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Mark Zuckerberg Humiliated as AI Glasses Debut Fails in Front of Huge Crowd (futurism.com)
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On Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a slew of new augmented reality glasses, including what he claimed to be the "first AI glasses with high resolution," a new $799 version of its Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses that features a tiny screen that's viewable to the wearer.

But it didn't take long for the company's MetaConnect 2025 keynote to descend into chaos. The social media giant's demos repeatedly failed, leading to awkward stares, deafening silences, and muted laughter.

The poor showing painfully demonstrates that the tech is far from ready, even as companies continue to shove AI into every aspect of our daily lives.

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[โ€“] Hector@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Google smartglasses got quite a backlash some ten years back, a beta version dude wore into a fast food place or something got everyone upset for filming them all without consent.

They shelved it around then for whatever reasons.

[โ€“] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 8 points 1 week ago

They shelved it because it didn't work. I have a very normal English accent (think BBC) and the voice recognition was extremely unreliable. Super frustrating experience. Plus nobody wants to use a voice interface in public.

I dunno if we ever really saw how the "camera on your head" social aspect would have played out because they were too shit for anyone except the curious rich to buy them in the first place.

This thing seems to work (well in theory anyway) without a voice interface which is much saner.

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