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Augmenting humanity with smart glasses. CEO @MentraGlass building the smart glasses OS. 🇨🇦😎

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Making a camera was way harder than I thought. Here's what I learned: If you want smart phone level camera, you can't just buy a smartphone camera component That's because cameras talk to a special chip (ISP) that does all kinds of magic There's special image software too, and you can't do it yourself, so it's gonna cost you $100-250k for that software that does tuning, HDR, MFNR, etc. Takes months to implement properly Then it's even worse if you want to livestream. Since you can't do the processing after the fact, you've gotta make all that special software run realtime on a resource constrained processor You also gotta realize our hands and heads aren't stable at all. The video is shaky until you do electronic image stabilization (EIS) If you don't do every single one of these right, then you'll have potato-quality video After all this work, we've now got something really good, and I'm amped to ship Mentra Live smart glasses because it's a smart phone quality camera that sees what you see, live streams anywhere, and has an open-source SDK you can build apps with.

Making a camera was way harder than I thought. Here's what I learned: If you want smart phone level camera, you can't just buy a smartphone camera component That's because cameras talk to a special chip (ISP) that does all kinds of magic There's special image software too, and you can't do it yourself, so it's gonna cost you $100-250k for that software that does tuning, HDR, MFNR, etc. Takes months to implement properly Then it's even worse if you want to livestream. Since you can't do the processing after the fact, you've gotta make all that special software run realtime on a resource constrained processor You also gotta realize our hands and heads aren't stable at all. The video is shaky until you do electronic image stabilization (EIS) If you don't do every single one of these right, then you'll have potato-quality video After all this work, we've now got something really good, and I'm amped to ship Mentra Live smart glasses because it's a smart phone quality camera that sees what you see, live streams anywhere, and has an open-source SDK you can build apps with.

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Making smart glasses frames was way harder than I thought. Here's what I learned: Materials matter. You can't use normal plastic, because it has to be light and safe to touch your face So we chose TR90 plastic that's made for eyewear Fake gray-market TR90 plastic is common in China. You gotta go to the source and make sure your TR90 is legit Glue is so important. If you put too much glue it will give issues, and add weight. Too little glue, won't stick. That's why it's better for a robot to do it (VIDEO) If the glue doesn't match the material perfectly, then it won't stick. So we tried like 4 glues to get the best one for our smart glasses You design the frame in 3D and then make a tool. A tool is just a metal mold that is shaped like the glasses. You put a bunch of melted plastic (TR90) in the tool, let it cool, and out pops the glasses frame. Do that 10,000 times Tooling leaves seams in the frame, so we figured out where to put the seam so it doesn't cut into your ear when you wear it Obviously this all must be super lightweight because the electronics are heavy The camera needs a certain perspective, so the glasses frame angles the camera down to capture hands in videos Throughout the design process, you can't sacrifice style And now our Mentra Live frames are born

Making smart glasses frames was way harder than I thought. Here's what I learned: Materials matter. You can't use normal plastic, because it has to be light and safe to touch your face So we chose TR90 plastic that's made for eyewear Fake gray-market TR90 plastic is common in China. You gotta go to the source and make sure your TR90 is legit Glue is so important. If you put too much glue it will give issues, and add weight. Too little glue, won't stick. That's why it's better for a robot to do it (VIDEO) If the glue doesn't match the material perfectly, then it won't stick. So we tried like 4 glues to get the best one for our smart glasses You design the frame in 3D and then make a tool. A tool is just a metal mold that is shaped like the glasses. You put a bunch of melted plastic (TR90) in the tool, let it cool, and out pops the glasses frame. Do that 10,000 times Tooling leaves seams in the frame, so we figured out where to put the seam so it doesn't cut into your ear when you wear it Obviously this all must be super lightweight because the electronics are heavy The camera needs a certain perspective, so the glasses frame angles the camera down to capture hands in videos Throughout the design process, you can't sacrifice style And now our Mentra Live frames are born

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Business in China is different

