Connect 2025 target was full of impressive intelligent glasses, but also several live demonstration failures. Since then, CTO Andrew Bosworth has led Instagram to reveal what went wrong.
The first demonstration problem involved a chef who tried and failed to get the glasses to help him prepare a meal to show the live, an always on the goal of the goal that can provide continuous contextual assistance following his actions.
After some attempts to go to the next step of the process, the chef had to surrender and the CEO of Meta Mark Zuckerberg had to continue with the show, and blame the Wi-Fi. Andrew Bosworth later explained that the Wi-Fi was not to blame, “when the chef said ‘Hey Meta Start Live Ai’, each live-Ban target live in the building, and there were many people in that building.”
He added that what worsened things was “we had curled the traffic of the live server, in theory to isolate it, but we had done it for everyone in that building in those access points.” Basically “we gave ourselves.”
A DDOS is a cyber attack that aims to overload a server by throwing as much traffic as possible of multiple sources so that it cannot be accessed.
Bosworth said they had rehearsed the demonstration and that it was without problems, but that there was nothing close to so many Ray-Ban devices in the building to cause problems.
A ‘Error never seen’
What about the video call failure that ruined the introduction of Bosworth to the program? This was “much darker” according to its analysis after the show.
In what he described as “an error never seen in a new product,” Bosworth said that the cause of the problem was that “the screen had fallen asleep at the same moment that the notification had come that a call was approaching.”
“And so it was a career condition that caused even when Mark woke the screen again we did not show him the response notification.”
A career condition is a programming term for when multiple processes are executed while based on shared data. The processes are generally not intended to function at the same time, and have accidentally entered a race to see what completely completes, potentially altering the shared data and ruining any other process that will try to do.
In the demonstration, it seems that the notifications and the function of awakening were trying to do different things with the screen causing the gaffe on stage.
Regardless of what went wrong, the demonstration was “the first time we had seen” the error according to Bosworth, adding (while smiling) “is now fixed.”
Postivity after failure
In other Instagram stories, Andrew Bosworth said that while demonstration failures were an annoyance, they have not convinced the goal of abandoning live demonstrations or having caused a lot of shame.
This is because many journalists, such as our own Lance Ulanoff and Josephine Watson, have tried the glasses and have been very impressed with what they have seen.
These “critics”, as Bosworth refers to them, would not be so positive if there were no positive things to say about glasses.
Speaking of that, Lance said about the goal display glasses Ray Ray-Ban “Based on my experience, nothing comes to delivering information without a look, and I am starting to ask me if this is a look at what one day will replace smartphones.
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