diff --git a/android/app/build.gradle b/android/app/build.gradle
index 018abb9..b82a982 100644
--- a/android/app/build.gradle
+++ b/android/app/build.gradle
@@ -67,6 +67,18 @@ android {
             versionCode flutterVersionCode.toInteger() + 10000
             versionNameSuffix "-wear"
         }
+        xr {
+            dimension "device"
+            // Jetpack XR SDK / AI-glasses devices are Android 14+; pinning
+            // to 34 keeps the eventual androidx.xr:* artefacts resolvable.
+            // Refine once the SDK's minSdk is published.
+            minSdk 34
+            // Separate versionCode band so Play accepts phone, wear and xr
+            // AABs for the same applicationId in one release.
+            // Phone = base, wear = +10000, xr = +20000.
+            versionCode flutterVersionCode.toInteger() + 20000
+            versionNameSuffix "-xr"
+        }
     }
 
     signingConfigs {
@@ -110,6 +122,19 @@ dependencies {
     phoneImplementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-functions'
     phoneImplementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-firestore'
     phoneImplementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:21.3.0'
+    // Android XR / AI-glasses surface — Kotlin + Compose Glimmer. Scoped to
+    // the xr flavour so the phone/wear AABs do not link these libraries.
+    // Uncomment and pin versions when the first XR activity lands; the SDK
+    // is still alpha and exact coordinates have not been published yet.
+    // xrImplementation 'androidx.xr.compose:compose:1.0.0-alpha01'
+    // xrImplementation 'androidx.xr.scenecore:scenecore:1.0.0-alpha01'
+    // xrImplementation 'androidx.xr.arcore:arcore:1.0.0-alpha01'
+    // xrImplementation 'org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-coroutines-android:1.8.1'
+    // xrImplementation platform('com.google.firebase:firebase-bom:33.7.0')
+    // xrImplementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-auth'
+    // xrImplementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-functions'
+    // xrImplementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-firestore'
+    // xrImplementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:21.3.0'
     testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.13.2'
     androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test:runner:1.4.0'
     androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.4.0'
diff --git a/android/app/src/xr/AndroidManifest.xml b/android/app/src/xr/AndroidManifest.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8d28d88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/android/app/src/xr/AndroidManifest.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
+
+    <!-- Postbox Game on Android XR AI-glasses. This source set is a
+         scaffold only; no activities are registered yet. A follow-up PR
+         will add the Compose Glimmer HUD activity, the Firestore-backed
+         StatsRepository (mirroring src/phone/.../car/), and the voice
+         controller. -->
+    <uses-feature
+        android:name="android.software.xr.immersive"
+        android:required="true" />
+</manifest>
diff --git a/docs/smart_glasses_integration.md b/docs/smart_glasses_integration.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..72efcd1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/smart_glasses_integration.md
@@ -0,0 +1,187 @@
+# Smart-glasses (Android XR) integration — feasibility & design
+
+> **Status: exploration.** Nothing in this document ships behaviour. The
+> companion changes in this PR (the `xr` product flavour and an empty
+> `android/app/src/xr/AndroidManifest.xml`) reserve the build scaffolding
+> so a follow-up PR can drop in the first real activity without reshaping
+> Gradle first.
+
+## Goal
+
+Postbox Game is a "look around the real world, spot postboxes, claim
+them" game. Smart glasses are a near-perfect form factor for the loop:
+the player is already walking, already looking, and the **fuzzy
+compass** (the deliberately-imprecise direction hint described in
+`CLAUDE.md`) maps naturally onto a translucent HUD ring.
+
+The smart-glasses experience we want to explore:
+
+- Walk down a street wearing the glasses.
+- A faint compass ring overlay shows red sectors where unclaimed
+  postboxes lie and grey sectors for already-claimed ones — **no pins,
+  no distances**, same fuzziness guarantee as the phone app.
+- Postman James whispers a non-sequitur in the player's ear when the
+  player glances toward a sector: "Something Victorian-ish over that
+  way, I reckon."
+- Saying "claim" while standing near a postbox runs the same
+  `startScoring` flow as the phone — quiz prompt is read aloud,
+  response captured by ASR.
+- Standard stats ("what's my streak?", "who's leading today?") are
+  voice-answered against the same Firestore collections the phone and
+  Wear OS clients read.
