Welcome, here's what DreamLayer is and how to get involved

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Hey, welcome. Quick orientation post since this is new.

DreamLayer is software for Brilliant Labs’ Halo smart glasses. The core idea is a memory layer, not an assistant: your glasses see what you see, and it quietly keeps what matters (objects, people you were introduced to, promises you made, where you left things) and hands it back as a glance-able card when it’s useful. Everything groups into six lenses: Memory, People, Truth, World, Life, Together. There’s a small look-and-ask piece in there (Juno) but it’s one part of one lens, not the whole product.

Two things worth knowing up front:

It’s a pre-hardware build, and we say that plainly. Every lens’s logic is real, tested code, you can run the actual renderer and orchestrator right now with zero install at dreamlayer.app/simulator.html, but camera, mic, on-device vision, and the BLE/mesh transport are wired points, not live silicon yet. Anything needing a second wearer or a live display runs demo data until that’s attached.

It’s Apache-2.0, whole repo, no split between a free core and a paid version. The name and mark are reserved (see NOTICE), the code is not.

Where things go:
• Found a bug or something’s broken: open an Issue.
• Have an idea, or want to talk through a design before building it: post it here, in Ideas.
• Built something, a lens, an integration, anything: post it in Show and tell, we want to see it.
• Stuck on setup or usage: Q&A.
• Everything else: General.

If you want to build something, the fastest path in is examples/hello-lens, a working example under 30 lines that CI runs so it can’t rot, about 10 minutes start to finish. docs/SDK.md has the full CLI (dreamlayer plugins new/validate/preview/pack). No code at all works too, there’s a browser Lens Builder at dreamlayer.app/lens-builder.html.

Contributions go through the DCO (git commit -s), not a CLA. CONTRIBUTING.md has the ground rules, there’s usually a handful of good-first-issues open if you want somewhere to start.

Ask anything. Glad you’re here.