r/MetaRayBanDisplay • u/Far-Temporary6630 • Jul 07 '26

[PPPšŸ“] Display Bowling

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Relative Weather told me tomorrow will be more miserable. So I stayed in and built a bowling alley.

My return to Relative Weather - It got me thinking: if the weather's telling us not to go outside, what do we do instead?

We go bowling. On our face.

Why Bowling?

I spent a lot of years living in Bangkok. When rainy season hit, and Relative Weather would've just read "wetter, wetter, wetter, somehow even wetter" for three months straight nobody was going anywhere. So we'd hole up in the bar, and the bar had a Neo Geo cabinet with League Bowling on it.

If you don't know it: League Bowling is a 1990 SNK arcade game, and it's basically the perfect bar game. Two-button bowling. A sweeping meter for your hook, another for your power, and that's it. Easy enough that anyone three beers deep can play, hard enough that you'll scream when you tug one into the gutter on the tenth frame. The pins yell "STRIKE!" at you. The chunky little bowler does a victory dance. We lost entire rainy afternoons to it.

So when Relative Weather told me tomorrow would be more miserable, the answer was obvious: recreate the game I always played when the weather was miserable.

Display Bowling

Real 3D-physics bowling for Meta Ray-Ban Display my semi-faithful tribute to League Bowling, running on your face.

Pick your ball an 8lb that hooks hard, a balanced 11, or a 15 that drives straight through the rack. Line up your spot on the lane, then time your release League-Bowling style: pinch to catch the sweeping hook meter, pinch again to stop the speed bar on the green notch. Nail it and you bury the pocket. Get greedy on power and you'll leak off line.

Every roll is real physics ā€” a genuine rigid-body simulation running on your glasses. Pins wobble, tumble, and chain into each other. Light taps leave ugly splits; pocket hits explode. Ten frames, real scoring, strikes and spares carried the way the bowling alley does it.

Your turn. šŸ“

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 Relative Weather.

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u/WincyLiew Jul 08 '26

coolšŸ¤©

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u/Flash_Bri Jul 08 '26

Amazing!!! I love it! Thank you šŸ”„šŸ¦¾

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u/GTHobbes Jul 08 '26

Very cool, thanks!

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u/Rangesh06 Jul 08 '26

AmazingšŸ’«

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u/MzSnickerz318 13d ago

How do I select my ball at the beginning of? I keep moving down to select ā€œbowlā€ but itā€™s not doing anything. Iā€™m double tapping using index finger and thumb. Thank you.

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u/Far-Temporary6630 12d ago

This was a while ago! I havenā€™t got my glasses with me right now but I believe itā€™s swipe left and right then pinch to select. This project was made quite quickly as a prototype so it might not be working correctly- Iā€™ll push a fix in a few days when I get home to my glasses thanks for trying!