I just found out about them and it seems super good. I wonder why Meta doesn't support such a thing called "Meta Glasses Application Store"

So without their cloud service no apps.

Wouldn‘t call that an OS.

Live translation is something I've been dreaming about since Google Glass. I just want translation, subtitles, turn by turn directions, and ad blocking.

How open-source are these glasses really? Are all software components compilable from source, or do they just publish an SDK Espressif-style?

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.

this doesn't include AR right? it can't overlay stuff on what i'm seeing? if not, then it's pretty useless

Here's the deal, you don't need any of this.

I have Rayban Metas and the hardware is great...but the software borders on being unhelpful. If they merely served a dumb camera and bluetooth headset to my phone they'd be an unbelievably good product.

Meta won't do this because they want to capture _everything_ going on, but I don't want to chat with Meta's AI, it is very bad, I want to chat with Gemini or ChatGPT and I can do so with their glasses but I must initiate that on my phone (Meta won't give you wakewords for OpenAI/Google of course).

So my suggestion here would be don't? There is no need for an app store or anything like that, just the thinest software layer you need to make the sunglass hardware work as a dumb bluetooth headset and remote camera for the user's phone.

If smart glasses can’t self-adjust vision or flag cataracts, they’re missing the point. This is not being discussed.

> Devs get to write 1 app that runs on any pair of smart glases.

Except it seems they only run on Mentra glasses. Not Meta Ray-Bans, Echo Frames, or any of the many other existing smart glasses platforms.

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.

Store requiring an account, and apps actually running on their servers.

This is definitely not the smart glasses operating system to converge on.

If there's anything worthwhile in it I'd advise interested people in forking it, and turning it into an actually open open-source operating system.

Very excited by all this! Have been searching for something like this for so long!