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MentraOS allows multiple apps to run at the same time and access context at the same time by running apps in the cloud. This is enabled by relay servers. You can use Mentra's relay…

Translation, subtitles, turn by turn directions - use them today! Ad blocking - we'll need a research team and 5 years https://xkcd.com/1425/

You're right, it doesn't. Because the glasses that you can actually wear today are not MR/AR. But as the tech progresses, so will MentraOS to support spatial experiences.

Fwiw we've been building open source smart glasses tech for 7 years, without a dime of funding until ~9 months ago, you can see it all on GitHub. We actually want this next platfor…

That sounds nice but there's problems in reality. How do the glasses serve as a "dumb camera to your phone"? What protocol do they use to do this? It doesn't exist. It's something …

Most people pursuing this include display + microphone. The microphone lets you pick up voice, which is critical. Captions, translation, note-taking, etc. all benefit from this. Ev…

I lived in the woods during my undergrad too: https://medium.com/@caydenpierce4/the-homeless-hippie-cyborg... This was in between two stints living and working in a mobile RV hacke…

The 3 seconds of latency is writing a bitmap image from the phone to the smart glasses over BLE. It's very fast to send text, but slow to send bitmaps. For text, everything is fast…

Mentra Live is indeed a camera + speakers + microphone pair of lightweight smart glasses - that you can build for. Mentra Live runs AugmentOS, so you can control all the I/O (camer…

100% agree. I've been building smart glasses for over 7 years. First 6 years were in academia because the tech wasn't ready yet, because they were too heavy and battery didn't last…

We've been building smart glasses tech for a long time. 6 years ago, we realized it was super hard to make apps for smart glasses due to lack of software ecosystem. Since then, we'…

We're a team trying to learn languages faster. We bring proven language learning tools into real world second language conversations. These smart glasses give you live rare word tr…

Proactive AI is the killer app for Smart Glasses. Could smart glasses make us more intelligent and creative while improving our memory in conversations? Yep, that's exactly what we…

It's a 2 layer PCB. I put all the components on one side for simpler PCBA. The other side of the board is pretty boring - just a ground plane and a couple traces. Like others said,…

Yeah totally agree, circuit generators are powerful. There's a lot of cases where you decide your higher level constraints (e.g. I want a filter of this architecture) and the rest …

Thanks for the feedback. There's definitely a lot more that goes into a serious design. I purposefully chose a simpler design to experiment with automating the easy but repetitive …

Great idea. Yeah, that could be done. First pass would be to bundle the LEDs based on their type - just change the ordering from an ordering based on physical position to an orderi…

When I started designing PCBs a few years ago (after some years of electronics prototyping and software engineering) I was somewhat shocked by the manual, repetitive tasks I kept d…