caught immoderate people's interest. You tin book a demo astatine a Meta Lab done the company's website.