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It looks like next-gen Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses will follow the Google Glass playbook, only better

Upgraded Ray-Ban Metas with a monocular display? Yes, please!

Hypernova diverges from the existing Ray-Ban Meta glasses by offering a single display on the bottom of the right lens, a full set of Android-powered computational hardware, and a bundled gesture band that makes interaction with a small screen simple. I previously covered how sEMG bands work, but the gist is that they can sense muscle movements in your hand and understand the difference between pinching your fingers together and scrolling with your thumb. It's unreasonable to expect a fully-featured pair of smart glasses to somehow be light enough for comfort and have all-day battery life in this day and age, but that's a problem that might be solved a few years in the future.

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