It’s the busiest shopping season of the year, but one item that doesn’t appear to be flying off store shelves is Meta Platforms’s Quest brand of virtual-reality headsets. Part of the reason is that many shoppers aren’t comfortable trying one on in a store. From a report: The headsets are prone to collect dirt and grime and smear your makeup. During the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, people were especially resistant to put them on in stores, even though Meta paid to have cleaners on hand to sanitize the headsets between each use, said a former Meta employee who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly and asked not to be identified. <\/p>\n
The health emergency is over, but many people are still weirded out by the idea of putting on a VR headset in public. Meta sells the Quest in the US through the stores of mobile carriers like AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon. The thinking was, people are already trying out and buying other gadgets there. But picking up a phone that other people have touched feels different than strapping something to your face that other people have strapped to theirs. In-store sales of Quest headsets at mobile carriers’ locations are very low, according to former employees of Reality Labs, the division that builds Meta’s VR products.<\/p>\n
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