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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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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just a few days ago, I commented on how Meta is taking the spot Microsoft left vacant after no longer doing live BSoD on these kinds of events.

"Can you help me create a Korean-inspired steak sauce?" Mancuso asked his glasses.
"What do I do first?" Mancuso interjected after the robotic voice started making suggestions.
"What do I do first?" the influencer repeated after several seconds of total silence that followed.
"You already combined the base ingredients," the AI told Mancuso, who was standing in front of an empty glass bowl that he hadn't touched yet.

A separate attempt by Zuckerberg to make a video call with his glasses ended with him awkwardly trying to explain why it wasn't working.
"This is, uh... it happens," the CEO stammered.
"Let's try it again, I keep messing this up," he added. \

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[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Love how they blamed it all on the wifi.

[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 37 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Why must the thumbnail show his cum face

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I read that face as:

"Shit, how do humans show exasperation again?! Fuck it, I'll just copy Ben Affleck from that one meme. :fucks it up:"

[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 1 points 2 days ago

Fuck now I can't unsee it.

[–] cannon_annon88@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago

I had to go back and look... Too funny

[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

he has a humiliation fetish and this is a part of it

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago

It's his expression when he receives an anal probe with new private data

[–] DreamAccountant@lemmy.world 70 points 4 days ago

Zuckerberg is a nazi loser. Booooo! BooooooooooO!

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 66 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Those 'smart' glasses look like some truly dystopian shit. They might record everything we see, and might record our surroundings through a slew of sensors embedded into the glasses. Honestly, I will stay away from these.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 47 points 4 days ago

Yep. And since they're made by "Meta", any promise that those glasses aren't constantly recording and over sharing - well, I won't believe it.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Everyone equates him to lex luthor, but honestly with this data mining shit he's Jim Carrey's Riddler without the humanity

Can't wait until it bites him in the arse and he starts flapping around screaming he's batman

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ok, I can get how he looks almost exactly like that version of the Riddler, but I don't remember what was his villain plot in that Batman movie (Forever? &Robin?)

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 3 days ago

Forever, the 3D box that was siphoning everyone's private thoughts

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4CkRewmRnRc

Fuck me that shit looks positively prophetic now

[–] AmanitaCaesarea@slrpnk.net 7 points 4 days ago

Smart phones already do, but yeah camera on your face is even worse

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Just wait till people wear them into restrooms.

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[–] Hector@lemmy.world 29 points 4 days ago (4 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.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 8 points 3 days 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.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Turns out people don’t want to be filmed at all times

It’s ok when it’s hidden, but not when you are aware of them.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 32 points 4 days ago

It’s ok when it’s hidden

I mean, it's not okay with me, I just don't feel like we have a choice anymore.

[–] sip@programming.dev 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

you mean security camera vs in your face camera?

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

This for sure. Security cameras everywhere, from the time you pull into the parking lot to inside the business, traffic cams, etc.

Difference is that you don’t expect that those will be potentially uploaded to a social media platform with the commentary of the recorder.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They are ussually closed loop as well... so in theory only accessed by the store manager or police. Though, im sure more and more are being piped straight to the cloud for 'analyzation'

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[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

They shelved it mostly because the battery technology wasn't evolved enough. Now that it is, no privacy concerns will ever stop them

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago

I used a Google glass once. A friend had bought one and we sat around his house kinda playing with it. The display was tiny, only about a fingernail sized portion of the top corner of one eye, and iirc it was text only. Also, the module on the glasses to do that was pretty huge - like "90s-toy dragonball power level eyepiece on top of a normal glasses frame" huge.

He ended up returning it after we all discussed it. I don't remember that or if the consensus was, but I remember thinking it was neat but really really really really really really really premature and REALLY expensive. I think it was over a grand.

Compare that to the hololens 1 that I played with at some point, and THAT was really cool. Awful gestures, very dark, bigger but still laughably small FOV, but at least the hololens was playing spatial computing games overlayed into your vision. It, too, was really premature, but at least it was forward progress.

I don't know what's in Zuck's head or heart, but I think AR and VR are fucking awesome technologies, and while embarrassing moments are easy to make fun of, I also know that his show of spine for something he believes in in the face of people and investors has impressed me at least a little bit. I wish money wasn't involved and wouldn't ruin everything it touches, because for better and for worse, the tech is going to change the world.

[–] TomMasz@piefed.social 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Everything Zuck does screams "I have no friends".

[–] scala@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

Tom from mySpace has all the friends

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 33 points 4 days ago

[–] Novamdomum@fedia.io 23 points 4 days ago (5 children)

The problem is that people like Zuckerberg, Bezos (and Trump in fact), don't react to humiliation the way ordinary people do. It makes them want to dominate the world more. I'll never forget the look on Trump's face at that correspondents dinner sitting there being ridiculed by everyone. He probably decided to ruin everything for everyone in the entire world right there and then. Bezos was ridiculed for decades as a dumb, failed entrepreneur and ended up quasi-enslaving over a million people, forcing a lot of them to pee in bottles and be monitored like lab mice. It just feels like the opposite of a good idea to add more fuel to their insecurities. It doesn't end well for the rest of us.

[–] survirtual@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Okay?

So let me get this straight. A society of billions should grovel at the feet of these specific human meatbags, filled with the same blood, brains, hearts, and other mammalian organic matter as the rest of us...because they are immature little shits?

Is this correct?

They aren't and can't force anyone to do anything. That is a choice everyone is making. They are tiny, minuscule little insects who would vanish with a thought if humanity chose so.

I can't wait for our planet to wake up.

[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 days ago (3 children)

They aren't and can't force anyone to do anything.

Assuming 'they' are the billionaires.... Who do you think is actually controlling everything?

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[–] mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 days ago

These people only have power because we let them.

We can decide tomorrow Zuck has no power. He can not stop us all.

[–] scala@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's super easy. Just stop using these idiot's services.

The hard part is people feel the need for that connection, be it social with Facebook, where else will they go? Google+ is no longer around, mySpace.

Amazon, what other service provides next day or even same day delivery without leaving the house.

Easy for people to stop going to Trump hotels. That's a no brainer.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago

Easier said than done.

Amazon is more than just the shitty 'murican aliexpress and prime video, it's also AWS, which earns fuckloads of money from corporate customers.

Meta owns Whatsapp, which is the most widely used communication app in the entire world. In some countries, not using whatsapp is the same as being incommunicado.
They also own Instagram, which a LOT of small and medium businesses rely on to find customers

Not so easy for these people who became reliant on them.

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[–] remon@ani.social 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't think you can humiliate him, androids can't feel shame.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

just reverse the polarity of his recharge cable. i mean it'll still work, he's got buffers and shit for that i dunno i don't build robits but it makes him buzz

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 4 days ago

Love that for him

[–] Novocirab@feddit.org 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Direct link to the key video sequence: https://xcancel.com/altryne/status/1968473903816224913

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

you fucked it

[–] Diffuser5593@aussie.zone 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is it just me or is the domain for the link no longer active?

[–] Kovukono@pawb.social 6 points 3 days ago

I think they got the link from Twitter, and then tried to modify it so it goes through xcancel, but forgot the c. This works: https://xcancel.com/altryne/status/1968473903816224913

[–] EntropyPure@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Windows 95 USB moment right there

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[–] rozodru@piefed.social 10 points 4 days ago

it was the wifi guys...

[–] Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Cuck

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

[–] Captain_Faraday@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It was DNS.

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