Business in China is different

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SMART GLASSES IN TOKYO

SMART GLASSES IN TOKYO

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"You can't move the means of production, but you can move the memes of production." Shenzhen has the world's best hardware building infrastructure. But it's also rapidly brain-draining the people (memes) all over the world to go build there. And now the US is banning immigrants like me while China opens its arms. China is rapidly changing policies to make visas, travel, and business easier. At the same time, every smart immigrant to the US is shaking at the knees that they'll get banned from re-entry, denied a visa, etc. Talent is everything and nations will rise and fall based on their ability to attract the world's best. If half the US discourse nowadays is about how scared they are of China, why are they building a wall that keeps out all the cracked people? Isn't is obvious now all those cracked people will go find some other high tech, giant economy to go contribute to instead?

"You can't move the means of production, but you can move the memes of production." Shenzhen has the world's best hardware building infrastructure. But it's also rapidly brain-draining the people (memes) all over the world to go build there. And now the US is banning immigrants like me while China opens its arms. China is rapidly changing policies to make visas, travel, and business easier. At the same time, every smart immigrant to the US is shaking at the knees that they'll get banned from re-entry, denied a visa, etc. Talent is everything and nations will rise and fall based on their ability to attract the world's best. If half the US discourse nowadays is about how scared they are of China, why are they building a wall that keeps out all the cracked people? Isn't is obvious now all those cracked people will go find some other high tech, giant economy to go contribute to instead?

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OpenAI just dropped a completely new kind of model gpt-realtime-translate takes in speech audio from any language and outputs speech in your target language LLMs are great, but you need specialized models for specialized use cases We're running this on our smart glasses

OpenAI just dropped a completely new kind of model gpt-realtime-translate takes in speech audio from any language and outputs speech in your target language LLMs are great, but you need specialized models for specialized use cases We're running this on our smart glasses

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Our smart glasses now work as a USB webcam. Plug them into your laptop and your computer sees from your point of view. Use it in Google Meet, Zoom, OBS, Python, or straight to your OpenClaw. We're making smart glasses so open, you don't even need our app.

Our smart glasses now work as a USB webcam. Plug them into your laptop and your computer sees from your point of view. Use it in Google Meet, Zoom, OBS, Python, or straight to your OpenClaw. We're making smart glasses so open, you don't even need our app.

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Launching Mentra Live open-source smart glasses. Deploy smart glasses for real world work. We already shipped thousands. Now, they're generally available. Build apps that leave the screen. Let your AI step into the real world.

Launching Mentra Live open-source smart glasses. Deploy smart glasses for real world work. We already shipped thousands. Now, they're generally available. Build apps that leave the screen. Let your AI step into the real world.

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Launching full support for Even Realities G2 smart glasses in MentraOS. With Mentra, you can run multiple smart glasses apps at once. You: in a meeting in Tokyo on 82nd floor. You're running translation on your smart glasses and understanding every word. Your Notetaker is running in the background capturing ideas as they're spoken. Your proactive AI agent is listening in, hears someone ask a question, and automatically overlays the answer on your vision. That's what's Mentra unlocks. MentraOS is the open source OS for smart glasses. We give users an app store and allow developers to write one app that runs on any pair of smart glasses. It's 100% open source, private, and free. How to use: Download the Mentra app, connect your G2, and get instant access to captions, AI notetaker, Merge proactive AI, translation, and other apps. You can switch back to the Even app at anytime. If you want to unlock your Even G2, then downalod Mentra on the Google or Apple App Store.

Launching full support for Even Realities G2 smart glasses in MentraOS. With Mentra, you can run multiple smart glasses apps at once. You: in a meeting in Tokyo on 82nd floor. You're running translation on your smart glasses and understanding every word. Your Notetaker is running in the background capturing ideas as they're spoken. Your proactive AI agent is listening in, hears someone ask a question, and automatically overlays the answer on your vision. That's what's Mentra unlocks. MentraOS is the open source OS for smart glasses. We give users an app store and allow developers to write one app that runs on any pair of smart glasses. It's 100% open source, private, and free. How to use: Download the Mentra app, connect your G2, and get instant access to captions, AI notetaker, Merge proactive AI, translation, and other apps. You can switch back to the Even app at anytime. If you want to unlock your Even G2, then downalod Mentra on the Google or Apple App Store.

