HACKER Q&A
📣 zora_goron

How hackable are the Meta smart glasses?


I haven't been able to find too much online -- does anyone have a pair of the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses [0] and can speak to how easy (or possible) it is to write custom apps for personal use for the glasses?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37678860


  👤 paul7986 Accepted Answer ✓
I really like my pair yet only for taking pics and videos as that's the most reliable feature followed by Bluetooth audio for music and audio in general.

Using it to take calls and voice chat isn't that reliable and Hey Meta is very unreliable.

This version feels like smart glasses beta 1 but I do highly recommend then from my two weeks of frequent usage (bought them day they just came out) for taking pics n short videos!!

Overall good job Meta/Zuckerbrrg ..excited for the next version where all features work reliably and a few more smart features are added /work well like binoculars mode :)

To answer your question and based on my usage I don't think they could run any developer apps or programs and or reliably so. So I say closed for outside development until the next and fourth version.


👤 lnrd
I would love to hack them to trigger the camera from my smartphone instead than touching the frame. I completely understand why they did it and it's a good thing that the general public can't take pictures with it without it being obvious. But as an hobbyst street photographer I feel it would be an amazing tool to take some candid shots of street moments without attracting attention.

👤 itsyaboi
No developer support at the moment.

👤 ActorNightly
Just get cheap camera glasses on Aliexpress. Some of them use Android OTG.

👤 huytersd
It must be relatively trivial to turn off the recording light right?