Meta Opens Ray-Ban Display Glasses to Outside Developers

The handwriting headline is cute; the SDK is the real news. Meta is doing to face-worn computing what Apple did to the phone: the hardware is a Trojan horse for a developer ecosystem. Using web standards instead of a proprietary language is a deliberate land grab — it means millions of existing web developers can ship glasses apps tomorrow. The contrarian risk is demand: nobody has proven consumers want a screen on their face. But Meta is building the supply side first, betting that if the apps exist, the market follows.