Liam's idea is really good. I like the concept of Flow, even though it doesn't quite work for me.

Also, I think 600×600 is perfectly capable of displaying full sentences.

The real problem is text input.

Web apps on the Meta Ray-Ban Displays don't have text or voice input, and typing by swiping on a QWERTY keyboard is ... painful.

So I put together a small prototype that uses the glasses' gyroscope to continuously steer a cursor over a QWERTY keyboard.

Surprisingly, it worked... okay.

I don't think this is the right solution, but I was genuinely surprised by how usable it felt, so I thought it was worth sharing.

- Pinch to select the highlighted key
- Swipe Up/Down to adjust cursor sensitivity
- Swipe Left/Right to recenter the cursor

Try it here: https://qwerty.familybusiness.studio/

I'd love to hear what you think.

How did it feel to use? Would you prefer something completely different, or do you think head-controlled input has potential?

🏓 For context: A friend and I both got Meta Ray-Ban Displays, so we started Ping Pong Prototyping (PPP). One of us shares a demo, then it's the other's turn. This is my return to Liam's Flow.

u/Different_Poetry_849 made another great one with Planes, point at an aircraft and get info about it in AR.

We’ve been doing a lot of location-based prototypes that use the camera, the world around you, and head movement. So for my PPP return, I wanted to try something a bit different: reading designed around a glanceable display.

I made Flow, an RSVP reading app for Meta Ray-Ban Display.

RSVP stands for Rapid Serial Visual Presentation. Instead of reading paragraphs, words appear one at a time in the same place. I first came across it through an Instagram Reel and thought it was a really interesting way of processing information.

It feels like a good fit for Ray-Ban Display because paragraphs can be awkward in a small field of view, but one word at a time feels surprisingly natural.

Personally, I can read RSVP at 450+ WPM when focused. At around 300 WPM, I can still do other things while reading, which is the part I find most interesting.

Right now I’ve been testing it with daily news, stocks, a few public-domain books like Alice in Wonderland, and language switching. I did some research and RSVP does seem to work in other languages too, although English is by far the most researched.

Curious what people think:

Would you use something like this for news, articles, books, docs, or messages?

Is the value speed reading, hands-free reading, accessibility, or making glanceable displays more useful?

What features would make it actually useful?

🏓 For context: u/Different_Poetry_849 and I both got Meta Ray-Ban Displays, so we started Ping Pong Prototyping. One of us ships an app, then it’s the other’s turn to return.

This is my return to Planes, ball’s back on their side of the table.

I’ll put the demo link in the comments.

I've waited long enough, and  u/Far-Temporary6630 missed his chance to return after my Full Debug.

The score is finally 1:0. 🏓

It's my serve again.

I wanted to be the smartest-looking person on the hike, so I decided to build an app that shows mountain peaks and other prominent landmarks around me.

The problem? I couldn't really build and test it from home.

So I came up with this setup:

• Connected the GitHub repo to Cloudflare Pages using my own domain.
• Gave Codex permission to edit, commit, and push changes.
• Set up remote access to Codex from the mobile app.
• Left my laptop running at home and went on a 2-day hike.

While hiking, every time I wanted to add something or just spotted a bug, I simply asked Codex to fix it. Within moments, the changes were deployed, and I could immediately test them on the Meta Ray-Ban Displays.

It honestly felt like cheating.

I've never been more productive on a hike.

Try the app: https://peaks.familybusiness.studio/

Your return, u/Far-Temporary6630. Don't miss your turn this time. 😄

🏓 For context: A friend and I both got Meta Ray-Ban Displays, so we started Ping Pong Prototyping (PPP). Every day, one of us builds something for the glasses, then it's the other's turn. Liam missed his turn, so this is my serve again.

Returning my serve, u/Different_Poetry_849**. 🏓**

Nice hike. Smart glasses that name mountains for you, very civilized.

Me? I stayed indoors and taught my glasses to throw sharp objects.

I linked the Meta Ray-Ban Displays to my Scolia Home 2 dartboard. The board already auto-scores every throw, so I figured: what if each dart could do something? So I built a little suite of minigames that live right in the display while you play:

• 🪨 Asteroid — every dart chips away at a rock hurtling toward you. Miss, and it gets closer.
• 💣 Bomb Defusal — hit the right segments in the right order before the timer runs out. Wrong wire, boom.
• ⭕ Tic Tac Toe — the board becomes the grid. Land your dart in the square you want.
• 🔐 Safe Crack — dial in the combination, one throw at a time.

