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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.

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Meta's $799 AI glasses debut went wrong when live demos malfunctioned onstage, leaving Zuckerberg fumbling with the technology before a global audience.
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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.

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Mark Zuckerberg's $799 AI glasses were launched at a live demo at the Meta Connect 2025 keynote in California.
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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."

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Mark Zuckerberg, left, and Andrew Bosworth wear Meta Ray-Ban Display AI glasses at the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, Calif., Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025.
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Instead, the assistant repeatedly skipped ahead, refusing to answer the simple question, "What do I do first?"

After failed attempts, Mancuso blamed the Wi-Fi before tossing the segment back to Zuckerberg.

The second stumble came during a showcase of the Neural Band. Zuckerberg successfully sent and received a text from Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth.

But when Bosworth attempted to initiate a WhatsApp video call, the glasses would not pick it up.

Zuckerberg fumbled with the interface before giving up. Bosworth eventually walked onstage, joking about "brutal Wi-Fi" as the audience laughed.

"You practice these things like a hundred times, and then you never know what’s gonna happen," Zuckerberg said.

Despite the onstage glitches, Zuckerberg framed the glasses as a leap forward in AI-powered personal technology.

He emphasized that the devices represent Meta’s vision of a future where wearable AI assistants anticipate needs and handle tasks with minimal user effort.

"Mark has enthusiasm, and so he was willing to take the risk, but, unfortunately, in a couple of instances, it didn't go his way," added Ulanoff.

"I'm sure Mark Zuckerberg felt extremely uncomfortable, but I give him credit for maintaining his calm and making a joke about it all."

Fox News Digital reached out to Meta for comment.

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Here are some clips from the live demonstration:

 
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You know how I cook a recipe I like?

I sift through the 3 pages of backstory I don't need, copy the recipe thats hidden at the bottom of the page onto an index-card with a pen, then go to the kitchen without any technology in tow and cook the goddamn food.

We don't need smart fridges, chef glasses or AI spyware telling us how to cook. Its such an easy task that 99.9999999% of all recipes can be fit onto an index card (like grandma used to do.)

Heres to the Kike Zuckerberg getting one of those turbo-cancers and dying a very painful death this year.
 
What a retarded excuse. You have a net worth of a quarter trillion and won't even get some training in public speaking despite insisting on holding live demos at those retard-shows. That's not even incompetence, but of course the dude of "dumb fucks" fame would make up some mystical Wi-Fi issue instead of approaching it with some humor like Gates or Jobs would. You just know he's fuming inside, the same way any time he says something it gets leaked out.

 
yes, the wifi works fine the day before the event when you're the only guy there
shockingly (unless you've gone to any gathering of a dozen or more people for any purpose) a lot of people in one room strains wifi
 
Combustion Engine said:
What a retarded excuse. You have a net worth of a quarter trillion and won't even get some training in public speaking despite insisting on holding live demos at those retard-shows. That's not even incompetence, but of course the dude of "dumb fucks" fame would make up some mystical Wi-Fi issue instead of approaching it with some humor like Gates or Jobs would. You just know he's fuming inside, the same way any time he says something it gets leaked out.

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Dude, hes a jew. Isn't this clear to everyone yet? Like not joking, dude is a literal jew.

I LITERALLY knew of a Jew that once spent an hour arguing with an internet provider over a .15 cent billing error. 15 cents. It'd be comical if it didn't really happen. The stereotype of the cheap Kike is very, very, very, very real.
 
Headdot Reddot said:
You know how I cook a recipe I like?

I sift through the 3 pages of backstory I don't need, copy the recipe thats hidden at the bottom of the page onto an index-card with a pen, then go to the kitchen without any technology in tow and cook the goddamn food.

We don't need smart fridges, chef glasses or AI spyware telling us how to cook. Its such an easy task that 99.9999999% of all recipes can be fit onto an index card (like grandma used to do.)
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"B-b-b-but I don't have tiiime to take the 2:30 minutes to write down a simple recipe! I am always somehow inexplicably and vaguely busy in ways I can't explain that allows me to get out of doing stuff that isn't consuming slop and scrolling the TikyTok.'

