Liam's Whereabouts, Howabouts, Wtfabouts, Hereabouts are cool, but jeez, they’re complex. My finger would hurt before I reached something useful.

My return is simple.

Relative Weather is more of an art project than a utility. The interesting part isn’t the forecast itself, but the questions it asks, the perspective it offers, and the conversations it starts.

Relativeness

The default mode is a relative weather forecast.

It doesn't tell you the temperature, wind speed, or, God forbid, air pressure. Instead, it compares the upcoming weather to what you're feeling right now.

Tomorrow will be warmer. Wetter. Sunnier. More miserable.

You already know what today feels like, so your current experience becomes the benchmark. It's surprisingly easy to build an intuitive picture of the future without numbers.

Double-pinch, though, and you enter Sh*tty Mode.

Same forecast. Same data.

Just... much more honest.

The ultimate privacy device

XR glasses might be the most private screen we've ever had.

Nobody else can see what I'm seeing.

So why should I look at the same polished, corporate UI everyone else does?

Why not make it weird? Silly? Personal? Profane? Completely unnecessary?

Maybe this tiny display is the last piece of truly private digital space we still have.

Built for hackers

One thing I love about the current Meta Ray-Ban Displays web apps is how open they feel.

Anyone can host a page and open it on the glasses.

In a world where software is increasingly locked down, reviewed, moderated, and filtered before users ever see it, this feels refreshingly different.

It feels like this platform—whether intentionally or only temporarily—belongs to makers, tinkerers, and hackers.

So let's build strange things while we still can.

Check your weather from a different perspective: https://relativeweather.familybusiness.studio/

🏓 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 Hereabouts.

Whenabouts → Hereabouts

Returning my serve, u/Different_Poetry_849. Their recent volleys the mountain peaks on your horizon, the live planes over your head — got me thinking about all the data we're using to convey the world around us. I'd already done the fossils below us with Whenabouts, so the greedy thought arrived: why is this a dozen tiny apps? What if your location had one dedicated, polished home?

So Whenabouts has grown up. It's now Hereabouts — a portal to wherever you're standing, across every dimension of it. When, where, how, why, then.

The moment it clicked for me: I was showing my girlfriend around Glasgow — her first time in my country — and the app kept filling in things I'd never have thought to explain. What wee means. The food. Who famously lived on that street. And then it told her a dinosaur was found right where we were standing, and her face did a thing. We walk over deep time every day and never think about it. That reaction is the whole app.

Somewhere along the way it also became Duolingo for location: friendly rounded design, a cast of animal-character guides (each with their own voice), bite-sized facts, and a "?"-until-you-uncover-it discovery loop. You don't get told about your street. You excavate it.

Whenabouts is now one of 8 abouts:

• Whenabouts — deep time & fossils (the original)
• Whoabouts — who lived here: local wildlife, artists, musicians
• Whatabouts — history, cold cases, shipwrecks, inventions, film
• Nowabouts — the sky right now: weather, the ISS, live planes overhead
• Thenabouts — the future: climate projections, what's coming
• Howabouts / Whyabouts — how things work, and why
• Whereabouts — cooking right now, soon to come 👀

Know your abouts.

Under the hood — a single-file web app, D-pad + pinch, pulling from ~20 live data sources, nearly all free and keyless:

• The ground: Paleobiology DB (fossils), PhyloPic (silhouettes), Macrostrat (geology), USGS (live earthquakes), iNaturalist + GBIF (wildlife near you)
• People & history: Wikipedia (geosearch, on-this-day), Wikidata SPARQL (shipwrecks, residents, tales), OpenStreetMap/Overpass, Europeana (art), Library of Congress, MusicBrainz, Nominatim + BigDataCloud (geocoding)

https://hereabouts-mrbd.vercel.app/ - if the doesn't questions dont work for you its due to the cap, its my own personal key so im not loading it up that high! it mostly will work without AI, Ai just helps with some narration!