There's also a guide built in to get you started.

These are first prototypes, mostly to answer a question I was curious about: how does it feel to play with a non-spatialized display? The MRBD HUD isn't full AR — it's a little heads-up panel, not anchored to the world. My honest takeaway: it works better than I expected. It definitely makes darts more playful. Having the game react in your periphery while you focus on the board is a surprisingly good loop.

Super big thanks to Scolia for partnering with me on this one! It all runs on their board and their API — the real-time throw detection is what makes these games possible in the first place. Couldn't have built it without them.

Lots more to come. Your turn, and no hiding on a mountain this time. 😄

🏓 For context: A friend and I both got Meta Ray-Ban Displays, so we started Ping Pong Prototyping (PPP). Every day, one of us builds something for the glasses, then it's the other's turn. Liam went hiking and served, so this is my return.

Hey all! Excited to share the first emulator for the Meta Ray Ban Displays.

Like many of you, I've been building web apps since the dev kit dropped ~1 month ago, and kept running into the same problem that there's no easy way to preview them without loading onto the actual glasses. So I built one!

https://hud.xyz/emulator

Drop in any web app URL

Paste in your web app URL and it renders straight onto the glasses. Test your app's layout and colors without the physical glasses, then share clean screenshots for your demo once you're ready.

Accurate lens transparency

Accurately preview how your app looks on the MRBD lenses in different environments and lighting conditions (around 30-40% transparency I feel is pretty close to IRL).

Glasses mode or 1:1

Toggle between frames and the 600x600 pixel view if you want to see your app in the correct resolution.

Day and night environments

Flip between light and dark modes to check contrast and legibility in different conditions. The MRBDs use projectors to render their screens, so it's good to make sure your app is readable both indoors and outside :)

hud.xyz is still in v1, so stay tuned for more updates! If there's something you want to see simulated or tweaked, let me know.

Very welcome to feedback - bugs, feature requests, the sorts.

Hey everyone, I’ve been building an early prototype called Mentor on Call for Meta Ray-Ban Display / Meta Display glasses.

The idea is an expert-on-demand assistant that lives on the glasses. You choose a mentor trained on a manual, checklist, or persona, then ask it questions about what you are seeing. For visual questions, the companion captures a still image, sends it to Gemini with the active mentor context, and the display shows a small avatar, response, and eventually a highlight over the part being discussed.

This clip uses a Miranda-inspired fashion-editor mentor because outfit critique makes the visual loop easy to understand. The bigger direction is more practical: repair manuals, machine setup, restaurant procedures, training checklists, or any situation where someone needs guidance while looking at the real world.

The design constraint I’m exploring:

- Web App stays lightweight and display-only: mentor picker, avatar, captions, image preview, targeting hints.

- Phone/DAT companion acts as the eyes, ears, and controller: camera/audio, Gemini calls, backend coordination. But they have a lot of design limitations around what is possible or not for this use-case like no continuous camera mirror; visual turns are user-triggered stills.

Small note: this is not available as an app yet. I’m posting it as an early prototype to get feedback from other builders and people thinking about glasses-native AI interfaces. If anyone is interested in helping test, shape, or eventually launch something like this, I’d love to chat.

This is my first web app, so it is definitely a little silly, but it was a really fun way to learn about the capabilities and limitations of building for Meta Ray-Bans Display and how I can bring my UI/UX skills into a more lightweight, glanceable interface!

Bbang (빵) helps you decide what kind of Korean bread to get when you cannot choose. You can spin through different Korean bakery breads, get a random pick, swipe to learn more about each bread, and use a nearby bakery finder to see where you might be able to get one. You can also save bakeries you have visited so you can keep track of favorites.

I can't share a public link yet because I am using the free tier of the Google Places API, but send me a DM if you would like to try it!