Call me pessimistic, but this is probably the vapid goldfish brained type these glasses are for, people who have become slaves to this laziness-inducing technology who just want to sit on their butts and have an AI direct them.
 
XYZpdq Jr. said:
yes, the wifi works fine the day before the event when you're the only guy there
shockingly (unless you've gone to any gathering of a dozen or more people for any purpose) a lot of people in one room strains wifi
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I mean maybe if you're a fucktard. Hell if you ask my old boss when I worked IT I was a fucktard. Even I could solve this problem. Anything the size of an event like this is running on 2.4ghz, it's a simple matter of range and penetrability. You stick a 5ghz (or even 6ghz because that's apparently a thing now and these glasses have it) router in the fucking podium and the only device is your fancy little showpiece. When you've got Meta's fuck-you money you can big dick your way into making it happen regardless of what organizers prefer.
Breadbassket said:
"Apple no longer does live presentations at their keynotes for this reason,"
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Food for thought: when was the last time someone whose livelihood didn't depend on it was excited about a keynote presentation? When did someone that wasn't paid by the company to fawn over it have something good to say? Say what you will about Steve Jobs but he understood how much more it meant to actually show the damn thing off. He also knew the secret if you couldn't do something like I posited above: you fake it.
 
Anyone caught wearing this spyware ball & chain needs a fist to the face. That aside it's interesting how Zucky still hasn't made peace with the fact he's basically done and only nominally one of the "greats." Mark my words, he'll be the first of the techbro oligarchs to become totally irrelevant. His only claim to fame was Facebook and that's all over now and it's never coming back. He literally has nothing else to do. It's genuinely over. Also this crap will never be a thing.

There's also something else I'm wondering about. AI slop. Does he not realize that his beloved AI renders even the corpse of Facebook and indeed all social media completely irrelevant? The moment AI slop and bots started to proliferate social media lost all meaning, unless you're part of tightly knit niche subcultures where outsiders (and thus bots) are easily recognized and discarded.
 
The-Mad-Asshatter said:
"B-b-b-but I don't have tiiime to take the 2:30 minutes to write down a simple recipe! I am always somehow inexplicably and vaguely busy in ways I can't explain that allows me to get out of doing stuff that isn't consuming slop and scrolling the TikyTok.'

Call me pessimistic, but this is probably the vapid goldfish brained type these glasses are for, people who have become slaves to this laziness-inducing technology who just want to sit on their butts and have an AI direct them.
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If you can't write down the recipe you likely can't be certain you have all the ingredients anyways. This is vaporware-solutions looking for a problem. Zuck is famous for it at this point (even FB wasn't really needed and numerous alternatives existed before it.)
 
Headdot Reddot said:
Dude, hes a jew. Isn't this clear to everyone yet? Like not joking, dude is a literal jew.

I LITERALLY knew of a Jew that once spent an hour arguing with an internet provider over a .15 cent billing error. 15 cents. It'd be comical if it didn't really happen. The stereotype of the cheap Kike is very, very, very, very real.
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But it's not about spending the money, it's about your own distorted image. Zucc purchased dozens of houses around his residence for a total well over an hundred million of dollars so he wouldn't have neighbors, clearly having a literal bunker underneath over 7k sqft big wasn't enough for him. Most of those tech CEOs are all insane psychopaths (or indians), they don't get enough attention and hatred.
 
Combustion Engine said:
But it's not about spending the money, it's about your own distorted image. Zucc purchased dozens of houses around his residence for a total well over an hundred million of dollars so he wouldn't have neighbors, clearly having a literal bunker underneath over 7k sqft big wasn't enough for him. Most of those tech CEOs are all insane psychopaths (or indians), they don't get enough attention and hatred.
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Sure, which is why an extermination campaign must begin immediately, similar to how we all agreed smallpox must be exterminated.
 
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