That Zucked! Mark Zuckerberg’s new Meta keynote flopped big time

Last week, Facebook and Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg was left red-faced after a number of technical glitches were seen during his presentation of Meta Connect last week.

Zuckerberg was promoting the launch of the new Ray-Ban Meta Display when things began to go drastically wrong.

The smart sunglasses, with a wristband which is synced with the display to allow hand gestures to access control, are a new product in the visual intelligence of the tech market segment.

Before things began to go wrong for Zuckerberg, he told the audience assembled: “We’ve got the slides, or we’ve got the live demo.”

Live Demo Fails to Impress Meta Investors

Of course, Live Demo was the answer and signalled a humorous sequence of events, if you weren’t a Meta investor, that is.

Unlike the polished, almost advertorial nature of an Apple event, it seemed like Zuckerberg wasn’t really sure how to get his new offering to work properly.

They did a live cross to Jack Mancuso as he attempted to show how the glasses would help him out in real time, as he attempted to put together a complicated recipe in a kitchen.

Mancuso repeated the line: “What do I first?” several times, and the glasses simply did not reply, leaving a rather awkward silence.

Eventually, Mancuso, looking suitably embarrassed, said: “I think the Wi-Fi might be messed up, back to your Mark.”

Zuckerberg’s Glasses Glitch: A Call-Answering Mishap

Later, Zuckerberg wanted to show off how easily you could answer a phone call with the glasses. Sadly for Zuckerberg, he wasn’t able to complete the basic task of answering a call, to which he said: “I don’t know what happened. That’s too bad. This isn’t a prototype.”

Oh well, maybe next time, Zuck.

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