The Meta Ray-Ban Display Can Now Unlock Your Car, I Guess

Meta has granted developers full access to the hardware in its Meta Ray-Ban Display smart glasses, leading to experimental apps that let users unlock their cars, control smart home devices, and play boxing games using head movements. The apps remain in a testing phase for developers only, highlighting the early stage of the glasses' app ecosystem despite their $800 price tag.

Developers basically just got the go-ahead from Meta to make apps for its Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses https://gizmodo.com/meta-ray-ban-display-smart-glasses-review-is-this-the-future-we-really-want-2000679520 , but things are getting interesting fast. Now that Meta has opened up access to the full spectrum https://gizmodo.com/meta-ray-ban-display-are-about-to-get-a-lot-more-chaotic-2000759107 of hardware in its smart glasses both display and Neural Band https://gizmodo.com/smart-glasses-are-forcing-wearables-to-get-very-weird-2000674309 , ideas are clearly flowing, and some of them are, uh… something. There are your expected apps like games— Tetris https://x.com/NathieVR/status/2056057596058955962?s=20 with the Neural Band, anyone?—but others are meant to be more practical. Someone thinks you should be controlling your smart home with your Meta Ray-Ban Display, using your thumb for light sliders in Google Home https://gizmodo.com/google-home-is-so-bad-that-a-lawsuit-could-be-on-its-way-2000636858 . How about a speedometer https://x.com/NathieVR/status/2058584917059969047?s=20 that shows how fast you’re moving and the distance you’ve traveled while covering up a concerning amount of your vision in the process? 🥊 I built a first person boxing game for @Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses.You dodge incoming punches by physically tilting your head The glasses' built in IMU sensors DeviceOrientationEvent API track your head movements in real-time. Game Link: https://t.co/G6MGCjkz6S pic.twitter.com/AacqfPR0mR — Rangesh 👓 @RangeshUs May 24, 2026 Or maybe you’re more of a gym kind of person. In that case, there’s this boxing app https://x.com/RangeshUs/status/2058480731974959329 or game, I guess that makes you tilt your head to dodge incoming punches. From the looks of it, the app is very basic certainly nothing like Supernatural on the Quest 3 https://gizmodo.com/meta-quest-3s-review-at-300-its-all-you-need-for-vr-2000513569 , but hey, maybe you can work on straining your neck a little bit? If I had to pick a personal favorite, it would probably be this app that literally lets you unlock your car with the Meta Ray-Ban Display https://x.com/NathieVR/status/2059807221395984823?s=20 and the Neural Band. I’m sure it could be useful for people who, unlike myself, have a car, but I also don’t think I need to stretch my imagination much to see how it could go awry, especially if someone else got their hands on your unlocked smart glasses. You can now use Meta’s smart glasses to unlock your car, change the temperature and check its battery level. pic.twitter.com/ipVHixUpZ6 — Nathie 🔜 AWE @NathieVR May 28, 2026 For now, all of these apps are really just examples of things the Meta Ray-Ban Display can do, since they’re not actively being offered for download. The developer program is for, well, developers right now, though if you wanted to test out apps, you could theoretically enable developer mode on your glasses and pop in the URL for a web app that someone has made. Even if none of these speak to you, it’s good to see people dreaming stuff up, especially because Meta’s $800 flagship smart glasses felt a little lacking in the app department at launch. Still, there’s clearly a long way to go before the product has what most would consider a vibrant app ecosystem.