Setting up

Everything pairs with one code. The whole setup is: install the phone app, optionally set up the Mac, scan one QR code, put the glasses on.

1. The phone app

Install the DreamLayer app and open it. A short welcome walks you through what the product does and ends at pairing. After that, the app opens on the Now tab; the Brain tab — the home for your whole setup — is one tap away.

If you are skipping the Mac for now, you are already done: the phone is the brain, and the glasses pair from this same screen. Everything core — memory, people, promises, Juno — works right now.

No hardware at all yet? Tap "Explore with sample data" at the end of the welcome. The whole app fills with clearly-labeled sample data — a banner stays on screen the whole time so you can never mistake it for your own life — and one tap exits.

2. The Mac (optional, recommended)

Adding an always-on Mac upgrades the brain: it can index folders you choose (notes, documents, whatever you point it at), read your Messages and Mail if you allow it, and answer questions from your own stuff — "what's the rent on the lease?" gets answered from the actual lease file, on your own machine.

On the Mac, download the DreamLayer app (a normal Mac download — drag it to Applications, double-click) from the site's Download for Mac button. It lives quietly in your menu bar and opens its control panel in its own window:

Three things worth doing on day one:

• Choose folders. Point it at the folders you want it to know — it reads them on your Mac and never uploads them anywhere.
• Pick a model. Out of the box it uses simple keyword search (works instantly, no downloads). One click upgrades it to a local AI model that writes proper answers — still entirely on your Mac.
• Sync your calendar, contacts, and reminders if you want the morning brief and people-memory to know about them.

3. Pair everything with one code

In the Mac panel's Connections view, press Pair a phone and a QR code appears:

In the phone app: Brain tab, Pair a device, scan. That single code connects your phone to your Mac and registers your glasses — one scan, done. No accounts, no sign-ins; the code itself is the handshake, and it only works for devices on your side of it.

4. Put the glasses on

The display wakes with a ring of light — that ring is your day. From here, the day-with guide shows what living with it is like, and Talking to it covers what you can say.

The three switches

One idea worth learning at setup time: DreamLayer has no complicated modes, just three independent switches, all on the Brain tab.

That is the entire mental model. The privacy chapter covers what each one really means for your data.