Contact
Cooking HUD title graphic in orange and blue lettering on a kitchen counterCooking HUD title graphic in orange and blue lettering on a kitchen counter

Cooking HUD  • Declassified
A hands-free recipe coach, built for Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses

L+R Spatial logo

Client since 2012

The Platform

Ray-Ban Display glasses embed a transparent display directly in the lens, projecting information into your line of sight without blocking what's in front of you. Think of it as a heads-up display you wear all day. Paired with the Meta Neural Band worn on the wrist, they respond to simple hand gestures — no touchscreen, no voice commands, no reaching for anything. It's a computer you wear, not one you carry.

Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses showing an on-lens card beside the Meta Neural BandMeta Ray-Ban Display glasses showing an on-lens card beside the Meta Neural Band
Meta Ray-Ban Display — glasses with a screen built into the lens
Cooking HUD Is Built For

Home cooks

Anyone who follows a recipe while actively cooking, managing heat, timing, and technique at once. Especially useful for complex meals with multiple components running simultaneously.

Person chopping garlic on a board beside an open laptop in a sunlit kitchenPerson chopping garlic on a board beside an open laptop in a sunlit kitchen
Person cooking pasta in a skillet while reading a recipe on an open laptopPerson cooking pasta in a skillet while reading a recipe on an open laptop
People cooking with a wok beside chopped vegetables and an open laptopPeople cooking with a wok beside chopped vegetables and an open laptop
Solution

A recipe coach that moves through the meal with you

A heads-up display that walks you through a recipe in three phases, completely hands-free. No phone to unlock, no tablet to scroll, no cookbook to wrestle with. Just the next step, always in view.

Cooking HUD title graphic in orange and blue lettering on a kitchen counterCooking HUD title graphic in orange and blue lettering on a kitchen counter
Shop, Prep, Cook — one display, three modes
How Cooking HUD works

The app moves through three stages. Shop surfaces your ingredient list before you start. Prep walks you through chopping, mixing, and measuring. Cook manages multiple timers simultaneously while keeping the next step in view. Comes preloaded with recipes. From the grocery store to the table, you never need to touch a phone, a tablet, or a cookbook.

About L+R Baseplates

An open-source starting point from our team

This is a Baseplate application — one of dozens of open-source foundations built by L+R as part of our alpha partnership with Meta on the Ray-Ban Display platform. Baseplates aren't always finished products. They're minimal, readable, and forkable. Built to show what's possible and give developers a working foundation to learn from and build on.

See it in action

Play with Cooking HUD live

Check the source code 

View Cooking HUD on GitHub →

The Bottom Line

Cooking HUD uses smart glasses to keep recipe guidance where a home cook is already looking. The business lesson is simple: useful technology meets people inside the task, not outside it. The L+R method is to connect strategic design, technical execution, and craft so new technology becomes a business advantage, with AI supporting the work only when it adds utility. If your idea needs to fit naturally into everyday workflows, reach out when it is time to build.

More Content You May Enjoy