{"id":449255,"date":"2025-09-25T01:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T01:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/449255\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T01:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T01:28:11","slug":"watch-meta-virtual-reality-conference-bloopers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/449255\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Meta virtual reality conference bloopers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-fiuwhu\"><a class=\"inline-stock css-1iix00n\" href=\"https:\/\/robinhood.com\/stocks\/META?source=sherwood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meta<\/a> unveiled a host of seemingly innovative products and features at its annual virtual reality conference, Meta Connect, but what stood out were all the mess-ups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-fiuwhu\">Tech product events usually aren\u2019t perfect, but they\u2019re highly rehearsed and controlled environments, so they\u2019re rarely this bad \u2014 especially for a company as big and as practiced as Meta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-fiuwhu\">While the prerecorded videos of the products in use were slick and highly produced, some of the live demos simply failed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-fiuwhu\">\u201cGlasses are the ideal form factor for personal superintelligence because they let you stay present in the moment while getting access to all of these AI capabilities to make you smarter, help you communicate better, improve your memory, improve your senses,\u201d CEO Mark Zuckerberg <a href=\"https:\/\/sherwood.news\/tech\/apple-google-meta-obsessed-with-ai-glasses-companions-consumers-dont-want\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"css-uubm0\" rel=\"noopener\">reiterated<\/a> at the start of the event, but the ensuing bloopers certainly didn\u2019t make it feel that way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-fiuwhu\">In the very first demo of Live AI, Chef Jack Mancuso tried to get a recipe for steak sauce only to have the AI ignore his repeated requests and skip steps:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-fiuwhu\">Perhaps the most painful example of the night was when Zuckerberg attempted to take a video call from CTO Andrew \u201cBoz\u201d Bosworth, who\u2019s recently been spending time in his <a href=\"https:\/\/sherwood.news\/tech\/tech-executives-pivot-to-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"css-uubm0\" rel=\"noopener\">new role as an Army officer<\/a>. They tried five times and eventually Boz had to come onstage. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-fiuwhu\">\u201cWe\u2019re going to have Boz come out here and we\u2019re just going to go to the next thing that I wanted to show and hope that will work,\u201d Zuckerberg said, visibly stressed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-fiuwhu\">Throughout the event, Zuckerberg fumbled words and blamed the Wi-Fi for the glitches. It was uncomfortable, strange, and distracted from the product lineup, which included new Ray-Bans with a built-in display that\u2019s controlled by a wristband and Hyperscape Capture, tech that allows Quest users to quickly scan a room to create a virtual version of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-fiuwhu\">\u201cThis isn\u2019t a prototype,\u201d Zuckerberg said of the Ray-Ban Display glasses with the wristband earlier in the event. \u201cThis is here. This is ready to go and you\u2019re going to be able to buy them in a couple of weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-fiuwhu\">But if the tech doesn\u2019t work for Zuckerberg, who\u2019s so practiced with the wristband he can type 30 words per minute, what are the rest of us who aren\u2019t the CEO of the company to expect in real-life, day-to-day use cases?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-fiuwhu\">Fortunately for Meta, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tipranks.com\/stocks\/meta\/forecast\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"css-uubm0\" rel=\"noopener\">analysts<\/a> seem to have looked past the bloopers, with Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, and Cantor Fitzgerald reiterating \u201cbuy\u201d ratings after the event. 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