MentraOS – open-source Smart glasses OS

Good to see someone jump on these early with FOSS. Seems pretty early days for the this OS and the tech though. No device has full support yet. I'm still not convinced smart glasses are going to have any staying power either.

I would save your excitement. It's likely the same old playbook that every PE backed startup uses

Fwiw we've been building open source smart glasses tech for 7 years, without a dime of funding until ~9 months ago, you can see it all on GitHub. We actually want this next platform to be open, that's our mission.

I don't ever doubt the founders or the early employees. We may not even fault the investors. Its just the nature of the beast that when funds are raised, returns need to be made on investments and that typically dictates certain business practices that are currently prevalent here in silicon valley.

I'll cite the recent thread with Ollama's founders - they said the same thing of wanting to always be open. But if they truly cared about the FOSS community, they would not have moved to shadily fork llama.cpp instead of just contributing to that project and stating it proudly/clearly. This came to a head recently with their priorities becoming clear for the launch of gpt-oss to the point that even Georgi Gerganov himself spoke up.