Mark Zuckerberg’s much-anticipated demo of Meta’s new AI glasses tanked Wednesday at the Connect 2025 keynote, with glitches playing out in front of a packed audience.

The device, called Meta Ray-Ban Display is priced at $799 and has been pitched as a breakthrough in wearable "agentic AI" with digital assistants that act on behalf of users.

But Zuckerberg's two demo fails left Meta’s new glasses looking slightly less polished in front of hundreds.

The keynote, held at Meta’s Silicon Valley headquarters, was billed as the coming-out party for the long-rumored "Hypernova" glasses.

At first, Zuckerberg showed off a live view through the new glasses and replied to texts using small wrist motions. But the showcase went south.

Cooking creator Jack Mancuso joined Zuckerberg onstage to try

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