Meta’s secret Ray-Ban display glasses aren’t a secret anymore

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00:00Meta's secret Ray-Ban display glasses aren't a secret anymore.

00:04Meta may have just pulled a classic oops, all leaks.

00:08An unlisted promotional video, quickly yanked from the internet but not before UploadVR

00:12got receipts, appears to have spoiled two of the company's big Kinect announcements.

00:17The clip showed off a pair of Ray-Ban smart glasses with an honest-to-goodness display,

00:22plus a mysterious pair of Oakley's Fera wraparound sporting a nose-mounted camera.

00:26In other words, the company managed to spill its own tea.

00:30The Ray-Ban model, featuring Meta.

00:32Ray-Ban display branding embeds a screen in the right lens.

00:36Scenarios include querying Meta AI, navigating visually, instantly translating signs,

00:41and using a wristband for mid-air text input.

00:44That wristband, by the way, isn't some cheap gimmick.

00:47Earlier this year, CNBC reported that Meta has been cooking up a controller

00:51for its codenamed Hypernova glasses using SEMG.

00:55It listens to the tiny electrical signals in your arm muscles

00:58and interprets them as gestures.

01:01The leaked clip sure looked like that futuristic wrist wand in action.

01:05Meanwhile, the Oakley-branded Sfera glasses looked like something straight out of a cyberpunk ski resort.

01:10Sleek wraparounds with a little camera perched on the bridge.

01:13Less AR productivity tool, more spy movie villain chic.

01:17All of this was supposed to stay under wraps until Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Big Connect keynote

01:22scheduled for Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET.

01:26Instead, we now know he'll be strutting on stage with at least two new pieces of face hardware in tow.

01:31Whether these glasses are practical or just another $300 gadget to forget in a drawer

01:36is still to be determined.

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