Last week’s Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses demo had some issues, which I mentioned last week. After I reported this, and many others did as well, Meta came forward and their CTO, Andrew Bosworth did what anyone would do… say it was just a demo failure, and not a product failure. It’s a nuanced answer, but the explanation continued by explaining that the massive amount of smart glasses and tech present in the venue all heard the command “Hey Meta, start Live AI”, and a massive amount of traffic hit the servers with real world simulation of a distributed denial of service attack. It’s like telling everyone to exit Disneyland at once, and packing the limited exits, streets, and highways due to an onslaught of vehicles. There was mention of a previously unseen bug as well. I’ll rank the explanations as truly plausible. Concerning, but still plausable. Now the 6 hour battery life still isn’t thrilling me.
When Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta’s latest smart glasses at the company’s Connect 2025 keynote, he encountered two glitches that prevented him from properly demonstrating some of the devices’ features.
Source: Meta CTO explains the cause of its embarrassing smart glasses demo failures
