GlassMate revives Google Glass as a hands-free heads-up display for a whole suite of phone apps. Say a phrase, the right app spins up and streams its HUD to the glasses — then drive it by voice while it runs. Radio, live TV, YouTube, Spotify, trains, weather, the web and more.
GlassMate is a phone companion plus a small on-glass runtime that, together, turn Google Glass into a generic, voice-driven display. Each app keeps its real work on the phone — the glasses become a pure heads-up I/O surface. Apps are installed and updated over the air; new ones drop in without touching the glasses.
Runs on your phone. Hosts the command registry every app advertises, dispatches voice triggers to the right app, mirrors notifications, and provides shared platform services.
GlassMate + MirageReceiver on the glasses listen for voice, render the streamed HUD, and recognise in-cast commands on-device — no per-app glass software needed.
Ten phone apps — and counting — each advertising how it can be summoned and what it understands while casting. Install just the ones you want from the companion's Apps tab.
Every interaction is either summoning an app from the glass launcher, or talking to an app that's already casting. They use different paths.
You speak a phrase on the glasses. The launcher matches it against the companion's command registry, finds the owning app and fires it. The app brings up its cast and streams a HUD. One-shot per cast.
While a cast is live, the glasses run on-device speech recognition for the small vocabulary that app registered. Matches are delivered straight to the app — no cloud round-trip. Touchpad gestures work too.
search on youtube (jazz cats) or find a train to (brussels). Apps that take one are marked below.
close session — it ends the cast exactly like a swipe-down on the glass touchpad. A tap usually means play/pause or “read this”; swipe forward/back navigates.
The same companion and app suite drive either headset. The companion detects which one you have and adapts the install and UI automatically.
The original Google Glass (model “Glass 1”, Android 4.x / GDK). Voice triggers are collected through the system recognizer; its OEM launcher stays in place.
Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 (Android 8.1). Adds a generic on-glass launcher, runtime permission flows and a wake gesture; the richer of the two targets.
The companion ships a first-run wizard that does the whole setup over a single USB-C cable, then hands off to over-the-air installs.
Plug the glasses into the phone and enable USB debugging. The companion talks ADB directly over the cable — no desktop needed.
The wizard reads the glasses' address and creates the bond for you. One confirmation tap and the secure backbone between phone and glasses is live.
GlassMate, the launcher and MirageReceiver are pushed onto the glasses over the warm USB link.
Open Settings → Apps in the companion and install or update any phone app over the air. Each tile links straight to its entry on this page.
The companion also provides shared services that any glass session can use — no extra install.
Free-form questions answered by Gemini and spoken back — on the glass speaker, or your earbuds when they're connected.
A continuous Gemini Live conversation with low-latency audio, streamed to the glasses.
Turn-by-turn directions rendered on the HUD while you keep your eyes up.
Speak, and hear or read the translation — language pairs picked in the setup wizard.
Look up a contact or reach a favourite by voice.
Your phone's notifications mirrored to the glasses, filterable per app.
Capture a photo through the glass camera straight to the phone.
Push Wi-Fi credentials to the glasses from the companion so casting can promote to fast TCP.
Each entry shows what the app does, how to summon it from the glasses, and the in-cast voice commands it understands while running.
Streams Belgian radio from your phone. The glass HUD shows live album art and now-playing info as the stream runs; control playback by voice or a tap on the touchpad.
Live VRT television and program search. Cast a live channel to the HUD, or look up a program by title; flip channels and pause from the glasses.
YouTube on your glasses. Speak a query, it queues the results and casts the video to the HUD; skip, go back and pause hands-free.
Spotify search and playback with a now-playing HUD and synced lyrics. Search and play tracks, albums or artists, play your Liked Songs, or connect to follow whatever's already playing.
Your Bluesky timeline, cast to the HUD. Swipe through posts and feeds, and have posts and linked articles read aloud on the glasses.
Belgian rail planner. Speak a destination and it finds the next train from the stop nearest you, with the connection card on the glasses.
Your local weather on the HUD — a swipeable multi-day forecast and an animated precipitation radar for the past hour and the next two.
Identifies the music around you. Records a few seconds from the phone mic, matches it with Shazam, and pushes the artist, title and cover art to the HUD.
Hands-free notes. Dictate something to remember and it's saved on the phone; bring up your note history on the HUD to review, replay by text-to-speech, or delete.
A full web browser on your phone that mirrors the active tab — video included (HBO, Prime, Apple TV) — to the glass HUD, or queues articles to be read aloud.
No voice trigger — open Mirage on the phone and toggle the cast from the address bar.