If your stream is mostly your hands, a repair, an unboxing, a build, a guitar lesson, the best camera angle is your own eyes. I made Meta G Link Direct, a free, open-source plugin that turns Ray-Ban Meta glasses into a live camera and microphone inside OBS Studio. As of version 0.5 it runs on Windows, Linux and macOS.

First-person video from the glasses in OBS at 30 fps: hands typing and waving in front of a monitor and a laptop

What makes it different

Most ways to stream from these glasses run through a phone: an app on the phone relays the video to a streaming service, or to OBS over RTMP. This plugin skips the phone entirely.

  • Straight into OBS. The glasses show up as a native OBS source. Video and audio come over the glasses' own short-range Wi-Fi network, with Bluetooth for control. No phone app, no router or hotspot setup, and your home network isn't involved.
  • It follows your scenes. The glasses connect when a scene with the glasses source goes live and disconnect when none is live. With Keep connected while OBS is open, a source starts in about a second instead of about 13.
  • Real 30 fps. Portrait 720 × 1280 at 30 fps by default; 1080 × 1920, 504 × 896 and 360 × 640 are also verified. The glasses' radio sends video in bursts, so the plugin re-times every frame to play at a steady 30 fps. Measured from glass to OBS, that's about 0.4 s behind.
  • The glasses' microphones too. 48 kHz stereo, either with the camera or as a separate microphone source with the camera off. In a clap test, audio and video matched within one frame.
  • Small things that help on stream. OBS's audio monitor can play through the glasses' speakers, and the glasses' battery level goes to a text file (for an OBS text source or a Stream Deck key) and to obs-websocket.
  • Private. Meta is contacted only during the one-time setup. No telemetry, no update checks, no recordings.

The glasses source's settings inside OBS: video quality, microphones, Wi-Fi adapter and setup

Now on Linux and macOS

Version 0.5 added Linux and macOS alongside Windows 11. In tests with real glasses, each of these got 30 fps video, audio and the battery readout:

  • Windows 11 with OBS 33.0.1
  • Ubuntu 26.04 with its own OBS, and with the OBS Flatpak (the Flatpak build runs on any distribution)
  • macOS 15 on an Intel Mac mini with OBS 33.0.1. On a Mac, a small helper app handles Bluetooth and joining the glasses' network, which OBS can't do itself.

The Apple Silicon build passes its automatic tests but hasn't been tried with glasses yet.

Setting it up

  1. Pair the glasses with your computer over Bluetooth.
  2. Download the build for your system from the releases page and run the installer.
  3. Run the one-time setup: you log in to Meta inside the setup window, and it finishes by itself.
  4. Add the glasses source to a scene in OBS.

The README has the exact steps for each system.

The one-time setup window

Good to know

  • It's a beta, tested with one pair of glasses on one Windows PC, one Linux laptop and one Intel Mac. The certification matrix lists what's been checked on each.
  • Setup makes your computer the glasses' owner, which disconnects them from the Meta AI phone app until you add them there again.
  • Battery: streaming video uses about 3–5% a minute, so plan on roughly 20–30 minutes from a full charge.
  • Internet: while connected, the Wi-Fi adapter is on the glasses' network, so stream over Ethernet.
  • Testers wanted. It's been tested on Gen 2 glasses so far. If you have another pair, the testers issue is the place to help.

Get it

Free and open source (AGPL-3.0). Not affiliated with Meta, Ray-Ban or OBS.

👉 https://github.com/RandyNorthrup/meta-g-link-direct

If it's useful to you, a ⭐ on the repo helps other streamers find it.

Meta G Link Direct is built with help from Claude Code.