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We put 1000s of hours into building open-source camera glasses And now we're giving away everything we learned for free. Checkout this in-depth teardown of the Mentra Live smart glasses. As an OS company, our goal is to spread our OS. That goal encourages us to do crazy things, like build the world's best AI glasses for business and then show you how we made them... all in the name of spreading the OS. It also convinced us to make it 100% open source, so adoption is faster and easier. We're at risk of our competitors easily copypasting our code now... all in the name of spreading our OS. Now we've built the glasses for you, and we've taken the risk, and we've released an open SDK. Now your AI apps and agents can enter the real world on smart glasses. So now, what will you build?

We put 1000s of hours into building open-source camera glasses And now we're giving away everything we learned for free. Checkout this in-depth teardown of the Mentra Live smart glasses. As an OS company, our goal is to spread our OS. That goal encourages us to do crazy things, like build the world's best AI glasses for business and then show you how we made them... all in the name of spreading the OS. It also convinced us to make it 100% open source, so adoption is faster and easier. We're at risk of our competitors easily copypasting our code now... all in the name of spreading our OS. Now we've built the glasses for you, and we've taken the risk, and we've released an open SDK. Now your AI apps and agents can enter the real world on smart glasses. So now, what will you build?

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AugmentOS 1.0 has dropped. AugmentOS is the open source OS and super app for smart glasses. It enables apps and AI agents for the next 8 billion personal devices. And we're launching today, with hardware you can buy today. 1/🧵

AugmentOS 1.0 has dropped. AugmentOS is the open source OS and super app for smart glasses. It enables apps and AI agents for the next 8 billion personal devices. And we're launching today, with hardware you can buy today. 1/🧵

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See someone and know everything about them with face rec AI glasses

See someone and know everything about them with face rec AI glasses

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Introducing the Mentra Bluetooth SDK - control smart glasses directly from your Android/iOS app. Thousands of devs built smart glasses apps. But we heard one common complaint.... the cloud. So we stripped it out and gave you direct glasses control straight from your phone app.

Introducing the Mentra Bluetooth SDK - control smart glasses directly from your Android/iOS app. Thousands of devs built smart glasses apps. But we heard one common complaint.... the cloud. So we stripped it out and gave you direct glasses control straight from your phone app.

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Building the OS for the next 8 billion personal computers.

Building the OS for the next 8 billion personal computers.

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We built the open source alternative to the Meta Raybans: Last year, I dropped out of MIT This year, we raised $8 million to build open source smart glasses Now, we’re launching our first smart glasses for devs: open source, with a software development kit, and an app store. A canvas for makers to easily build the upgrades we dreamed of as kids. Tools at your fingertips to expand our minds and unlock new powers And we're just getting started. Peep the website and join the movement with MentraLabs

We built the open source alternative to the Meta Raybans: Last year, I dropped out of MIT This year, we raised $8 million to build open source smart glasses Now, we’re launching our first smart glasses for devs: open source, with a software development kit, and an app store. A canvas for makers to easily build the upgrades we dreamed of as kids. Tools at your fingertips to expand our minds and unlock new powers And we're just getting started. Peep the website and join the movement with MentraLabs

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How It's Made: Smart Glasses Edition

How It's Made: Smart Glasses Edition

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We're connecting brains to AI with high bandwidth interfaces. Our smart glasses can increase human learning rates 3X. Today we're launching Mentra Link, a smart glasses app that helps people learn languages 3X faster.

We're connecting brains to AI with high bandwidth interfaces. Our smart glasses can increase human learning rates 3X. Today we're launching Mentra Link, a smart glasses app that helps people learn languages 3X faster.

