Zuckerberg’s AI glasses live demo fails spectacularly at major tech event
Mark Zuckerberg’s much-anticipated demo of Meta’s new AI glasses tanked Wednesday at the Connect 2025 keynote, with glitches playing out in front of a packed audience.
The device, called Meta Ray-Ban Display is priced at $799 and has been pitched as a breakthrough in wearable "agentic AI" with digital assistants that act on behalf of users.
But Zuckerberg's two demo fails left Meta’s new glasses looking slightly less polished in front of hundreds.
The keynote, held at Meta’s Silicon Valley headquarters, was billed as the coming-out party for the long-rumored "Hypernova" glasses.
At first, Zuckerberg showed off a live view through the new glasses and replied to texts using small wrist motions. But the showcase went south.
Cooking creator Jack Mancuso joined Zuckerberg onstage to try the glasses' new LiveAI feature, which is supposed to walk users through recipes step by step.
One member of the audience, Tech Radar's Lance Ulanoff said Zuckerberg's presentation included some very big fails.
"The AI was clearly confused and jumping around," said Ulanoff.
"The developers tell him to never run live demos, and he just keeps doing it because when you're at a keynote, there are thousands of people all on the Wi-Fi at the same time, which means things can go wrong."
According to Ulanoff, other big tech firms don't do live presentations.
"Apple no longer does live presentations at their keynotes for this reason," he said.
"They have Tim Cook come out for two seconds, so maybe a minute, and then he goes behind the stage, and we watch a pre-made video where they have total control."
Posted on: 9/20/2025 8:49:16 AM
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