81: From Zero to Polish: Building Meta Ray-Ban Display

You've likely heard of Meta Ray-Ban Display by now — but what's it actually like to work on it? In this episode, Pascal talks to Kenan and Emanuel about the exciting features of Meta's First-Gen Display Glasses and Neural Wristband, the engineering and product challenges they encountered during development, and their vision for future generations of these devices. 

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Links

• Pyrefly Beta: https://pyrefly.org/blog/pyrefly-beta/

• Pyrefly and Pydantic: https://pyrefly.org/blog/pyrefly-pydantic/ 

• Meta Ray-Ban Display: https://www.meta.com/gb/ai-glasses/meta-ray-ban-display/ 

Timestamps

• Intro 0:06

• Introduction Kenan 1:35

• Introduction Emanuel 5:03

• Roles and responsibilities 8:07

• What is Meta Ray-Ban Display? 11:13

• Memorable challenges: Clasps 15:52

• Memorable challenges: Display 19:24

• Celebrating incremental wins 23:51

• The feedback cycle in hardware engineering 26:29

• Open culture and dogfooding 31:39

• One-way doors 32:44

• Striving for quality and polish in fast-moving environments 36:25

• UI principles for AI glasses 40:15

• Future Plans 44:04

• Outro 46:53

• Blooper 47:49