You Can Now Make Apps on Meta Display Glasses if You Want To

Google's I/O developer conference is happening next week, and we expect news on a range of Gemini-powered, app-connected smart glasses arriving this year. Meta chose a good time to announce that it's opened up app development for its 6-month-old Ray-Ban Display glasses.

When Meta announced its single-display smart glasses last September at the company's Connect developer conference, many developers were surprised that there was no way to make any actual apps for them. The lack of app support made the expensive, hard-to-buy Ray-Ban Displays feel like a limited subset of what you could do on your phone.

The app development initiative announced Thursday says apps could be made as standalone experiences or connected to phone apps on iOS and Android, which could be extremely useful. Meta's also allowing web apps to be built that can extend via phone browser into heads-up-display experiences on the glasses, which might be easier...

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