Meta Ray-Ban Display leak shows HUD glasses with EMG wristband

Meta briefly posted and then removed a video on its YouTube channel that appears to show a new pair of Ray-Ban–branded smart glasses with a built-in heads-up display and a companion sEMG wristband, a revealing leak that came days ahead of the company’s Connect developer conference scheduled to begin September 17. The clip, which was mirrored and circulated by industry leakers, shows a monocular display over the right eye delivering Meta AI responses, turn-by-turn navigation, message notifications and live translations, and it depicts the glasses being controlled by subtle finger gestures detected by the wristband.

The footage suggests the glasses will not be full augmented reality devices that blend graphics seamlessly into the world, but rather display-enabled spectacles that present information on a fixed panel visible to one eye. In the video, the wristband reads electrical signals from the forearm to interpret pinches and taps as inputs, a technology sometimes referred to as surface electromyography and previously seen in Meta’s Orion prototype and related accessories. The clip also includes several other designs, including sport-oriented wraparound models reportedly...