Meta AI glasses fail during live demo, ‘I don’t know what happened,’ says a red-faced Mark Zuckerberg

At the annual Meta Connect event on Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg’s company introduced its premium Meta Ray-Ban glasses with a built-in display and the performance-focused Oakley Meta Vanguard glasses.

However, it had a couple of failed demos during the live stream to the embarrassment of CEO Zuckerberg.

Meta Ray-Ban glasses fail at demo

After launching the new Meta Ray-Ban glasses, Zuckerberg connected with food creator Jack Mancuso to showcase how the new glasses could be useful in everyday life.

Mancuso used the glasses to ask for a recipe for a Korean-inspired steak sauce.

Instead of providing step-by-step instructions, the AI on Mancuso's glasses started giving out-of-sequence directions.

"You’ve already combined the base ingredients, so now grate the pear,” the AI insisted.

​Mancuso tried to redirect the AI multiple times, but he ultimately blamed the problem on a “messed-up Wi-Fi” and handed the stage back to an uneasy Zuckerberg.

“The irony of the whole thing is you spend years making technology and then the Wi-Fi on the day catches you," the Meta CEO remarked.

Shortly after that, the spotlight shifted to the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, paired with a neural wristband for hands-free control.

Now that Zuckerberg tried to demo a live video call with Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, chaotic demonstrations happened again.

Despite repeating hand gestures several times, the call wouldn’t connect.

Finally, Bosworth walked on stage, admitting, “This WiFi is brutal.”

Zuckerberg added, “You practice these things like 100 times, and then, you never know what’s going to happen.”

Bosworth said that no one was more frustrated than his team, who now had to figure out why the demonstrations had all gone wrong.

The Meta Ray-Ban Display's glasses offer a limited 20-degree field of view with a resolution of 600 x 600 pixels.

With a brightness ranging from 30 to 5,000 nits, it provides decent visibility in most outdoor conditions, though it can struggle in the brightest sunlight.

Some prescriptions are supported, but only as a built-to-order option.

The external camera matches past Ray-Ban glasses. It has a 12-megapixel sensor but falls short of new non-display models, also introduced on September 17, in video resolution and battery life.

The glasses record 1080p video and last six hours per charge, with the external case providing an additional 30 hours, which is approximately four full recharges.

The wristband, Meta Neural Band, comes in three sizes and offers 18 hours of battery life.

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