Meta Connect 2025’s Smart Glasses Demo Fiasco – CTO Reveals the Real Reason (It Wasn’t Wi‑Fi!)
Meta’s annual developer conference, Meta Connect 2025, was meant to showcase the company’s latest breakthroughs in augmented and virtual reality. In the keynote, CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced three new smart glasses products aimed at bringing AI to users’ faces: an upgraded Ray-Ban Meta, a new Meta Ray-Ban Display with a built-in heads-up display and neural wristband controller, and the Oakley Meta Vanguard sports glasses techcrunch.com. These devices, priced up to $799 for the Ray-Ban Display model, promise to overlay digital info in your field of view – showing texts, directions, video calls, and real-time AI assistance on a tiny screen in the lens cybernews.com. Meta touted them as a leap toward “agentic AI” wearables – intelligent assistants that can proactively help you through the day, all built into stylish eyewear foxbusiness.com.
