Meta CTO explains the reason for its embarrassing good glasses demo failures

When Mark Zuckerberg introduced Meta’s newest good glasses on the firm’s Connect 2025 keynote, he encountered two glitches that prevented him from correctly demonstrating among the units’ options. Now, Meta’s Chief Expertise Officer, Andrew Bosworth, mentioned in an AMA on Instagram that they had been demo failures and never precise product failures. The first glitch passed off in the midst of a reside demo with a cooking content material creator, who requested Reside AI for directions on easy methods to make a Korean-inspired steak sauce on his Meta glasses. As an alternative of giving him detailed directions, his glasses’ AI skipped forward by a number of steps and continued glitching. The chef informed Zuckerberg that the “WiFi is perhaps tousled” within the venue.

Bosworth mentioned, nonetheless, that it was not the case. Apparently, when the chef mentioned “Hey Meta, begin Reside AI,” it fired up each single Meta Ray-Ban’s Reside AI within the constructing. And for the reason that occasion was all in regards to the firm’s good glasses, there have been a whole lot of them within the venue on the time. The corporate had additionally routed Reside AI’s visitors to its dev server to isolate it, however it ended up routing the Reside AI visitors of everybody’s glasses within the constructing to its server. “We DDoS’d ourselves, mainly,” he mentioned. He continued that it did not occur at rehearsal, as a result of there weren’t as many individuals carrying the glasses after they examined it out.

Zuckerberg additionally bumped into a problem when he tried demonstrating taking WhatsApp video calls on the Meta Ray-Ban Display. The viewers may see him getting calls on the glasses’ HUD, however he could not reply them to begin the decision. Bosworth mentioned that it was attributable to a “never-before-seen bug” that had put the show to sleep on the very on the spot that the notifications got here in that somebody was calling. Even after Zuckerberg awoke the show, there was no choice to reply the decision. The CTO mentioned Meta had by no means come throughout that bug earlier than the demo and that it has since been fastened. “You guys know we will do video calling… we acquired WhatsApp, we all know easy methods to do video calling,” he mentioned, however admitted that it was a missed alternative to have the ability to present on stage that the characteristic really works.