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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: 0.4s | 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. floren ◴[05 Sep 25 18:51 UTC] No.45142200[source]▶
Not to toot my own horn, but I've been fiddling with a now-discontinued, very cheap pair of display smart glasses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45087803

You can send low-resolution images to them via Bluetooth. I just figured out how to read button presses. There are speakers and a mic, but I haven't figured out how to use them yet (they don't show up as regular audio devices on Linux).

You'd need to write custom stuff to generate the images, but with a little imagemagick scripting I've had some pretty usable results.

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2. bArray ◴[06 Sep 25 14:12 UTC] No.45149412[source]▶
Very cool work, and the write-up is also great.

Personally I want to see something that isn't dependant on a depleting level of stock, ideally something open source. Otherwise the development investment just doesn't seem worth it.