Amy Erz turns real places into experiences you move through in time — bespoke, glasses-first, built for Meta Ray-Ban Display. Building on Meta's smart glasses since the platform opened to developers, and named by Lenslist as one of the early contributors to the platform.
— On the work
I make webapps that take you outside — onto the events, the city, the street — and turn a single location into something you move through in time: what it was, what’s happening now, and what comes next.
“Her work illustrates how the earliest Meta Ray-Ban Display experiences are not only about new formats, but also about rethinking how digital content behaves when it is directly connected to physical space.”
— From the editors at Lenslist
On Amy's place on the platform: “Amy Erz is one of the early contributors to exploring this area, building location-based experiences for Meta Ray-Ban Display.”
Read the spotlight on the lenslist.co blog ↗An unofficial companion for WWDC week, in Apple’s 50th year. The week becomes an event you move through: live keynote predictions stacked against the rumor mill and scored to the second the keynote begins, plus a patch hunt across Apple’s historic sites and the California places macOS is named for.
WWDC · Keynote · Apple at 50Visit ↗Stand where the movies were shot. Scenein surfaces hand-curated clips of films and shows filmed around San Francisco, pinned to the exact spot — with TMDB details for every title.
Film · Geo · TMDBVisit ↗An unofficial heads-up companion for a BTS concert at Stanford. Attendees navigate the campus and stadium and ride the night with a spatial HUD built for the show.
Concert · HUD · WayfindingVisit ↗My first Ray-Ban Display concept — born from a fascination with how Silicon Valley got built. A walking history of the garages, labs and milestones that made the Valley.
Heritage · Trail · First ConceptVisit ↗An unofficial companion to the Big Art Loop — San Francisco’s trail of monumental public art. The nearest of thirteen works surfaces as you walk, with the story behind each piece, the artist who made it, and a spoken audio tour in English, German or French. One build for every pair: the same webapp runs on Meta Ray-Ban Display and on Meta’s audio-only smart glasses, with no separate version for either.
Public Art · Audio Tour · GPS · EN / DE / FRVisit ↗An unofficial prototype for the UN’s 80th anniversary — a self-guided walking trail of the seven San Francisco landmarks tied to the 1945 founding of the United Nations, from opening gavel to the signing of the Charter.
UN 80 · Trail · LandmarksVisit ↗A prototype for what a fashion show feels like through glasses. The cue is time, not place: each look is pushed at the moment that model starts walking, so its story reaches you while the garment is still in front of you — as narration or as text on the display, whichever the wearer picks. During the show you get one look at a time and nothing more; when the last one has walked, the full lookbook opens and the whole collection is yours to go back through. Not made with, for, or on behalf of any fashion house.
Time-Cued · Test Build · Lookbook · OfflineThe rest of this site is glasses-first apps. This one is the web those apps live on — an independent aggregator that follows smart eyewear across every company building it, pulling the day’s headlines, official newsroom posts, prices and release dates into one place, with every item linked back to whoever actually published it. There is a desk per company, a developer guide comparing what each platform asks of you, and a buying guide that knows what country you are in. It publishes no reporting of its own, it is not affiliated with any company it covers, and some product links are affiliate links.
Smart Eyewear · News · Aggregation · Affiliate LinksOpen smartglasses.today ↗Independent of the companies it covers. Aggregates and links out; publishes no reporting of its own. Some product links are affiliate links.
Every project takes you outside, to somewhere real. What differs is the cue — usually arrival: stand in a place and see what it was and what’s happening now. Sometimes it’s the clock instead, and a live moment brings itself to you, second by second, while you stay put.
Scenein replays the films shot on these streets; Silicon Valley History traces how the Valley got built.
BTS Stanford rides a live concert in real time; Runway Stories cues a fashion show look by look, on the show’s own clock.
What isn't built yet — the next place, the next platform, the next way to wear time. The work always leaves room for it.
Experiences that only exist where they are meant to be lived — tied to a street, a building, a step.
The past, rendered in place; the present moment, made touchable. History you can walk through.
Built for a glance, not a stare. Glasses-first, web-native, and gone the moment you look away.
Whether you’re a studio, a team, or simply curious, I’d be glad to connect. If there’s something you’d like to explore, please feel free to reach out.