Meta accidentally causes DDoS attack on itself while demonstrating smart glasses

During the presentation of the new Meta smart glasses, technical problems occurred on stage. This caused a lot of speculation on the Internet, and the company's CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the problem was Wi-Fi. However, later the chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth explained what was the matter, writes The Verge.

During a Q&A session on Instagram, Bosworth explained that when the presentation said, "Hey Meta, start Live AI," it immediately launched the feature on all the glasses in the room. Even though Live AI traffic was routed to a separate server, it was traffic from all the glasses, causing Meta to literally launch a DDoS attack on itself.

Bosworth notes that during the rehearsal, everything worked properly, but that time there were far fewer glasses in the room and the workload was not as heavy.

He also explained the video call issue that occurred during the demo, which he said was "no longer known" and was caused by a "previously unseen bug." He says the Ray-Ban Display glasses would go into sleep mode when the device received a call notification, but that the bug has now been fixed.