I Replaced Meta AI on My Ray-Bans With Claude, ChatGPT & MCP

What if you could replace Meta AI on your Ray-Ban smart glasses with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, or your own AI agent connected to personal tools through MCP? That's exactly what the open-source project Visor makes possible. I've been using Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses for a while, but there's always been one frustrating limitation: regional restrictions and the inability to connect them directly to my preferred AI models and infrastructure. Until recently, I mostly used them as Bluetooth headphones and a hands-free camera. Then I discovered Visor. Created by macedonga, Visor is an independent, open-source Android client that communicates directly with Meta smart glasses over Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Direct, replacing the official Meta AI companion app. I installed it, connected an AI model through OpenRouter, added my own MCP tools, and tested what these glasses can actually do. Here's what Visor offers: • Bring your own AI model: use Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, OpenRouter, or compatible custom API endpoints. • Replace the default assistant: "Hey Meta" can send your questions to the AI model you've selected. • MCP integration: connect AI agents and external tools to your smart glasses through the Model Context Protocol. • Personal knowledge access: I connected a search tool for my own knowledge base. Now I can ask about an upcoming conference and get answers based on my notes. • Multilingual voice interaction: use the phone's speech recognition and text-to-speech capabilities for languages not supported natively by the glasses. • Local media management: photos and videos can be imported and stored directly on your Android phone. • Open-source development kit: build your own integrations using Python, TypeScript, Android, JSON-RPC, and MCP. • No Visor cloud backend: the project doesn't operate its own analytics or assistant server. AI requests still go to your chosen model provider. BUT THERE ARE LIMITATIONS. After testing Visor with my own Ray-Ban Meta glasses, here's what I found: • Android only. No iPhone support. • Setup wasn't seamless. I had to troubleshoot the connection before everything worked. • Firmware matters. My glasses wouldn't connect successfully until I updated them through Meta's official application. • Russian voice interaction works through the phone, but visual questions like "What am I looking at?" didn't work in my configuration. • Response latency is noticeable: approximately 10–20 seconds between asking a question and hearing the answer in my tests. • Initial setup still requires a Meta account, and the official Meta AI app cannot maintain a simultaneous connection. Visor is a young, actively developed project, and functionality may change between releases. But the bigger idea is fascinating. Smart glasses become much more useful when they aren't locked to a single AI provider. Imagine connecting your glasses to your personal knowledge base, local automation systems, calendar, notes, or even a custom AI agent running on your own infrastructure. That's the direction Visor is exploring. Visor GitHub: https://github.com/macedonga/visor Download the latest Android APK: https://github.com/macedonga/visor/releases/latest Official website: https://visor.macedonga.com/ Visor Development Kit: https://github.com/macedonga/visor-kit OpenRouter: https://openrouter.ai/ Visor is an independent community project, not an official Meta product. Would you replace the built-in AI on your smart glasses with your own assistant? #RayBanMeta #AIAgents #OpenSourceAI