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Meta CTO explains why the smart glasses demos failed at Meta Connect — and it wasn’t the Wi-Fi


Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth offered a post-mortem on Meta's demo fails this week at its developer conference, where it showed off new AI glasses.

In one, cooking content creator Jack Mancuso asked his Ray-Ban Meta glasses how to get started with a particular sauce recipe. The second part of the failure had to do with how Meta had chosen to route the Live AI traffic to its development server to isolate it during the demo. The CTO said this was a “race condition” bug, or where the outcome depends on the unpredictable and uncoordinated timing of two or more different processes trying to use the same resource simultaneously.

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