Independent Spatial Developer Meta Ray-Ban Display
Take the web outside — and bend it through time.
Amy Erz designs and builds bespoke spatial web experiences for Meta Ray-Ban
Display — a glasses-first web that lives out in the world, not on a screen.
— On the work
I make webapps that take you outside — onto the events, the city, the
street — and turn a single location into something you move through in time: what it was, what’s happening now, and what comes next.
Past, present, future — Outside, in time — Worn lightly — A new way to see a place — Past, present, future — Outside, in time — Worn lightly — A new way to see a place —
Self-initiated experiments — built to find out what a glasses-first web can really
do.
Self-initiated · 01—04 01 Apple 50
Cupertino · WWDC A premium companion for WWDC — Apple’s 50th. The week becomes an event you move through: live keynote predictions stacked against the rumor mill and scored to the second the keynote begins, plus a patch hunt across Apple’s historic sites and the California places macOS is named for.
WWDC · Keynote · Apple at 50
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02 Scenein
San Francisco · On Location Stand where the movies were shot. Scenein surfaces hand-curated clips of films and shows filmed around San Francisco, pinned to the exact spot — with TMDB details for every title.
Film · Geo · TMDB
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03 BTS Stanford
Stanford Stadium · Live A heads-up companion for a BTS concert at Stanford. Attendees navigate the campus and stadium and ride the night with a spatial HUD built for the show.
Concert · HUD · Wayfinding
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04 Silicon Valley History
The Valley · Origins The first Ray-Ban concept — born from a fascination with how Silicon Valley got built. A walking history of the garages, labs and milestones that made the Valley.
Heritage · Trail · First Concept
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— The throughline
A new way to experience a place — its past, its present, and what comes next.
Every project takes you outside and treats one location as something you can move
through in time. Stand somewhere real and see what it was, what’s happening now,
and where it’s headed — a new way to experience a place.
Past What was here
Scenein replays the films shot on these streets; Silicon Valley History traces how the Valley got built.
Present What’s here now
BTS Stanford rides a live concert in real time — navigate the campus and the night exactly as it happens.
Future What comes next
What isn't built yet — the next place, the next platform, the next way to wear time. The work always leaves room for it.
Apple 50 Cupertino · Past · Present
Scenein San Francisco · Past
BTS Stanford Stanford · Present
Silicon Valley History The Valley · Past
— Approach
Two materials, always: location and time.
01 In situ
Experiences that only exist where they are meant to be lived — tied to a street, a building, a step.
02 Time as material
The past, rendered in place; the present moment, made touchable. History you can walk through.
03 Worn lightly
Built for a glance, not a stare. Glasses-first, web-native, and gone the moment you look away.
— What I build - Bespoke spatial webapps
- Meta Ray-Ban Display builds
- Location & heritage experiences
- Time-based interaction
- Collaborations, big or small
— Background Years on maps and the web — UCLA Geography, cartography for Rick Steves, GIS at Clear Channel Outdoor, web at The Washington Post — now building spatial.
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