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As momentous as it was for Meta to shove a display inside its smart glasses with the Meta Ray-Ban Display, whatever excitement the hardware generated was betrayed by the software side of things. The fact is, there just weren’t a ton of apps to use inside the company’s $800 smart glasses at launch, though things might finally be rounding the corner.
Meta has opened up the Ray-Ban Display, which means developers can now make web apps that use the screen and the Neural Band, and launch them on the smart glasses via a URL. To be clear, this is for developers at the moment, but the early results are definitely interesting, and they’re a good sign for anyone who is left wanting for more from their pricey smart glasses. If you’re into early adoption, you can enable Meta’s developer mode on your Ray-Ban Display and start messing around yourself, but any apps you can get access to (again, you’ll need the URL from the developer) will likely be a work in progress.
The gap between idea and prototype has never been smaller. Add glasses and inputs like the Neural Band, and it feels like the early days of building in a way we haven't seen in over a decade.
We're rolling out web apps and a mobile SDK on Meta Ray-Ban Display. Developer Preview… pic.twitter.com/OlDayAkozd
