Raunaq Naidu

Senior Staff Software Engineer at Meta Reality Labs
Uber TL for Voice AI on Wearables · ex-NVIDIA · Founder and angel investor

2025–now

I am the Uber TL for Voice AI on Wearables in Meta Reality Labs, leading technical direction across the area. I also built a production agent for software quality that investigates wearable-device crashes across Java, Android native, and embedded firmware.

2023–2024

I built and managed a ten-person systems performance team working on MCU monitoring, real-time embedded profiling, and performance infrastructure for AI wearables. I also established a 40-person systems engineering team for Meta in India.

2018–2023

I led display and graphics work at Meta spanning operating systems, local dimming, adaptive refresh rate, display latency, chromatic-aberration correction, and power management. The work shipped in Quest 2, Quest Pro, Quest 3, and Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses.

2016–2018

At Meta 2, the AR headset startup, I built runtime, reprojection, camera-performance, and SDK systems. Depth-camera latency was reduced by 80%.

2014–2016

At NVIDIA, I worked on VR Direct Mode, Mosaic, and DisplayPort 1.4 HDR drivers.

2012–2014

M.S. in Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University (GPA 4.0), following a B.Tech in Electronics Engineering at VJTI, Mumbai University.

products shipped

Meta Ray-Ban Display: display glasses and wearable systems
Meta Neural Band: technical lead
Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2): wearable systems
Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 1): wearable display software and systems
Meta Quest 3: display and graphics software
Meta Quest Pro: display, local dimming, latency, and frame-rate systems
Oculus Quest 2: operating system, display stack, and power management
Meta 2 AR headset and runtime: runtime, reprojection, camera performance, and SDK integrations
NVIDIA VRWorks / Direct Mode: low-latency direct-to-display rendering
NVIDIA Mosaic: high-resolution tiled-display drivers
NVIDIA DisplayPort 1.4 HDR: GPU display drivers for HDR output

Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses beside the Meta Neural Band — Meta Ray-Ban Display + Neural Band

A musician wearing Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 smart glasses — Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2)

A person wearing Ray-Ban Meta Gen 1 smart glasses — Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 1)

A person using the Orion augmented-reality glasses prototype — Orion prototype

public prototype

Orion is Meta’s public augmented-reality glasses prototype. It is listed separately because it was demonstrated publicly rather than shipped as a consumer product.

startups

HTML Docs: a publishing and collaboration product for AI-generated HTML, with open-source agent tooling. I founded and built it.
Skybright: a managed data-integration and ETL service. I founded it and continue to operate it.

independent projects

research and patents

R. Naidu. “Display brightness and refresh rate throttling and multi-view image fusion.” US20230360566A1, 2023.
R. Naidu et al. “Generative artificial intelligence image generation for watch face customization.” EP4733888A1, 2026.

More on Google Scholar. I have also spoken about AI wearables, AR/VR, and generative AI (speaker profile).