01 The plan

Roadmap

GID is built foundations-first. The phases below are ordered by what must be true before the next step, not by a calendar. We would rather be right than early on the decisions that cannot be undone.

02 Phases

1. 00

   Concept

   Complete

   The thesis, scope, and HID lineage established. Debuted publicly at AWE XR 2026.

2. 01

   Foundations

   In progress

   The hard, irreversible decisions come first: how GID frames input, versions it safely, extends without breaking, and gets it to the right app. Their shape is largely settled; the remaining work is the encoding, before anything freezes as normative.

3. 02

   Draft specification

   Up next

   Normative text for the core: descriptors, the envelope, addressing, and the mandatory-to-implement baseline, with a BLE GATT binding.

4. 03

   Reference controller

   Planned

   PeKe Labs ships the first GID controller and companion relay as a working proof that the model holds in hardware - not a slide, a device.

5. 04

   GID 1.0

   Planned

   A stable core, a conformance definition, and an open process for extensions. Availability announced here when the foundations are locked.

03 Strategy

Prove it in hardware

A standard nobody builds is a document. GID's strategy is to ship the first device itself.

PeKe Labs is building a reference glasses controller - gesture input, buttons, and positional control - paired with a companion relay app that bridges the controller to the app on your glasses. It is the first real implementation of GID, and its job is to prove the model holds where it matters: on actual hardware, over the BLE GATT channel that glasses use today, against real glasses in hand.

The reference controller is how GID earns the right to be a standard rather than a proposal. If the model cannot drive a real device cleanly, the specification is wrong and we would rather find out on our own hardware first.