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. It starts on the Brain tab — the home screen for your whole setup. A short welcome walks you through what the product does and ends at pairing.
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, the Oracle — works right now.
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, install DreamLayer's Brain and open its control panel in a browser. The panel walks you through everything visually:
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, press Pair a phone. 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.
| Switch | Plainly | Starts as |
|---|---|---|
| Mac | "Use my Mac's bigger brain and my files" | Off — phone is the brain |
| Cloud | "For a rare hard question, ask the internet AI" | On — but easy to turn off, and it never gets your personal stuff |
| Incognito | "For the next stretch: remember nothing, and no cloud, period" | Off |
That is the entire mental model. The privacy chapter covers what each one really means for your data.