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Open-source React UI and D-pad focus engine for Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Meta: Privacy-infringing highly unethical advertisement giant. Ray-Ban: Overly expensive eyewear brand, that diminishes itself with this integration. An unholy marriage. I for one am happy with the growing resistance to these spyware glasses, and in more and more places I encounter these BanRay [0] stickers to indicate they are not welcome in a store or office space.

[0] https://banray.eu/en/

Someone walked into our office wearing them. They were given a written warning. They are not welcome at a social level and they are a tangible security risk.

Is that the only device that this library could be used for?

Apple, Google, and even privacy-respecting companies are putting these out in the next year or two, as well.

What is the current take on that spectrum of offering?

I wasn’t aware Apple announced an offering.

Regardless, the general sentiment about this hardware is obviously not great, anecdotally I know zero people who own these (or they at least refuse to wear them), and they are exceptionally rare in both US major metros I frequent.

Perhaps their popularity exists moreso in print than reality?

That’s a new topic.

Can’t judge popularity until the stuff exists somewhat widely.

Most roadmaps are for 2026+,

so we’ll know if they’re popular by 2027.

I am very interested in the commercial uses (HUD while inside an electrical panel is a big one I’m looking at).

Not the only device it could serve, just the only one it serves well today, on purpose.

It's scoped to the Meta Ray-Ban Display because that's the first mainstream glasses platform you can actually buy and ship apps for(Meta released the SDK a few weeks ago).

But the foundations are patterns every one of these devices shares, so when Apple, Android XR, or others ship, what changes is mostly a device profile (viewport, input, contrast, nav, device APIs) while the component and hook abstractions carry over.

The plan is to be the de-facto toolkit for the first real platform, then generalize as the others actually exist.

So yes I would love to support them as well :)

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