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MentraOS – open-source Smart glasses OS

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206 points arbayi | 1 comments | 05 Sep 25 16:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.245s | source
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andrewla ◴[05 Sep 25 18:13 UTC] No.45141730[source]▶
Is anybody making smart glasses that are just a display? For me, the rest of the feature set verges on being anti-features. I'd much rather a very rudimentary display that my phone or another device could send relatively low bandwidth data to over bluetooth or some other protocol and build from there.

Having a camera or a mic on the glasses themselves seems like something I'd mostly want to avoid for privacy, and having a speaker just seems like gilding the lily when we already have a variety of headphones to choose from.

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1. skhameneh ◴[05 Sep 25 18:26 UTC] No.45141898[source]▶
Not quite "smart glasses", but if you want "glasses that are just a display", the Lenovo Legion Glasses are pretty good and they look like normal aviators at first glance.

I have a pair and I've been experimenting a bit.

For iOS you can mirror display or use Stage Manager. For Android, at least with Samsung, DEX is pretty decent.

For audio, they're decent too, I like the convenience and comfort. The audio has good fidelity, but depth is mediocre (better than phone speakers though).

FWIW I say DEX is decent, having much of the same gripes as I do with Stage Manager. Dual screen, resizing windows, and full screen support is still a mixed bag on all mobile devices. It can be very frustrating at times. Application support on iOS and Android is about the same, which is disappointing. Supposedly iOS 26 fixes some of this, but I haven't tried the beta.