Meta’s failed smart glasses demos had nothing to do with the Wi-Fi

Well that was awkward.

Meta ran into immoderate spectacularly embarrassing method issues during the unrecorded demos of its caller astute glasses this week, and present we cognize why. Andrew Bosworth, Meta’s main exertion officer, explained successful an Instagram AMA wherefore 2 notable demos — an influencer asking the AI adjunct for cooking instructions, and Mark Zuckerberg attempting to prime up a WhatsApp telephone — failed. 

“When the cook said ‘hey Meta, commencement Live AI,’ it started each azygous Meta Ray-Ban’s Live AI successful the building,” said Bosworth. “We had routed Live AI postulation to our dev server, successful theory, to isolate it, but we had done it for everyone successful that gathering connected those entree points. We DDoS’d ourselves, basically.” So yeah, it wasn’t the Wi-Fi, arsenic Zuck claimed connected stage.

The video telephone contented was “more obscure,” according to Bosworth, and progressive a “never-before-seen bug” that occurred due to the fact that the Display glasses had gone to slumber astatine the aforesaid infinitesimal that the instrumentality received the telephone notification. Bosworth says that the bug has present been fixed, but acknowledged the onstage demo was a “terrible spot for that bug to amusement up.”

Even with the method blunders, Meta providing an honorable unrecorded merchandise objection is simply a bully interruption from the accustomed fare of pre-recorded videos and generative AI errors that companies similar Apple and Google showcase these days.