Spanhove hacks Meta Ray-Ban Display for a Strava-powered ghost race while you run

The indie builder layered Strava GPX, pace coins, and sprint zones into a browser app that runs directly on the glasses, saying it works without a flagship phone.

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Why it matters

Developers are probing practical, on-the-move use cases for consumer AR. A simple, browser-based ghost race hints at fitness overlays that work without a phone and without heavyweight native apps.

Illustration of Spanhove using Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses showing a Strava-powered ghost race route and pace markers in the heads-up display.

Stijn Spanhove (@stspanho) showed off a browser-based running game for the Meta Ray-Ban Display that lets him race his own ghost, he said in a thread on X

The demo overlays a previous GPX route exported from Strava and adds lightweight game mechanics while you run.…

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