Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, November 5th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough.

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So if you want to try to sell people on the Metaverse, might you try to convince them that

it's the future by reaching out to them in the meat space.

That seems to be the thinking over at Meta,

where sources are telling the New York Times

discussions are happening about potentially

opening retail stores worldwide to showcase

its VR and AR devices.

Quote, the aim of the stores is to make the world more open and connected,

according to the company documents viewed by the Times.

They are also intended to spark emotions like company documents experimenting with

head sets in a quote judgment-free journey according to the documents

discussions about physical stores predated

Facebook's rebranding by many months with serious work on the

initiative having started last year, the people said.

And the project which is still in development may not proceed, they said.

But if Meta moves forward with stores, it would be a first for a tech giant that has existed

largely digitally with more than 3.5 billion

people using its apps such as Facebook, Instagram,

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