Meta’s expensive AI glasses debut worked well when two live demos malfunctioned on stage. (Credit: Facebook)
The highly anticipated demonstration of Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta’s new AI Glasses was tanked at Connect 2025 Keynote on Wednesday, with glitches unfolding in front of a packed audience.
The device, called the Meta Ray-Ban display, costs $799 and is being marketed as a breakthrough in the wearable “Agent AI,” which features a digital assistant acting on behalf of the user.
but Zuckerberg’s With the two demos unsuccessful, Meta’s new glasses appear to be slightly unpolished in front of hundreds.
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Meta’s $799 AI Glasses debut worked well when the live demo malfunctioned on stage and Zuckerberg groped for technology in front of global audiences. (Getty)
The keynote speech, held at Meta’s Silicon Valley headquarters, was billed as a long-term “Hyper Nova” glasses coming out party.
Initially, Zuckerberg showed off a live view through new glasses and responded to the text using a small list. However, the showcase went south.
Cooking creator Jack Mankuso joined Zuckerberg on stage and tried out the new liveai feature on glasses.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s $799 AI glasses were released at a live demo of the Meta Connect 2025 Keynote in California. (Getty)
One member of the audience, a member of Tech Radar Lance Uranov Zuckerberg’s presentation stated that there were some very big mistakes.
“The AI ​​was clearly confused and flying around,” Ulanoff said.
“The developer tells him not to run live demos. He continues to do that because when you’re in the keynote speech, there are thousands of people on Wi-Fi at the same time, which means things aren’t going well.”
According to Ulanoff, no other major tech companies have given live presentations.
“Apple has not made live presentations at keynotes for this reason,” he said.
“They’ll come out for Tim Cook for two seconds, so maybe a minute, then he goes behind the stage and we’ll watch the video before they’re in full control.”
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On Wednesday, September 17th, 2025, Mark Zuckerberg and Andrew Bosworth on the left will wear Metaray-Ban Display AI glasses at the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, USA. (Getty)
Instead, the assistant repeatedly skipped ahead, refusing to answer the simple question, “What do you do first?”
After a failed attempt, Mankuso denounced the wifi before throwing the segment at Zuckerberg.
The second stumble came during the showcase of neural bands. Zuckerberg successfully sent and received a text from meta CTO Andrew Bosworth.
However, when Bosworth tried to start a WhatsApp video call, the glasses didn’t pick it up.
Zuckerberg groped through the interface before giving up. Bosworth finally walked on stage and joked about “brutal wifi” as the audience laughed.
“You practice these things like a hundred times and then you don’t know what’s going to happen,” Zuckerberg said.
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Despite the stage flaws, Zuckerberg framed glasses as jumping forward with AI-powered personal technology.
He emphasized that the device represents a vision for the future meta where wearable AI assistants predict needs and handle tasks with minimal user effort.
“Mark has enthusiasm, so he was willing to take risks, but unfortunately, in some instances, it didn’t go down his path,” Uranov added.
“I’m sure Mark Zuckerberg felt very uncomfortable, but I praise him for keeping him calm and making a joke about it.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to Meta for comment.
