Meta Will Let Outside Developers Create Ai-powered Apps For Its Smart Glasses

Meta's lineup of smart glasses could soon get a batch much capabilities. The institution will statesman allowing extracurricular developers to bring their apps to its RayBan and Oakley smart glasses, Meta announced connected nan 2nd time of its Connect event.

Up to now, Meta has only had a constricted number of third-party integrations for its glasses, pinch apps for illustration Spotify and Audible. But Meta will now let developers to commencement experimenting pinch apps that tin return advantage of nan built-in sensors and audio capabilities of its glasses. This intends different companies will beryllium capable to create their ain civilization experiences that usage Meta's multimodal AI features.

The institution is already moving pinch a group of early partners, for illustration Twitch, which is creating livestreaming capabilities for nan glasses, and Disney, which is experimenting pinch an app for wrong its parks. A demo video shows a visitant stepping astir Disneyland and asking nan AI adjunct astir nan rides she's seeing and different parkland information. 18Birdies, a play app, is moving connected an integration that tin springiness players nine recommendations and yardage stats.

Notably, these apps each look for illustration they activity pinch Meta's non-display glasses, which intends that moreover group who person first-gen Ray-Ban Meta glasses could spot a bunch of added caller functionality. It's not clear if nan institution will besides let developers to besides build experiences that tin return advantage of nan show connected its newest Meta Ray-Ban Display frames, but that could unfastened up moreover much possibilities.

Meta's caller group of tools, officially called nan "Wearables Device Access Toolkit," will rotation retired arsenic a limited developer preview ahead of broader readiness successful 2026.