Meta Lab<\/a>, wants to be less \u201cstore\u201d and more of a show-and-tell for Meta\u2019s products, a hands-on playground for every wearable, headset and sci-fi-adjacent gadget coming from Reality Labs.<\/p>\nIf you\u2019ve somehow resisted trying Ray-Ban Meta glasses until now, the new space removes all excuses. Visitors can go hands-on with the full lineup, including Oakley Meta HSTN, the forthcoming Oakley Meta Vanguard and the Meta Ray-Ban Display, the company\u2019s first glasses with an in-lens display. Plus, the Meta Neural Band, Meta Quest 3 and 3S and seemingly every other gadget Mark Zuckerberg has gestured onstage in the last year. Staff are on-hand for demos, try-ons and explanations, but half the fun is discovering what the glasses can do for yourself.<\/p>\n
But what really sets the Fifth Avenue edition apart is its theme: a full Dogtown-era skate aesthetic with black-and-white Bill Eppridge photography, along with custom cases, overboxes and lens cloths that nod to skate culture. Even the interactive AI prompts carry the motif through.<\/p>\n
Like the 20,000-square-foot Melrose Avenue flagship in L.A., the New York store has a spot to customize lenses, a station for on-site engraving and plenty of space to try the hardware without feeling like you\u2019re in a tech museum. Plus, if you were hoping to snag the limited-edition Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarer (Gen 2) Matte Transparent with Brown Mirror Gold lenses, Meta Lab locations are the only place to get them.<\/p>\n
Hours are Monday through Saturday from 10am to 7pm and Sundays from 11am to 6pm. Keep in mind that no announcement has yet been made regarding the pop-up’s official closure\u2014but we suggest you get there ASAP to experience it in all its virtual glory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fifth Avenue has a new shade in its crayon box and it\u2019s very much Meta blue.\u00a0 The tech…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[14368,18,19,17,104394,797,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-185454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-categories-shopping","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news-tech","13":"tag-shopping","14":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115565699181628970","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}