Ata Dogan

Product Design @ Meta Ray-Ban Display, Prev. Project Orion, Local Multiplayer @Meta, AR design @GoogleARVR & @PokerStars

[Ata Dogan @Ata_Dogan1]

The last 3 years of my life have been spent building Meta Ray-Ban Display 🕶️ with the most talented people in the world.

What began as a small team with a big dream grew into something far bigger than we ever could have imagined.

So hyped for y’all to try it!

[Ata Dogan @Ata_Dogan1]

@davidsven Keep it up proud of you! 😘

[Storm @Storm_Griffith]

I got the Meta RayBan Display yesterday. Some thoughts for an initial x post beyond hello world.

Display: Very usable in all situations, crispy even. Direct sunlight, or changing lighting conditions. All of these were handled mostly by the auto brightness while being totally obfuscated from others. I mean nobody (100+ people) asked about my glasses. I did have to manually tweak the brightness one time going from living room to dark bedroom.
Eye strain is a thing if you use the display too much (uhh..3-4 hrs? More testing today.). Taking them off felt like one eye was stuck at another focal plane for a few minutes which was a weird disconnect. Reminds me of using early VR headsets.
Colors are bright and true and you can tell the designers are flexing by making each icon different in the color gamut. A really beautiful screen.
No visual artifacts. Just there when I wanted it. Gone when I didn't.

Comfort: It began to noticably feel like it was there at hour 5-6 of wearing them. I have used HMDs for 11 years and I wear MRB Gen 1.5 but you can tell these are slightly heavier on the nose. The nose pad is huge af to spread out weight. Good design there. I skipped on large frames to save any weight possible and despite this, the extendable hinges allowed the glasses to gently hug my huge head. No side pressure that I don't already endure from normal glasses of various types in my daily life.

The neural band is extremely comfy. You do NOT have to choke your arm off for it to work flawlessly. I forgot every time I took off the glasses that it was on my wrist. The clasping mechanism and the materials the bracelet use are incredibly effective at making it feel zero force. 10/10 the most comfortable wearable tech I've used.

Interface, control: The neural band is an amazing way to control technology. A short learning curve. Using your own hand as a d-pad is sick 😫. Very high accuracy. I maybe erred in input ~5% of the time. I mess up on the keyboard and my phone, too. It seems within tolerance for wider use cases. The hardest gesture to master is the pinch and twist imo. It requires me to really grab that little imaginary knob. 😅 I put the glasses on someone else and started controlling them. Through the haptic pulses and my own (brief) memory of the utilitarian UI, I was able to quickly show what it can do to someone else on the first attempt. What. Using the gestures anywhere (by my side, in a pocket, behind the back) is just too slick. 👌
Settings are sparse. Volume, brightness, an option to tilt the screen +/-3 degrees to align better with individual users eyes. I tilted mine -1.5deg.
The biggest strength of this device is the AI. The assistant is was able to provide me real-time maps to 2 locations first try before a phone user could summon the result, it identified different objects I showed it, was able to conjure pictures of things I had not yet seen and learned about and I even asked it to show me a picture of my house. It delivered (sketch..)! Step-by-step instructions (for cooking, repairing, building-type questions etc.) are swiped through left to right. Dictating and sending messages and issuing commands for device control (take a photo, call x, message y) was simple and I even asked the AI to truncate its responses and it said it noted that I'd like it to be less wordy in its memory. I didn't expect that to work but it did. Neat.
Live translation works well in one on one conversations. In a party, with a person speaking to me in spanish I started live translation and it flubbed hard so I had to bail. Live captioning also couldn't cope with a party atmosphere but worked well in a regular scenario with one or two people speaking. Overall impressive for launch. 1/2

[Ata Dogan @Ata_Dogan1]

Crazy seeing people use navigation out in the world. We spent soooo much time building almost everything from scratch! A truly surreal moment for me, and I couldn’t be prouder of the whole team! 🕶️🗺️ @DesignatMeta

[Nathie 🔜 AWE @NathieVR]

Here’s a first look at the navigation feature on the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses. Aside from one bug of walking backwards and Meta AI mishearing a different address, it has successfully guided me to several locations. Solid connection, accurate and feels natural to use.