Hope to make more web apps soon 👍

➡️ Location-aware experiences like Whenabouts and Meta Geology, turning your surroundings into real-world layers of fossils, geology, and environmental context
➡️ Hands-free navigation tools such as Turn-by-Turn Navigation and Navigation App, bringing routing, search, and live travel stats into your field of view
➡️ Motion-based games like NodNinja, using head and body movement as the primary input
➡️ Live data dashboards like Airmeter and VELO Speedometer, surfacing air quality, speed, and performance in real time
➡️ Full app experiences like Rhyme and Nearby Irish Pub, bringing social feeds, media, and utility discovery into a glasses-first interface
➡️ Experimental builds and tools like Doom 3 and Full Debug, pushing XR performance, rendering, and debugging capabilities forward

Working on something? Send us a link in the DMs

ability to like and dislike a video, subscribe and save, shorts video has its own short video player, ViewTube is a full YouTube on glasses that behave like Youtube. update 2.2 is Live

As you know the default meta apps lacks not just a way for us to type an address or business and navigate to it, also the full turn by turn navigation is not available outside of USA so I built Halo Maps for Rayban Meta Display Glasses
Allowing you to use the companion web app and easily search and navigate:

It also includes speedometer HUD just like in the future they promised us in the 1980s haha

You can toggle the speedometer stealth mode and just see the speed of that’s what you need only.

You can search your saved location, navigate to home, find local recommendations and more!

Since the app is currently connected to my Google api business account I have set a max limit to only 300 api calls per day so for early free testing is available only by invite only if you want to try it send me a message on IG at future_vizion if you agree to send me bug reports and truly demo it before it goes fully live

Hi everyone,

We’re excited to announce the release of version 0.8 of the Meta Wearables Device Access Toolkit.

📌 Release Notes

• New Meta Glasses Support
• New Wifi Video Streaming Support for consistent video quality at high resolution settings
• Various APIs improvements

🔗 Check the iOS changelog and Android changelog to see full changelogs.
🔗 Check the full Documentation on Wearables Developer Center.
🔗 Post your projects on the new Meta Subreddit for AI glasses developers.

In this first episode of Through the Lens: Building for AI glasses, Oscar Falmer, Wearables Developer Advocate, welcomes Stijn Spanhove, XR Developer at InThePocket who made indoor and outdoor location based experiences with the Meta Wearables Device Access Toolkit and Web Apps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-TaxwrmtgE

A few weeks back I brought forth the Herald App Generator, I then shared its UI update in V2. Today, I’m happy to bring the Generator to V2 and renaming the entire system Studio!

🛠️ Studio V2: Make it. Host it.

Studio is the new home for building apps for your glasses, and it now works three ways:

Describe it: Tell Herald what you want in plain English and it builds a working app.

Bring your code: Link a public Git repo or upload a folder.

Make it yours: Preview it in a real glasses frame, hand-edit the code, then host it on your own URL.

Create and Build are now merged into one area, that being called studio.

I do encourage people to try and just use the Meta docs and the herald developer docs to learn and do this on your own. It’s super easy and way cheaper than any API.

Try it here: https://herald.ascents.gg/studio

💸 New pricing

For starters, you have access to host and build always free of charge. However, there are limitations to how much you can host and how you build. Free users can host 5 apps, with $5 giving 20 apps and $10 giving 50 apps. Also gives you the ability to integrate your app directly into the Herald ecosystem.

Now, for users who want to do describe and build but find themselves having issues setting up APIs etc, I’m introducing a new Builder plan. Below though explains more.

There are two ways to power your builds:

Bring your own key (BYOK): Plug in your own AI provider key and you pay that provider directly, at cost. No markup from us, so it's the cheapest way to build, and it's free to get started.

Managed credits (Builder, $20/mo): Don't want to deal with a key? Builder bundles AI credits so you can build with zero setup. If you run low, you can top up, or switch to BYOK to pay less. For record you get roughly $10 worth of API credits.

Important: Unused builder credits do not role over. Also, this is simply using Claude API with directions to help you setup apps. I cannot guarantee results and your app idea may or may not be feasible. Since these are API credits, if you used them, I cannot refund them.

Short version: BYOK is the cheapest, managed credits are the most convenient. Your call.

📸 Captures: your glasses, on a wall

Say hello to Captures, a community feed of photos and videos shot straight from the glasses. Browse what everyone is making, then post your own. It's the social side of Herald, all of it captured on device. (Staff-moderated, so keep it classy.) It of course partners well with the forum!

View it here: https://herald.ascents.gg/captures

🆕 New apps

- Govee is now live
- Nanoleaf is now live
- Mastadon is now live
- Others as well under new!

Of course, if you want to support you can always do so with the tip jar: https://buymeacoffee.com/ascentsgg

Full podcast here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWUd_K29eKM