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Mike Prospero

Meta Ray Ban Display fail: Here's why Mark Zuckerberg's demo didn't work

Playing music and controlling the volume on the Meta RayBan Display smart glasses.

As everyone from Tim Cook to Bill Gates will attest, live demos of new features at a launch event are fraught with potential pitfalls. Those little goblins made themselves known at Meta Connect, when Mark Zuckerberg tried to demonstrate two features of the new Meta Ray-Ban Display smart glasses, only to have both fail.

While Zuckerberg blamed the issue at the time on the building's Wi-Fi, the reason was something else entirely. Andrew Bosworth, Meta’s chief technology officer, took to an Instagram Story the day after to explain the reason.

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