Doom runs on Meta Ray-Ban glasses

Heise Online reported on May 16 that developer Timur Abdrakhimov had ported the original Doom to Meta’s Ray-Ban Display smart glasses, one of the first game experiments shown after Meta opened the device to outside developers. The demo puts the 1993 shooter on the glasses’ in-lens display rather than on a phone or PC screen. (heise.de) Heise said the game runs as a proof of concept more than a practical way to play, because the display is small, monocular and controlled through hand gestures. Meta began selling the Ray-Ban Display in the United States on Sept. 30, 2025, at $799 with the Neural Band included. ### Who actually got Doom onto the glasses? (heise.de) Timur Abdrakhimov was the developer named by Heise as the person behind the port. Heise said he used Meta’s newly opened developer tools to make Doom run on the Ray-Ban Display, joining a long-running programming tradition of making id Software’s game work on unusual hardware. Heise said Abdrakhimov’s version uses Meta’s “Web Apps” approach rather than a native mobile extension. That route lets developers build standalone applications with HTML, CSS and JavaScript in a browser and launch them on the glasses by URL, according to Heise and Meta’s developer materials. (heise.de) ### What does Doom look like inside the Ray-Ban Display? The Ray-Ban Display uses a waveguide screen with a 20-degree diagonal field of view, Heise reported. The image appears only to the wearer’s right eye, which Heise said makes the glasses only partly suited to longer play sessions. (heise.de) Meta describes the product as an AI-powered display glasses system controlled with the Meta Neural Band, an EMG wristband that reads muscle signals for input. In practice, that means Doom is being squeezed onto a heads-up display built for glanceable text, cards and lightweight app elements rather than a traditional game screen. That last point is an inference from Meta’s product description and Heise’s account of the demo. (heise.de) ### How do you control a shooter on smart glasses? Heise said the game is controlled through finger movements that the Meta Neural Band turns into computer commands. Meta says the band uses EMG sensors to detect muscle signals and send subtle input to the glasses. (heise.de) The control method matters because the Ray-Ban Display does not use a conventional gamepad as its primary interface. Heise’s description suggests the demo is less about comfortable play than about showing that the glasses can accept enough directional and selection input to run a recognizable version of Doom. That reading is an inference based on Heise’s reporting on the demo and Meta’s description of the input system. (meta.com) ### Why did this appear now instead of at launch? Heise said the timing followed Meta’s decision to open the Ray-Ban Display platform to developers seven months after release. Meta’s Wearables Device Access Toolkit supports iOS and Android, and the company has also made browser-based Web Apps available for the display glasses. (heise.de) Meta’s recent software updates for the device have focused on text cards, teleprompter-style use and neural handwriting features rather than games. The Doom port appeared as developers began testing what the new tools could do beyond Meta’s own built-in experiences. (heise.de) ### Where does this leave the glasses and the developers using them? Heise said early experiments are also appearing in a Meta-run subreddit for the platform. The report described Doom as one of the first visible examples of what outside developers are trying on the device now that the toolchain is public. (heise.de) Meta’s official store page says the Ray-Ban Display remains a U.S. product, while Heise reported the device is currently available only in the United States amid supply constraints and regulatory complications in the European Union. Developers who want to build similar projects can use Meta’s Web Apps tools or the Wearables Device Access Toolkit, both of which are already live. (meta.com) (heise.de)