+
+## SDK summary
+
+Reference: <https://developer.android.com/develop/xr/jetpack-xr-sdk/ai-glasses/build>
+
+The Jetpack XR AI-glasses SDK is **Kotlin + Jetpack Compose Glimmer
+only**. There is no Flutter engine on the glasses surface, so this
+cannot be a Dart entrypoint like `lib/main_wear.dart`.
+
+Relevant artefact families (exact coordinates not yet pinned by Google
+— deps are commented out in `android/app/build.gradle` until the SDK
+leaves alpha):
+
+| Family | Purpose |
+| --- | --- |
+| `androidx.xr.compose` | Spatial UI with Compose Glimmer (HUD cards, chips, lists) |
+| `androidx.xr.scenecore` | 3D entities, spatial audio cues |
+| `androidx.xr.arcore` | Device pose (where the user is looking), depth, hand tracking |
+
+What the XR SDK does **not** provide and we still need from stock
+Android:
+
+- `android.location.LocationManager` / `FusedLocationProviderClient` for
+  the user's GPS fix.
+- `android.hardware.SensorManager` (magnetometer + accelerometer) for
+  the compass heading that drives the fuzzy-compass sectors. ARCore
+  device pose gives head orientation in the world frame, but we still
+  need true north.
+- System TTS (`android.speech.tts.TextToSpeech`) for Postman James
+  lines.
+- On-device ASR (`android.speech.SpeechRecognizer`) for "claim", "what's
+  nearby", "who's leading".
+
+## Architecture
+
+Mirror the existing **Android Auto** integration, which is the closest
+pattern in this repo: a separate native-Kotlin surface that talks to
+Firebase directly without ever loading the Flutter engine.
+
+Reference files (do not modify these in this PR; they are the proven
+template the XR surface will copy):
+
+- `android/app/src/phone/kotlin/com/code418/postbox_game/car/PostboxCarAppService.kt`
+- `android/app/src/phone/kotlin/com/code418/postbox_game/car/HomeCarScreen.kt`
+- `android/app/src/phone/kotlin/com/code418/postbox_game/car/LeaderboardCarScreen.kt`
+- `android/app/src/phone/kotlin/com/code418/postbox_game/car/StatsRepository.kt`
+- `android/app/src/phone/kotlin/com/code418/postbox_game/car/ClaimAction.kt`
+
+Proposed `android/app/src/xr/kotlin/com/code418/postbox_game/xr/`
+layout (no files yet — follow-up PR):
+
+| File | Responsibility | Lifted from |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| `PostboxXrActivity.kt` | Compose Glimmer entry. Hosts the HUD scaffold and routes voice intents. | New |
+| `FuzzyCompassHud.kt` | Compose Glimmer port of `lib/fuzzy_compass.dart` (`to8Sectors`, `vagueLabel`, sector painter). Draws claimed sectors grey and unclaimed sectors red around a North marker. | `lib/fuzzy_compass.dart` |
+| `StatsRepository.kt` | One-shot reads of `users/{uid}` and `leaderboards/daily`. Mirrors the staleness check (discard if `periodKey` ≠ London-today). | `.../car/StatsRepository.kt` |
+| `XrClaimAction.kt` | Auth check → fresh GPS fix → call `startScoring` callable → map result to `Claimed` / `Empty` / `AlreadyClaimedToday` / `TooFast` / `NotSignedIn` / `Error`. | `.../car/ClaimAction.kt` (almost verbatim) |
+| `NearbyController.kt` | Calls the `nearbyPostboxes` callable, feeds `claimedCompassCounts` / `unclaimedCompassCounts` into the HUD. | New, but the callable contract is documented in `functions/src/index.ts` |
+| `VoiceController.kt` | TTS + ASR wrapper. Maps "claim" / "what's nearby" / "who's leading" / "my streak" to actions. Reads Postman James lines from a Kotlin port of `lib/james_messages.dart`. | New |
+
+## Server-side reuse
+
+**No backend changes.** Every server-side need is already satisfied by
+the existing callables documented in `CLAUDE.md` and exported from
+`functions/src/index.ts`:
+
+- `nearbyPostboxes` — returns `claimedCompassCounts` and
+  `unclaimedCompassCounts` (the exact shape the fuzzy compass HUD
+  needs).
+- `startScoring` — handles the claim, quiz, streak update and
+  leaderboard write.
