PARIS (Reuters) – Meta Platforms Inc’s chief govt, Mark Zuckerberg, on Wednesday teased a brand new sensible glasses challenge with EssilorLuxottica, posting a photograph of the eyewear firm’s chairman sporting a prototype of a neural interface wristband – designed for steering different gadgets.

“Right here Leonardo is utilizing a prototype of our neural interface EMG [electromyography] wristband that may finally allow you to management your glasses and different gadgets,” Zuckerberg mentioned in a put up on Fb (NASDAQ:), referring to EssilorLuxottica’s chairman, Leonardo Del Vecchio. He closed his message with a smiley-face emoji sporting sun shades.

Fb – which modified its identify to Meta Platforms in October – mentioned in a weblog put up final 12 months that it deliberate to develop a wristband that might management augmented actuality glasses, permitting customers to work together with a digital world utilizing finger actions.

Zuckerberg was in Milan to debate plans for brand spanking new sensible glasses with the eyewear firm, he mentioned.

Tech firms Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:), Apple Inc (NASDAQ:) and Alphabet (NASDAQ:) Inc’s Google have piled in to the wearable tech enterprise, growing augmented actuality glasses in a guess they might at some point exchange cell phones. Google additionally embraced health monitoring expertise by buying Fitbit (NYSE:) for $2.1 billion.

In 2020, EssilorLuxottica and Meta Platforms introduced a multiyear collaboration to develop sensible glasses. They at present promote frames just like the traditional Ray-Ban Wayfarer mannequin which are embedded with expertise, permitting the wearer to take photographs and take heed to music and calls, beginning at $299.