Your Ray-Ban Meta App Development Partner

Which glasses, and what goes where.

• Which Meta glasses can you build apps for?

  All four. Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta, and Meta AI glasses have a camera, microphones, and speakers, with no screen. Ray-Ban Meta Display adds a display in the right lens. One toolkit from Meta covers the whole family, and we build for every model in it.

• What belongs on the glasses and what belongs on the phone?

  The glasses handle the moment: a capture, a question, a short answer, a glance. The phone holds anything you’d read at length, review, or come back to. Getting that split right is most of the design work, and it’s the first thing we prototype.

• Has L+R actually built on Meta’s toolkit?

  Yes, since before general availability. Talking Point and the DUMBO public art guide are both built on it, and our Flutter plugin, flutter_meta_wearables_dat, is open source.

What an app can do on each model.

• What can an app do on these glasses?

  Take a photo or video hands-free, stream what the wearer is looking at, listen to a spoken request, and answer out loud. All of it goes through the Wearables Device Access Toolkit.

• With no screen, where does the interface live?

  In sound: a spoken prompt, a short answer, a confirmation you can hear. The DUMBO public art guide works this way: look at a sculpture, and the glasses tell you about the artist. Short, confident interactions win here, and anything that needs sustained attention belongs on the phone.

What the display changes.

• What makes Ray-Ban Meta Display different?

  A small translucent display in the right lens, a first for this family. It sits over the world, and the design question becomes what’s worth interrupting the world for. Glanceable beats detailed, every time. Cooking HUD moves through a recipe in 3 stages and keeps just the next step in view.

• How do people control it?

  With the Meta Neural Band, a wristband that reads the small muscle signals of a pinch or a swipe, plus voice. You can move through an app in a quiet room without saying a word or reaching for your phone.

• Can we see how our app would look before buying hardware?

  Yes. displayglasses.dev, our free browser simulator, loads any URL into a heads-up display over real-world scenes. It reproduces the additive waveguide blend, which is what decides contrast and legibility. Change its position, size, and brightness, swap the scene, record the result, or preview it on a phone or your own pair via QR code. Our own designers use it, and you can try your idea in it today.

What working with us looks like.

• What makes L+R a fit for a Ray-Ban Meta project?

  We’ve been building on the glasses since the toolkit was closed to most developers, and we design and engineer on one team. Each build is tested on pairs from our own device library.

• How does L+R work on Ray-Ban Meta projects?

  We start with a scoped prototype on the glasses. Your team gets something to wear and react to early, and the full build starts from what you learned.

• Who is building for AI glasses today?

  A small group, since the platform opened to developers only recently. We’re one of them, and it grows out of our wearable and spatial product work.

• Which Ray-Ban Meta apps has L+R shipped?

  Glimmer keeps a small pixel creature in the corner of your eye, and it grows through 5 stages if you look after it. Brush Coach counts your brushing strokes through the glasses' accelerometer. Flight Status and Metronome round it out on Ray-Ban Meta Display, and each one has its own case study. If you’re weighing up a project, tell us what you have in mind.