Katie Strick tries a VR headset at Meta’s HQ in King’s Cross
(Picture: Tara Moller)At Meta’s new 11-floor megalithic tech palace in King’s Cross, the Prince of Wales is demoing a VR headset while his wife, the Duchess of Cornwall, stares at me through a pair of Ray-Bans. Which would be surreal enough without the additional fact that they’re connected video-capturing Ray-Bans called Ray-Ban Stories, which means she’s actually filming me too.
“The only problem is it makes me feel totally dizzy, like I’m about to be sick,” our future king tells Frankie, Meta’s demonstrator, who is in charge of showing us all the brand’s new VR headset, the Meta Quest 2. Later, I try the headset for myself and am transported to Machu Picchu in Peru.