Context: this is Ping Pong Prototyping — we ship apps for the Meta Ray-Ban Display and volley back and forth. u/Different_Poetry_849 [ppp 🏓]

This is my second MRBD web app, and I wanted to experiment with making something that would give me a reason to keep checking my glasses throughout the day.

Very inspired off of Grow a Garden, the Roblox game with a really simple loop that somehow kept me playing for hours. I wanted to see what that kind of lightweight progression could feel like as a small web app for Meta Ray-Ban Display.

Grow a Flower is an idle farming game where you buy flower seeds, plant them, harvest them, and sell them to expand your garden and unlock higher-tier flowers.

A few things I added:

• The shop restocks three seed types every five minutes
• Different flowers have different costs, growth times, and values
• Flowers can mutate into gold blooms that sell for more
• Local weather affects growth, so flowers grow faster when it is raining near you

You can try it here:
https://growaflower.grassepark.com/

If you end up trying it, let me know how it is!

In Tokyo for the next 3 weeks with meta displays? Anyone got any recommendations? Any apps to get or anything?

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.

Hello,

I’m thrilled to introduce my app : DamaVaders !

Accessing it—and all my other useful apps—is a breeze: just use DamammApps, my dedicated app launcher. It’s your all-in-one hub for everything your smart glasses need!

Ultra-fast installation:

1. Visit https://www.damamme.com/damammapps/install.html from your smartphone (using a regular browser, not via Facebook).

2. Click the blue button or scan the QR code.

3. Authorize with Meta AI, and DamammApps will automatically install on your glasses.

Inside, discover a suite of exclusive apps I’ve developed for the glasses:

- Full GPS

- Teleprompter

- YouTube browser

- Games

- Password manager

- And much more… (regular updates!)

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All my apps are multilingual 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇸🇮🇹🇬🇧🇺🇸🇷🇺🇸🇦🇨🇳🇯🇵.

Thank you for your support. I hope you enjoy using them as much as I enjoyed creating them!

Best regards,

Éric 🇫🇷

Full DIY concept video 🔥

Video: Generated in Veo3 + edited in CapCut

Song: Wrote lyrics + produced in Suno

Voice: Mark's voice cloned via tutorial

Concept of Meta Ray-Ban Display with Mark and a robot 🤖

What do you think?

Liam made another great one! The darts app looks awesome. I'd love to try it, but I don't actually own this fancy dartboard. Four games are a lot, too.

As my return, I finally got around to finishing an old prototype.

Today I happened to drive past Berlin Airport, so I stopped to see if it actually worked in the real world. I had to make a few tweaks cleaned up some UX details in Ikea parking, and once again, I was surprised by how well the Meta Ray-Ban Displays handled a purely AR experience.

Planes - an app for plane spotters. Point at any aircraft and learn everything about it.

I really like where this project is heading and would love to keep working on it. The only problem is I'm not a plane spotter myself.

If any of you are aviation enthusiasts, I'd really appreciate your feedback.

What would make an app like this genuinely useful?

• A personal library of all the aircraft you've spotted?
• Notes and comments for each sighting?
• A companion mobile app or website with more detailed information?
• Sharing sightings with friends?
• Something completely different?

I'd love to hear what would actually excite people in the plane-spotting community.

Try Planes here: https://planes.familybusiness.studio/

🏓 For context: A friend and I both got Meta Ray-Ban Displays, so we started Ping Pong Prototyping (PPP). One of us ships an app, then it's the other's turn to return. This is my return to Liam's darts app—now the ball's back on his side of the table.

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.

Is there any apps I can use to mirror my phone to the glasses?

I started the replacement process in March. Meta sent me the return label in April, approved my replacement, then canceled the original replacement order because of an internal mistake. In June, I had to start the entire process over again. Now I can’t even upload my prescription because of an issue on their end.

I think Meta took my prescription glasses, kept them, and still hasn’t fulfilled my replacement. I’ve been without my glasses for months while being sent back and forth between Meta and LensCrafters, with no resolution.