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

NEW VIDEO - In the midst of all the iPhone hype, a different piece of tech that REALLY impressed me: https://t.co/6DXFb3qtEl

[Jake Steinerman 🌎 @jasteinerman]

You can now start building apps for AI Glasses using the new Wearables Device Access Toolkit (DAT)!

[Reality Labs at Meta @RealityLabs]

Introducing Meta Ray-Ban Display: A Breakthrough Category of AI Glasses https://t.co/NmeQmjm4DU

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

NEWS: Meta has officially unveiled its $799 Meta Ray-Ban Display AI glasses.

• Color 600-by-600-pixel resolution
• 20-degree field of view
• 5,000 nits of max brightness
• 2% light leakage, making it hard for other people to see that there is a display
• Gesture control with an EMG wristband that translates the signals created by your muscle activity into commands for your glasses
• Comes with transition lenses, and the brightness adjusts depending on ambient UV light
• Monocular: display only appears in the one lens
• Microphones, speakers, cameras

Meta: "The display is placed off to the side, so it doesn’t obstruct your view. And it isn’t on all the time — it’s designed for short interactions that you’re always in control of. This isn’t about strapping a phone to your face. It’s about helping you quickly accomplish some of your everyday tasks without breaking your flow. It’s the first product that takes microphones, speakers, cameras, and a full-color display backed with compute and AI — and puts it all together in a single device that’s stylish and comfortable."

Hits U.S. shelves Sept 30th. Expansion to Canada, France, Italy, and the UK is planned for early 2026.

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

Respect to Meta for being first to actually ship this

[Ata Dogan @Ata_Dogan1]

Can’t wait to share what I’ve been up to for the past 3 years of my life

[Ata Dogan @Ata_Dogan1]

Can confirm this game is the most fun I've had in MR!
🔥🔥🔥

[Meta Quest @MetaQuestVR]

Get ready to play Spatial Ops - a pulse-pounding, mixed reality first person shooter adventure - launching on Meta Quest in late 2024.

Wishlist on Meta Quest: https://t.co/xKNCUGtBPe

[Jackie Chui @jackiechuichui]

As part of this Config update, we've made some quality-of-life improvements to auto layout!

1. Hold Ctrl to ignore auto layout and position items absolutely

[Ata Dogan @Ata_Dogan1]

@natsaulia Mid-Senior but would be open to considering junior peeps!

[Ata Dogan @Ata_Dogan1]

Hey peeeps, I'm hiring a product designer for a 6-month contract position to work on our veeeery cool wearable projects here at Meta! You'll have the opportunity to shape and contribute to key experiences!

DM me if interested or if you know someone who'd be a good fit! 🔥🔥🔥

[Ata Dogan @Ata_Dogan1]

@tahahossain_ @fahdananta @internetvin @robjama fit goin craaaaazy 🔥🔥🔥

[thano @thanosipsis]

With the release of @Google's Gemini Pro API, I built out @FacebookOrigami prototypes for vision & text. Would love to see what y'all end up building 🙂

[Ata Dogan @Ata_Dogan1]

Yoooo, I designed that! So pumped to see it launch! 🚀

It was a long journey and a massive team effort. Super proud to give users the choice and control over their data and enable some awesome new experiences!

[Luna @Lunayian]

Someone I'm in a Discord server with got this in a pop-up on Quest 2 after updating to v57. It states that enabling Point Cloud sharing will allow your headset to remember Boundaries more reliably.

[Ata Dogan @Ata_Dogan1]

YOOOO follow me on Threads! Huge shoutout to @tarekoyou for the free clout 😂 don't follow him here though follow him on Threads!

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

For some threads: https://t.co/HfflrTlWqt

[Meta Horizon Developers @MetaHorizonDevs]

Start building local multiplayer experiences on Meta Quest Pro with Shared Spatial Anchors, available now with Platform SDK v47. Shared Spatial Anchors create shared world-locked frames of reference for multiple users and enable you to: 🧵