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Mentra (YC W25) Is Hiring: Head of Growth to Make Smart Glasses Mainstream(ycombinator.com)
1 points by caydenpiercehax 11mo ago
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Mentra (YC W25) is hiring to build smart glasses
1 points by caydenpiercehax 1y ago
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by caydenpiercehax 1y ago
MentraOS allows multiple apps to run at the same time and access context at the same time by running apps in the cloud. This is enabled by relay servers. You can use Mentra's relay server, or host your own. This is the architecture tha
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by caydenpiercehax 1y ago
Translation, subtitles, turn by turn directions - use them today! Ad blocking - we'll need a research team and 5 years https://xkcd.com/1425/
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by caydenpiercehax 1y ago
You're right, it doesn't. Because the glasses that you can actually wear today are not MR/AR. But as the tech progresses, so will MentraOS to support spatial experiences.
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by caydenpiercehax 1y ago
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.
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by caydenpiercehax 1y ago
That sounds nice but there's problems in reality. How do the glasses serve as a "dumb camera to your phone"? What protocol do they use to do this? It doesn't exist. It's something that must be solved at the OS layer
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by caydenpiercehax 1y ago
Most people pursuing this include display + microphone. The microphone lets you pick up voice, which is critical. Captions, translation, note-taking, etc. all benefit from this. Even Realities G1 is this. Mentra is releasing a pair in first
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by caydenpiercehax 1y ago
I lived in the woods during my undergrad too: https://medium.com/@caydenpierce4/the-homeless-hippie-cyborg... This was in between two stints living and working in a mobile RV hacker lab: https://www.youtube.
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by caydenpiercehax 1y ago
The 3 seconds of latency is writing a bitmap image from the phone to the smart glasses over BLE. It's very fast to send text, but slow to send bitmaps. For text, everything is fast - the AugmentOS servers introduce <350ms round trip
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by caydenpiercehax 1y ago
Mentra Live is indeed a camera + speakers + microphone pair of lightweight smart glasses - that you can build for. Mentra Live runs AugmentOS, so you can control all the I/O (camera, speakers, mic) in your own app with the AugmentOS SD
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by caydenpiercehax 1y ago
100% agree. I've been building smart glasses for over 7 years. First 6 years were in academia because the tech wasn't ready yet, because they were too heavy and battery didn't last long enough. But in the last year, all-day b
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by caydenpiercehax 2y ago
We've been building smart glasses tech for a long time. 6 years ago, we realized it was super hard to make apps for smart glasses due to lack of software ecosystem. Since then, we've seen lightweight, all day glasses hardware arri
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Language Learning Smart Glasses(glossana.glass)
3 points by caydenpiercehax 2y ago|1 comments
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by caydenpiercehax 2y ago
We're a team trying to learn languages faster. We bring proven language learning tools into real world second language conversations. These smart glasses give you live rare word translation, second language captions, contextual word su
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by caydenpiercehax 3y ago
Proactive AI is the killer app for Smart Glasses. Could smart glasses make us more intelligent and creative while improving our memory in conversations? Yep, that's exactly what we've built - and it's called Convoscope. Convo
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Convoscope: Smart Glasses Intelligence Tools(teamopensmartglasses.com)
5 points by caydenpiercehax 3y ago|4 comments
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by caydenpiercehax 3y ago
It's a 2 layer PCB. I put all the components on one side for simpler PCBA. The other side of the board is pretty boring - just a ground plane and a couple traces. Like others said, this whole thing could be done on a single layer if yo
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by caydenpiercehax 3y ago
Yeah totally agree, circuit generators are powerful. There's a lot of cases where you decide your higher level constraints (e.g. I want a filter of this architecture) and the rest is plug and play with equations, which can (SHOULD) be
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by caydenpiercehax 3y ago
Thanks for the feedback. There's definitely a lot more that goes into a serious design. I purposefully chose a simpler design to experiment with automating the easy but repetitive stuff. To address a few points and how software-defined
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by caydenpiercehax 3y ago
Great idea. Yeah, that could be done. First pass would be to bundle the LEDs based on their type - just change the ordering from an ordering based on physical position to an ordering based on the logical meaning of each connection. In the s
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by caydenpiercehax 3y ago
When I started designing PCBs a few years ago (after some years of electronics prototyping and software engineering) I was somewhat shocked by the manual, repetitive tasks I kept doing. So, I tried to automate as many of these small tasks a
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Automating everything in a USB cable tester PCB design(jitx.com)
77 points by caydenpiercehax 3y ago|42 comments
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Mobile Hacker Lab Tour(youtube.com)
3 points by caydenpiercehax 5y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Memory Expansion Tools, extend your memory and thinking(memoryexpansiontools.com)
1 points by caydenpiercehax 7y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: SnipGen, enhanced coder workflow. Code snippet gen with Vi/m bindings(github.com)
3 points by caydenpiercehax 7y ago|0 comments