{"id":238842,"date":"2025-09-19T11:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T11:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/238842\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T11:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T11:59:09","slug":"metas-failed-smart-glasses-demos-had-nothing-to-do-with-the-wi-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/238842\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta\u2019s failed smart glasses demos had nothing to do with the Wi-Fi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cWhen the chef said \u2018hey Meta, start Live AI,\u2019 it started every single Meta Ray-Ban\u2019s Live AI in the building,\u201d said Bosworth. \u201cWe had routed Live AI traffic to our dev server, in theory, to isolate it, but we had done it for everyone in that building on those access points. We DDoS\u2019d ourselves, basically.\u201d So yeah, it wasn\u2019t the Wi-Fi, as Zuck claimed on stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The video call issue was \u201cmore obscure,\u201d according to Bosworth, and involved a \u201cnever-before-seen bug\u201d that occurred because the Display glasses had gone to sleep at the same moment that the device received the call notification. Bosworth says that the bug has now been fixed, but acknowledged the onstage demo was a \u201cterrible place for that bug to show up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Even with the technical blunders, Meta providing an honest live product demonstration is a nice break from the usual fare of pre-recorded videos and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/5\/14\/24156729\/googles-gemini-video-search-makes-factual-error-in-demo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">generative AI errors<\/a> that companies like Apple and Google showcase these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWhen the chef said \u2018hey Meta, start Live AI,\u2019 it started every single Meta Ray-Ban\u2019s Live AI in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":238843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[691,340,50,242,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-238842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-meta","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-tech","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115230852047191464","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}