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Smart Glasses Hackathon July 12-13 At Y Combinator in SF 100 pairs of smart glasses. 100 cracked devs. 48 hours at YC. Prizes are smart glasses. Only smart glasses. 1/3 of hackers will win free smart glasses. What will you build? Sign up below.

Smart Glasses Hackathon July 12-13 At Y Combinator in SF 100 pairs of smart glasses. 100 cracked devs. 48 hours at YC. Prizes are smart glasses. Only smart glasses. 1/3 of hackers will win free smart glasses. What will you build? Sign up below.

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Streaming HD video from smart glasses camera for >1 hour is hard But if someone cracked it, they'd unlock smart glasses for streamers, manufacturing, retail, etc. We cracked it. Mentra Live with micro-charge cable can stream... Forever

Streaming HD video from smart glasses camera for >1 hour is hard But if someone cracked it, they'd unlock smart glasses for streamers, manufacturing, retail, etc. We cracked it. Mentra Live with micro-charge cable can stream... Forever

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I just called my Mom from my smart glasses. Introducing video calls on Mentra Live smart glasses. Join Google Meet, Teams, or Zoom call directly from your glasses. Imagine field workers like HVAC techs, electricians, or mechanics calling into an expert remotely. The expert can see what they see and have a live voice call with them, getting help exactly when they need it. You might have seen a demo like this before... so what's different here? It's all about wearability. Classical enterprise smart glasses are heavy, uncomfortable, and never make it past pilot pergatory. Mentra Live are super lightweight and shaped like regular glasses. Workers can wear them all day, and the battery lasts for a full shift. Also, since MentraOS is open-source, you can build your own apps, deploy on-prem, and stay fully compliant. Video calling is rolling out in general availability to Mentra Live users later this month.

I just called my Mom from my smart glasses. Introducing video calls on Mentra Live smart glasses. Join Google Meet, Teams, or Zoom call directly from your glasses. Imagine field workers like HVAC techs, electricians, or mechanics calling into an expert remotely. The expert can see what they see and have a live voice call with them, getting help exactly when they need it. You might have seen a demo like this before... so what's different here? It's all about wearability. Classical enterprise smart glasses are heavy, uncomfortable, and never make it past pilot pergatory. Mentra Live are super lightweight and shaped like regular glasses. Workers can wear them all day, and the battery lasts for a full shift. Also, since MentraOS is open-source, you can build your own apps, deploy on-prem, and stay fully compliant. Video calling is rolling out in general availability to Mentra Live users later this month.

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we made Meta Rayban glasses but with an open source sdk then 100 hackers make apps on them at YC this is the dev ecosystem Meta missed out on their walled garden will never see this kind of collaborative innovation

we made Meta Rayban glasses but with an open source sdk then 100 hackers make apps on them at YC this is the dev ecosystem Meta missed out on their walled garden will never see this kind of collaborative innovation

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AI agents on my smart glasses order me a Big Mac.

AI agents on my smart glasses order me a Big Mac.

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AI agents need context. Smart glasses give you all the context I'm streaming HD video from my glasses And they stream everywhere. X, your app, OnlyFans, etc With open-source SDK so you can build stuff like calorie counter, super memory, "Her", etc.

AI agents need context. Smart glasses give you all the context I'm streaming HD video from my glasses And they stream everywhere. X, your app, OnlyFans, etc With open-source SDK so you can build stuff like calorie counter, super memory, "Her", etc.

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Now you can know everyone's name cheat at poker track your calories automatically at the Mentra smart glasses hackathon

Now you can know everyone's name cheat at poker track your calories automatically at the Mentra smart glasses hackathon

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Smart glasses see what workers do So robots can learn to do the same work On Mentra smart glasses, we did this in a Shenzhen smartwatch factory But everything changes once you feed that live glasses audio/video to AI And let the AI whisper back assistance in workers ears ;)

Smart glasses see what workers do So robots can learn to do the same work On Mentra smart glasses, we did this in a Shenzhen smartwatch factory But everything changes once you feed that live glasses audio/video to AI And let the AI whisper back assistance in workers ears ;)

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