Meta's Smart Glasses Demo Disaster: A Self-Inflicted DDoS and a Nasty Bug

Meta's new smart glasses suffered multiple demo failures at Meta Connect. CTO Andrew Bosworth explained it wasn't Wi-Fi, but a resource management miscalculation that triggered all Ray-Ban Meta glasses to simultaneously start their AI, creating a self-inflicted DDoS attack on the dev server. A separate WhatsApp video call failure stemmed from a new 'race condition' bug causing the display to miss the incoming call notification. Despite the demo failures, Bosworth remains confident in the product.