Meta opened its Ray‑Ban Display to third‑party developers this week, releasing a Developer Preview that lets creators build both native mobile apps and web experiences for the AI‑powered glasses. The rollout will begin over the next several weeks, giving early adopters a chance to experiment before the platform fully launches, and integrate with existing ecosystems such as Facebook Portal.

Developers can tap the Meta Wearables Device Access Toolkit, a native SDK for iOS and Android that supplies UI components—text, images, lists, buttons, video playback—and a separate web path using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The glasses’ Neural Band interprets hand gestures, enabling overlays such as live sports scores or media streams without building a custom hardware stack, and supports real‑time data syncing across devices.

Meta also confirmed that its Muse Spark large‑language model will power the Display later this summer, bringing faster, multimodal AI assistance to the device. With Connect 2026 slated for late September, the company is positioning the glasses as a hub for AI, VR and wearable innovation, signaling a bid to stay competitive as rivals roll out their own smart spectacles, early developer demos already showcase immersive navigation.