+- `userClaimHistory` — stats for the voice-answered "how am I doing?"
+  query.
+
+This means:
+
+- No new Cloud Functions.
+- No Firestore schema changes.
+- No `firestore.rules` / `storage.rules` changes.
+- No `pubspec.yaml` changes (Flutter side is untouched).
+
+The fuzzy-compass contract from `CLAUDE.md` ("Avoid showing exact
+bearings or distances that would allow pinpointing") still holds on
+glasses — the HUD must only ever show 8-wind sectors, never a heading
+needle pointing at a specific box.
+
+## UX constraints
+
+The glasses form factor reshapes UX in ways worth recording up front:
+
+- **Voice-first.** Tap and pinch gestures exist but assume the player
+  is mid-walk with hands occupied (umbrella, dog lead, phone-camera
+  for photo evidence). Default every action to voice.
+- **No full-screen UIs.** Compose Glimmer HUD chips and cards only.
+  Anything that occludes the player's view of an oncoming bus is a
+  bug.
+- **Battery-conscious.** Don't poll ARCore device pose continuously —
+  only during an explicit "look around" gesture or voice command.
+- **Privacy.** The glasses camera is **not** used for postbox claim
+  evidence in this design (UK street photography legality + bystander
+  privacy). The phone app remains authoritative for the
+  problem-reporting photo flow described in `CLAUDE.md`.
+- **Auth.** Most AI-glasses pair with a phone and inherit its Google
+  session — we expect the existing Firebase Auth flow to "just work",
+  but it's an open question (see below).
+
+## Risks and open questions
+
+- **SDK maturity.** Jetpack XR is alpha at time of writing. Artefact
+  coordinates and minSdk are not pinned in the public docs; the
+  `xrImplementation` block in `android/app/build.gradle` is commented
+  out until that settles.
+- **GPS accuracy on glasses.** The phone uses a 30 m claim radius. If
+  the glasses fix is noisier (no GNSS antenna, paired-phone tether),
+  we may need to relax `metresBounds` for XR-originated calls — but
+  doing so would weaken the travel-speed anti-spoof check in
+  `startScoring`. Worth measuring before we decide.
+- **Shared-headset accounts.** Unclear whether a single pair of
+  glasses can switch between Google accounts mid-walk. If not, family
+  / shared-device use cases get awkward.
+- **OSM data freshness on glasses.** The fuzzy-compass HUD relies on
+  Firestore data ingested from OpenStreetMap. No change to that
+  pipeline — but if a player is in an area with sparse OSM coverage,
+  the HUD will look empty in a way that is harder to explain than on
+  the phone (no list view to fall back to).
+- **Postman James voice.** Lines in `lib/james_messages.dart` were
+  written for the screen, not the ear. Some will need rewording for
+  TTS pacing.
+
+## Phased rollout
+
+| Phase | Scope | Branch shape |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| 1 (this PR) | `xr` product flavour, empty `src/xr/` manifest, this doc. | `claude/smart-glasses-integration-jf0kW` |
+| 2 | Read-only HUD prototype: `PostboxXrActivity` + `StatsRepository` showing today's points / streak / rank. Mirrors the Android Auto stat panel. | follow-up |
+| 3 | Voice-driven claim. `XrClaimAction` + `VoiceController` wired to `startScoring`. | follow-up |
+| 4 | Live fuzzy-compass overlay. `NearbyController` + `FuzzyCompassHud`, sensor-fusion heading. | follow-up |
+| 5 | Public alpha behind a Firebase Remote Config flag, opt-in via the existing settings screen. | follow-up |
+
+Each phase is small enough to ship behind feature-flag and back out if
+the SDK shifts under us.
+
+## What this PR actually changes
+
+Just the build harness and this document. Specifically:
+
+- `android/app/build.gradle` — add `xr` product flavour and a
+  commented `xrImplementation` dependency block.
+- `android/app/src/xr/AndroidManifest.xml` — new, manifest-only
+  source set declaring `android.software.xr.immersive`. No activities,
+  no services.
+- `docs/smart_glasses_integration.md` — this file.
+
+Nothing under `lib/`, `functions/`, `firestore.rules`,
+`storage.rules`, `pubspec.yaml`, `firebase.json`, the `wear` source
+set, or the `phone` source set is touched.