A live blog of Meta Connect 2025, where Meta announced Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses with and without a display, new Meta Oakley glasses, Horizon updates, and more
Expect a lot of smart glasses and AI talk this year, with a dash of the metaverse and VR. — Who's excited for smart glasses?
Engadget Devindra Hardawar
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- The failed demos were difficult to watch, but it's still real and miles more genuine than the pre-made infomercial full of product renders @wongmjane
- as a tech enthusiast and software engineer, i think live demos are awesome and fantastic and superior to recorded demos but I'm not sure if that's the best experience for the normies who need to get excited to buy your product. Meta should do some kinda user/customer research and take a call on live demos for next year tbh @documentingmeta
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Discussion
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@swyx
@swyx
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ok this is the sickest live demo opening for a company conference i've ever seen glasses = AR + Personal Superintelligence the ultimate Meta reality form factor [video]
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@munster_gene
Gene Munster
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Shift to “Live AI” demo conks out. Blames it on the wifi. My take: There's still a lightyear gap between OpenAI conversation mode and Meta's live AI. $META
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@jason
@jason
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Love it! Respect! Demo or die, as is the tradition! NO CANNED DEMOS [video]
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@mikeisaac
Rat King
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one battle after another on the live demo stumbles at Meta's developer conference [image]
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@nearcyan
Near
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LEAKED TRAILER: The Social Network 2: Run Club [video]
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@scobleizer
Robert Scoble
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Mark Zuckerberg is knocking it out of the park. The future just arrived.
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@pitdesi
Sheel Mohnot
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Remember when the iphone 4 demo failed and Steve Jobs told people in the audience to turn off their wifi? charming to look back [video]
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@benthompson
Ben Thompson
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Live demo fails are good tech karma
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@munster_gene
Gene Munster
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Zuck does not give glasses shipment numbers, which means it's still small. My guess is sub 5-10m units a year. Over 2.5B phones a year. $META
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@lunayian
Luna
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Most mid Connect since 2021 but happy to see a lot of long WIP things finally seeing the light.
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@andrewcurran_
Andrew Curran
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Great opening to the META Connect event which is just starting. It opened with Mark Z picking up his glasses, putting them on, then switching to the glasses pov with the in lens HUD pushing info. Felt like the opening to a Fallout game. [image]
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@ranimolla
Rani Molla
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This Meta VR event is a clusterfuck. Half the demos aren't working. They're blaming the wifi. If these devices don't work for the dude who's learned to type 30 words per minute with his wrist what about the rest of us???
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@munster_gene
Gene Munster
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Good news for $AAPL. One take away from tonights $META keynote is hardware, software, AI integration is REALLY hard as evidence that two glasses demos struggled. And they've poured energy into hardware. Meta has lost/invested about $65B in Reality Labs since the name change in…
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@munster_gene
Gene Munster
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$META will get heat for the demo bombs. I applaud Zuck for “doing it live”. Bill O'Reilly must be proud.
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@skarredghost
@skarredghost
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With much respect with James Cameron, but this fireside chat is pretty sleep-inducing
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@supbagholder
@supbagholder
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2/2 failed demos so far cmon zuck 🥹
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r/freeflight
r
on reddit
Who is gonna be the first to make a paragliding HUD with these?
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r/RayBanStories
r
on reddit
Introducing Meta Ray-Ban Display: A Breakthrough Category of AI Glasses