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Launching Mentra Live open-source smart glasses. Deploy smart glasses for real world work. We already shipped thousands. Now, they're generally available. Build apps that leave the screen. Let your AI step into the real world.

@armandokirwin You can do that yourself by turning on the VAD and running the wake word engine on the phone side.

@caydengineer Very interesting. Do the Mentra glasses support a custom wake word?

My team just called me from the side of a mountain in China On their smart glasses These smart glasses can join Teams, Google Meet, or Zoom calls from your POV.

@vedrinaM @MentraGlass Awesome. Let us know if you need any support

@caydengineer Congrats! Fantastic product. In 4 days we achieved more with @MentraGlass than what we were able to do with a "well known brand" in one year. Now we can confidently move on to the next challenge

Many people are saying this The future of computing is open and user controlled. Choose your AI, choose your reality.

@swathko We already have it. If you need three plus units, email us. If you need just one unit, we'll add it to the website very soon.

Deploy Mentra Live and build your own apps: MentraGlass.com

@Scobleizer @MonakoResearch Mentra has shipped thousands of devices and 10,000s of users have used our app on third party glasses. Monako hasn't shipped. Nothing against Monako, they are cool and it takes time to ship, but let's not spread misinformation...

This morning I interviewed the founders of @MonakoResearch coming from Hong Kong and Shanghai with a new pair of AI glasses with a Linux underpinning, and far more openness than Snap, Meta, Google, or Apple can ship. They took over X a couple of weeks ago when they launched. Why are new wearable computing brands, like Monako, coming from China? And finding business where San Francisco based businesses like @MentraGlass not able to get nearly the same customer base built fast? Because of their cities. Shanghai alone has something like 40 million people living in a fairly small space. They told me that the Chinese consumers' friends are almost wholly online. And when they go out into the street they have a lot more robots to serve them already. My 16-year-old is living this way too. For three years every day he starts up Discord and joins his friends who live thousands of miles apart. They are closer than any friend group I've ever had. In Shanghai everyone lives in a high rise building with small apartments or homes. I met a professor at a university who invited me to see his. 900 square feet. And unlike my home, you can't go visit natural beauty easily. My autonomous car can drive me to a 3,000-year-old redwood tree in less than 30 minutes. And a beautiful beach another 10 minutes away. That doesn't exist for most people in China, at least not close. So they have many more consumers who are willing to put on a device to play games with others, or work together in a new way. It is that customer base that gives entrepreneurs ability to iterate faster. And the factory system all around is able to make things and iterate faster too. This "market plus supply chain" advantage will prove very difficult for Silicon Valley or San Francisco to disrupt. It's why @fdotinc tells its entrepeneurs to go to Shenzhen for a month to learn about this two-headed monster. For decades China stole Silicon Valley technology. Now the table has turned and we gotta steal back. But China can use our legal system against us. How many copyright lawsuits are American companies facing? Many. How many are Chinese companies facing? Literally none, because American content producers know that such a lawsuit won't bear fruit in China with its legal system. None of the Chinese companies can get attacked that way. Its legal system doesn't protect copyright or patents the same way, which frustrates American entrepeneurs. But it's the internal market in China, along with the supply chain, that's the real advantage, and why companies like Monako are going to be the disrupters finding new markets faster than older Silicon Valley brands can. I'll get the video up later this week. But it's worthy to know just how much ahead the Chinese consumer is and that "aheadness" and "scale" is going to drive Chinese brands faster than anyone who isn't located in one of China's megacities. Just the way the world is from now on. America can keep out the Chinese brands for a bit (you can't get a Huawei phone here) but the Chinese will take over the rest of the world and then eat away at getting into America. We can't see it now, but someday a Chinese company will be in a place to buy Apple or Google or Meta. Or just make it irrelevant over time. It's why gadget freaks like me are gonna increasingly go to China to see the latest. There are new ideas for how computing devices will run in the future, thanks to AI, that will be resisted by the big companies here in Silicon Valley. Like a completely AI-run operating system for the glasses that takes away the need for an app store, or even applications. The leaders there will be China who don't have existing business models to protect. We're heading into a very different world than I saw coming all my life driven by Silicon Valley's startup ecosystem. Apple has Formula 1, which will keep it relevant for quite a while world wide, but I see the innovation coming from a range of new startups like Monako, not from the big American tech giants. Consumer behavior is shifting much faster in China's megacities than it is here in America. Just the way it is, and is something to learn about if you are aspiring to start a new American brand, like @getVITURE is, or @MentraGlass are. They are swimming upstream compared to their Chinese based competitors who have this two-pronged ecosystem advantage. Will be interesting to see if we can disrupt all this. Will require execution at a high level, and customer development that will be much tougher in America than in Chinese megacities. One guy is still sitting out consumer wearables: Elon. He could change the playing field. Can anyone else? Not while everyone is bashing Snap's glasses for being ugly and ignoring the utility that it brings to the field. The Chinese will figure that out quickly and then it'll be too late. We should be much more supportive of Snap's efforts, but we aren't. And that will doom us.

Founding Engineer put OpenClaw on his face and it runs his life now?

@NimaZeighami @redaction Let's POV live stream at AWE?

@redaction Just landed in LA an hour ago after a month in Asia Feelsgoodman

I’m looking forward to coming back to California I love East Asia but I miss my simple routine This has been an extraordinarily refreshing trip across Japan and Taiwan

@reagan_hsu @gregpr07 @MentraGlass We have hundreds of companies deploying Mentra Live for video calls, AI assistants, auto documentation, etc. Camera, speaker, mic, touchpad, button, full SDK smart glasses

@gregpr07 @MentraGlass I always see mentra at hackathons but havent seen anything crazy projects that come out of them

are there any smart glasses out there that have long-lasting battery + always-on mic + good sdk? I don't care about the screen on the glasses at all tbh

@sfxdotcom @MentraGlass hell yeah. Yes we just added Rx lenses and we'll add sunglasses soon too

Spent most of my young life avoiding glasses and wearing contacts, before finally get LASIK and never having to worry about wearing them again. Now you're making me wish I still needed glasses regularly, haha. Any plans for sunglasses? Would love to utilize this out in the wild or on the beach.

Your app already works with these smart glasses. Pair them like headphones to use Google Meet, Spotify, WhatsApp calls, etc. out of the box. Want more? Load up the Mentra Bluetooth SDK and add camera, buttons, etc. right in your existing mobile app.

Build and deploy smart glasses apps: MentraGlass.com

@OlManMakowski @MentraGlass Cord stays plugged in, it's a USB webcam.

@caydengineer @MentraGlass Does the chord need to stay plugged in or just on set up?

Our smart glasses now work as a USB webcam. Plug them into your laptop and your computer sees from your point of view. Use it in Google Meet, Zoom, OBS, Python, or straight to your OpenClaw. We're making smart glasses so open, you don't even need our app.

@MizzyMogs @MentraGlass Stream them anywhere you want.

@caydengineer @MentraGlass Can we stream this to live streaming platforms like Twitch/YouTube or is this an in house streaming site just for the glasses?

@Ford_Lascari @MentraGlass Yes!

@caydengineer @MentraGlass gotcha, so y'all at this point largely provide the OS sdk to be able to interact with the various glasses?

We put 1000s of hours into building open-source camera glasses And now we're giving away everything we learned for free. