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by alex1115alex 9mo ago
The QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES permission (what an Android app needs to see all the packages installed on your phone) is a little weird. The user doesn’t get prompted and explicitly grant permission for it like they would for something like MICROPH
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by alex1115alex 1y ago
We're going to be putting out a Mentra Edge SDK in the next few months, but it comes with some downsides. Using your phone as a compute device is a battery hog, and you can only connect one app to the glasses at a time.
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by alex1115alex 1y ago
It has always been possible, we've even seen someone in our Discord host it directly on their phone using Termux: https://github.com/Mentra-Community/MentraOS/tree/main/cloud
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by alex1115alex 1y ago
Hey thanks for commenting. Developers host their own apps - they don't run on our servers. See: https://docs.mentra.glass/ubuntu-deployment https://docs.mentra.glass/railway-deployment In your opinion,
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by alex1115alex 1y ago
Mentra Live runs AOSP similar to the other AI glasses on the market (Ray-Ban, Xiaomi AI Glasses, RayNeo V3 AI Glasses, etc). It's heavy, but allows us to ship fast. You'll find this code in `asg_client` folder. We're also wor
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by alex1115alex 1y ago
MentraOS is a cloud OS (there doesn't exist a good way to build this on the edge, we've tried). Users don't need our cloud service, however, as it can be self-hosted: https://github.com/Mentra-Community/M
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by alex1115alex 1y ago
It's all open-source: https://github.com/Mentra-Community/MentraOS
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by alex1115alex 1y ago
Hey, thanks for commenting, but this isn't true. You can check out our glasses compatibility list here: https://github.com/Mentra-Community/MentraOS/blob/main/glass... We're also looking to sup
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by alex1115alex 1y ago
In terms of all day wearable HUD glasses: Even Realities G1 are the best HUD glasses on the market right now. They’re the first pair (with prescription) that I can wear all-day without pain, and without looking like a dork. My team used to
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by alex1115alex 1y ago
I have a pair - they're not as integrated as you'd think. It's essentially a BLE device that projects text/data sent from your phone, so any data transmission depends on the companion app you use. Shameless plug: We buil
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by alex1115alex 1y ago
This exists, sort of. I got a demo of these at a YC event a couple months ago and was very impressed. The back is opaque, though, so it's not real AR, but it does accomplish "E-Ink displays in a glasses form factor": https:&
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by alex1115alex 1y ago
You don’t have to be incorporated for Azure startup program. Sole proprietor LLC works fine. It’s kind of an insane deal… $125k credits for a $150 LLC and a YouTube demo.
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by alex1115alex 1y ago
The Unitree robots look great in videos, kind of suck in reality. The motors in the humanoid (G1) overheat after shaking hands a few times, and the wheeled dog (GO2W) drifts like a broken RC car and constantly topples over in motion. They a
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by alex1115alex 1y ago
You can absolutely find more feature-packed glasses. Epson, XReal, Viture, Vuzix Blade, TCL RayNeo X2/X3, INMO Air 1-3, etc. The issue is all these weigh north of 70g (too heavy for comfortable daily wear), and/or require a wire t
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by alex1115alex 1y ago
Mentra here. The Nordic MCU they use isn't actually the limiting factor, rather it's the glasses' firmware. For bitmaps from third party apps (like AugmentOS), they enforce 194 byte chunk sizes and do not support RLE. Their f
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by alex1115alex 1y ago
The hotspot settings are particularly barren. You can turn the hotspot on/off, change the password... and... that's it. They can't be used for anything useful, like detecting when a device connects/disconnects. I'm
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Learn languages faster with smart glasses(twitter.com)
3 points by alex1115alex 1y ago|1 comments
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by alex1115alex 1y ago
Our team is filled with language learning nerds. Something we found while learning Chinese and being in China is that one of the hardest parts of language learning are the uncommon words. For example, when a native speaker says something li
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by alex1115alex 1y ago
AugmentOS is open source, so feel free to self-host, or even reference our communicator code in our repo to interact with the glasses directly via BLE. This is an inferior means of development, however. By going through AugmentOS, you get a
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by alex1115alex 1y ago
You can get prescription inserts from Vuzix, but they're pretty bad. If you need a prescription, and want to run AugmentOS, your best bet is to buy the Even Realities G1 instead.
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I put sheet music into smart glasses [video](youtube.com)
200 points by alex1115alex 1y ago|67 comments
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by alex1115alex 1y ago
One of our users documented projecting sheet music onto his smart glasses's display (with a HUD). He did a great job documenting the limitations of 2025's tech, but it gives a great look into what's going to be feasible next
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by alex1115alex 1y ago
Surprised to see so much love for Kate here. I've always felt it has too much UI clutter for to make for a good Notepad.exe alternative, but too few features to be a good VSCode alternative. It seems most default KDE apps suffer from i
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by alex1115alex 1y ago
One of our app devs built this recently, but for swearing: https://youtube.com/shorts/FthRCwn1JuM?si=lC3eWAUI7sV-LL-r A wearable speech coach would be awesome, though. Detect filler words and give you an alert on your
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by alex1115alex 2y ago
Preach. My team's building an OS for smart glasses and some of our most common feature requests are iOS notifications & being able to reply to them. We're going to have to do insane things to get them working. Due to how ANCS
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by alex1115alex 2y ago
Awesome to see Firebender launch here! My team discovered it a month ago after ages of trying (and failing) to find a good "Cursor but for Android Studio" and we've been using it daily ever since. Yesterday, with one prompt,
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by alex1115alex 2y ago
Awesome job launching guys! We used Browser Use last week to order burgers from our smart glasses: https://x.com/caydengineer/status/1889835639316807980 One thing I'm hoping for is an increase in speed. Right
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by alex1115alex 3y ago
Good question! Convoscope already has an Android app. While its primary use-case is displaying live results on smart glasses, it can also be used standalone with results displaying on-screen, or read aloud with TTS. This is also the premise