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Dannark
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May 22, 2024

Suggestion for Developing an SDK for Meta Ray-ban Glasses

  • May 22, 2024
  • 29 replies
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Hey everyone,

I'm curious: will there ever be a developer kit (SDK) available for Meta glasses? I think the glasses are great, but there's not much to do with them right now. So, I thought, why not build a community around it?

If Meta releases an API or something that other apps could call or interact with indirectly (since it seems there's already a service running in the background), this could enable commands from third-party apps. This way, you could allow users to develop their own apps and further customize the experience.

For example, let's say I want to do something customizable, like turning on my smart lights using the command "Hey Meta". My own app could register a command (or more than one) so that whenever I say "Hey Meta, [do something]", this command triggers (it could be a post or a deeplink) that my app could receive and then perform the desired action, only for that command. And if this API allows me to use the camera live, like we do in Instagram livestreams, the possibilities would be endless.

Think about it, everyone. I really want to build custom experiences with this, so please consider releasing an SDK for Meta glasses.

Thanks!

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    BarrySDCA
    New Participant
    July 2, 2025
    Follow-up: There is another player in the market named "Mentra." They already offer glasses that provide captions for people with hearing disabilities. They have new glasses coming out with a widely accessible SDK. So, between Google XR and Mentra, both with strong developer support, the pressure will be on Meta to open their glasses to developers. Google XR and Mentra have a vibrant ecosystem full of developers building for these devices (they are already building and are that much further ahead). Then there will be Meta, being Meta. I can't imagine that ends well for them.
    Anonymous
    July 7, 2025

    I just wanted to let everyone in this thread know that, while we don't have anything we're ready to share at this point, we are listening and your feedback is being forwarded back to the product team. Please do continue to let us know about things like this, and we promise that as soon as we have anything to share you'll hear about it on developers.meta.com.

      DannarkAuthor
      New Participant
      July 8, 2025

      Thanks Anonymous we appreciate that. Can't wait for the news 😀.

      baroquedub
      Honored Contributor
      July 7, 2025

      Thanks Anonymous and look here, glasses...

       

      amenthius
      New Participant
      August 13, 2025

      It's kind of ridiculous or at least offer a way to add custom commands. I asked meta if it could roll a dice and it was like no can't do I can only respond if you ask me for a random number between 1 and 6, and I was like ok can you provide me with a random number from 1 to 6 when I ask you to roll a dice. 

      No can't do I can only provide you with a random number between 1 and 6 if you ask me to do that. ...

      Overpriced glasses that can't do something as simple as rolling a dice when you can literally google "roll a dice" and get a better integration from a web search engine!!...

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