The US AI Glasses Impact Grants support innovators using AI glasses to empower communities, boost economic growth, and expand opportunities across the U.S. Meta is committed to building and investing in this ecosystem, and these grants are designed to empower and support the community.
There are two types of grants:
1. Accelerator Grants: For U.S. organizations already leveraging AI Glasses to scale their impact in areas including (but not limited to) economic success, education, health, community, accessibility, and support for veterans. Please apply below.
2. Catalyst Grants: For U.S. based developers and organizations proposing new, high-impact integrations using Meta’s Wearables Developer Access Toolkit, with a focus on building integrations that deliver social or economic value. Please read our FAQs before applying (Available in the US only).
You must create a Submittable account to apply. If you have questions about Submittable, check out the Submitter Resource Center or contact Submittable Customer Support.
Accelerator Grants: For organizations already leveraging AI Glasses to scale their impact in areas including (but not limited to) economic success, education, health, community, accessibility, and support for veterans.
We’re looking for a demonstration and evidence of your active use of AI glasses to drive societal or economic impact, and a clear plan for how additional funding and AI glasses will help scale your impact.
We will award 15 Accelerator grants of $25,000 and 10 of $50,000 to selected organizations. Please note that we reserve the right to award a different amount than you have applied for.
The application process will close on March 9, 2026.
For developers and organizations proposing new, high-impact integrations using Meta’s Wearable Developer Access Toolkit (DAT), with a focus on building integrations that deliver social or economic value.
What we’re looking for:
- Developers or organizations with strong technical skills
- A clear idea for a consumer integration that will drive social and/ or economic value at scale, built using Meta’s DAT.
Grant Details:
We will award 5 monetary grants to selected organizations ranging up to $200,000 alongside support from Meta to build your application.
Alongside our eligibility criteria, we’re looking for a developer or organization that can evidence:
- An existing mobile app with an established consumer audience (evidencing a pathway to scale)
- Domain expertise in its field, preferably a country leading authority on the problem it is looking to solve. Please note that we welcome partnership applications, for instance a developer with technical expertise partnered with a nonprofit with domain expertise.
- A developer team with the technical skills needed to build a wearables integration using Meta’s Developer Access Toolkit. Please ensure you’ve reviewed the documentation here.
The winning integrations will showcase:
- Social and economic value: Solves a real social or economic value problem with a plausible path to adoption or pilot.
- Originality and innovation: A clear “why wearables” benefit that unlocks hands‑free, in‑the‑moment value.
- Critical timing: how development of this integration will push forward the organization or cause applying.
- User Experience and trust: demonstrates at application stage that privacy, data controls and user experience have been considered as part of design.
- Adheres to the Meta Wearables Developer Acceptable Use Policy.
What support will Meta offer Catalyst Grant winners alongside the monetary award?
- Catalyst Grant winners will receive dedicated developer relations support from Meta’s content and partner engineering team.
- Catalyst Grant winners will have a bi-weekly check-in calls with Meta’s team to ask questions, receive guidance around how they are designing their integrations, and troubleshoot any issues.
- They will receive additional support from a dedicated group space for each partner where they can send asynchronous questions to Meta’s team for support.
Please read the FAQs ahead of applying.