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MentraOS – open-source Smart glasses OS

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206 points arbayi | 2 comments | 05 Sep 25 16:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.397s | 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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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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1. 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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2. esseph ◴[05 Sep 25 19:02 UTC] No.45142331[source]▶
Sounds like a lobbyist pitch from Big Camera Glasses