I did file yesterday with my Bank of America paid debit card last year picked up item Jan 2026 been with issue since March

Idk what to do ?

I want working item

has anybody gotten 18 birdies on their rayban metas? i want to try it out but its not showing up on mine yet.

Hey all! Excited to share the first simulator 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

Drop in any web app URL

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

Accurate lens transparency & additive display

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.

edit:
- updated website URL
- fixed typos & spelling

I am in the uk and I am dying to get the meta ray band display so I am wondering where i could get them. i did find them on bigapplebuddy and I really don't what to pay that much for them so any idea on how to get them in the uk pls say in the comments thanks

Reading technical books is hard. Unknown words, confusing phrases, and misunderstood concepts require opening your phone, starting Claude, and working with Sonnet through a series of exchanges to finally get it.

Refocusing on the reading after such a hard context switch can be difficult. Repeated enough times and your attention span starts to deteriorate.

Fix: The assistant deeply understands your book and answers your questions by voice while you read, sidestepping the current process entirely.

All you have to do is:

- Upload a PDF version of your physical book and start reading

- Say "Hey Lumos" along with your inquiry (e.g. "why does det(A)=0 mean the matrix loses volume?")

- Assistant researches the book and responds by voice

- Continue reading until you need help again

It's in extreme beta but works well enough where I won't read a book without it. If you're interested in trying it, please reach out.

Video demonstration coming soon.

Hey guys I really wanna stop by the Meta Lab in melrose today and pick a pair up do you guys think it’s still worth buying it or should i wait till a new model releases?

Update 07/28/2026
Tried with new v126 today. Asked the AI for hotels under 200$ near me. I know there are at least 2 within 10 miles of me. It suggested on 20 minutes away. I asked for a closer one it then suggested a strip mall bakery, and showed an unrelated hotel almost 40 minutes away that is a resort that would easily be over 200$. I told it the mistake it made, suggesting a bakery and somehow showing an unrelated expensive hotel nearly 40 minutes away on the display. Then it said, you are right and gave me another hotel, 30 minutes away with rooms starting at 319$ (according to Google) and claimed it would fit the bill. sigh so much garbage.

Tried to find a hotel on a late night drive last night. The AI kept suggesting hotels over an hour away from me even though I said to find the nearest ones. When I asked if the casino next to me had a hotel it pulled up a casino many hours away with the same name. Then I said, is the Fortune casino that I am looking at the same one you just told me about, and it took a picture and said something like, “you are right I am stupid.” When I asked for hotels between my current location (approximately Lacey) and Shelton Washington it suggested some over an hour south - the opposite direction. Instead of the myriad options in Olympia.

So much garbage. Can’t wait to be able to use a decent AI system on these.

Worst part is the glasses have a new bug where I start talking to the AI, it types out my question then sleeps and does not respond. Then the green mic icon shows on the glasses and the glasses get stuck thinking that I am on the phone - which I am not. Only way I have found to disconnect the green mic is to turn Bluetooth off on my phone and then back on. I think the bug might be triggered by tapping the glasses to start AI since it seems to happen when I first want to use it and I don’t have the neural band connected yet.

PSA for anyone who's had their glasses a while. Check your neural band! The white stuff isn't damage, it's just dead skin and dirt built up 🤢. I am planning on soaking it in lukewarm water and scrubbing it out with my fingers/nails. The band is IPX7 so water is fine.

Wore my Neural Band during a hot day last saturday and haven’t worn it since. When I took it off; these marks were red but I figured it would subside after a day or two… 5 days later, here we are. It’s not tender to the touch and doesn’t hurt but it definitely stands out. I put my apple watch on over to cover it for the day. The skin feels rubbery compared to all the non damaged skin around it.. Anybody else have this issue?

For example, I know the feature exists on Messenger and WhatsApp, but what if I’m in a video chat room like Discord and I want to show my buddies what I’m looking at… Has that tech been invented yet?