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MentraOS – open-source Smart glasses OS

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206 points arbayi | 6 comments | 05 Sep 25 16:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.815s | source | bottom
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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. HeatrayEnjoyer ◴[05 Sep 25 18:37 UTC] No.45142046[source]▶
Glasses with a camera should be legislated away with specific narrow exceptions for e.g. safety in certain industrial tasks.
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2. skhameneh ◴[05 Sep 25 18:43 UTC] No.45142106[source]▶
Reframe this to accommodate for the prevalence and general expectations of where cameras exist.

Many people walk around with a mobile device out, essentially carrying a device with (increasingly) close to a 360 camera view. Cameras are ubiquitous and targeting one niche device is a waste of time and effort.

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3. esseph ◴[05 Sep 25 19:02 UTC] No.45142331[source]▶
Sounds like a lobbyist pitch from Big Camera Glasses
4. com2kid ◴[06 Sep 25 01:14 UTC] No.45145648[source]▶
Because smart glasses, that flash a light and make a loud noise when taking a picture, are more invasive than phones literally everywhere? Or street billboards with built in cameras?

Or how about dash cams in cars? CCTV cameras on ATMs as you walk down the street?

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5. 1oooqooq ◴[06 Sep 25 14:11 UTC] No.45149407[source]▶
"why would murder be illegal? people get killed all the time. are you going to outlaw cars because you can run over someone? murder laws make no sense."

kids these days. geez.

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6. com2kid ◴[06 Sep 25 16:03 UTC] No.45150442{3}[source]▶
The point is, smart glasses (which to be clear only take a picture when a button is pressed, just like any other camera people own) are not different than any other camera.

Also in the US there is no legal expectation of privacy on public streets. Plenty of public facing webcams are available for viewing.

Passing a law regulating the shape of a camera body is just stupid. Outlawing camera glasses makes less sense than outlawing camera flowers.