Welcome to the TechBrew Ride Home for Tuesday, September 16th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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A now removed unlisted video on meta's's YouTube channel apparently revealed new meta-rayband

glasses with a heads-up display shown to one eye, also an S-EMG wristband, quoting Upload VR.

To be clear, this is not true AR, and it's far less ambitious than the Orion prototype.

The clip shows the fixed HUD visible to the

right eye only being used for meta-AI and on-foot navigation, as well as the wristband being used

for finger-swiping letters on a physical service to respond to a message. That meta is launching

smart glasses with a HUD controlled by its long and development SEMG wristband

at Connect 2025 is not a surprise. Bloomberg's Mark German, The Verge, the information, the Financial

Times, and CNBC have all reported that meta intends to release such a device this year,

and in July, renders of it and its wristband were discovered in early firmware.

But what is somewhat of a surprise is that it will be Rayban branded.

Last year, the information reported that the glasses would be released by Meta without

Esselor Luxottica because the Rayban and Oakley owner balked at how thick the

temple of the glasses needed to be to deliver a display.

According to that report, the glasses will weigh 70 grams compared to the 50 grams of

Rayban meta-glasses.

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