Source: www.fibre2fashion.com
The Circular Fashion Summit, world’s largest VR summit in fashion, which was scheduled to be held from October 1-4, 2021, has been postponed to December 9-12, 2021. This decision came in the wake of concern regarding Oculus Quest 2 headset causing skin irritations to users. Facebook owned Oculus devices were included in the summit’s ticket offerings to join the Spin metaverse.
“As more people got into VR with Quest 2, we started receiving reports that a very small percentage of Quest 2 customers experienced some skin irritation after using the removable foam facial interface,” Andrew Bosworth, the head of Facebook Reality Labs, said last month. An estimated four million headsets were sold in the US and The US Consumer Product Safety Commission said it had received 5,716 reports of irritation and 45 incidents that had needed medical attention.
After pausing sales, last month Facebook resumed the sales of the Oculus Quest 2 again with a new model that doubles the onboard storage for the same original price (the original model only came with 64GB of memory while the newly released one has 128GB).
A testament to how VR has already become deeply relevant in society, the recall brought disruptions across all industries, including the fashion industry which has seen a new uptake in VR events.
