"It was an embarrassing display, highlighting some glaring shortcomings with the company's efforts to infuse its Ray-Ban smart glasses with a heavy dose of AI. Afterward, in an ask-me-anything on Instagram, Meta's CTO Andrew Bosworth explained what went wrong, insisting that it was a "demo fail, not a product fail." "When the chef said, 'Hey Meta, start Live AI,' it started every single Ray-Ban Meta's Live AI in the building," he said. "And there was a lot of people in that building.""
"the CEO stammered after his smart glasses refused to accept a WhatsApp video call on stage. "Let's try it again, I keep messing this up." Another demo involved content creator and amateur chef Jack Mancuso trying to get assistance from his AI glasses while cooking up a steak sauce. But the segment devolved into confusion as the "Live AI" feature assumed he was far more along in the process than he actually was, the kind of hallucination you'd expect from an AI assistant."
Multiple live demonstrations of Meta's AI-enabled Ray-Ban smart glasses malfunctioned during the MetaConnect 2025 keynote, causing awkward pauses and visible confusion. The CEO's glasses failed to accept a WhatsApp video call on stage, prompting an onstage retry. A cooking demo with creator Jack Mancuso revealed an AI hallucination when the "Live AI" feature incorrectly stated base ingredients had been combined. Meta's CTO later called the problems a "demo fail, not a product fail," explaining that activating Live AI triggered many devices and overloaded a development server. The CTO conceded that the company effectively DDoS'd its own network during the event.
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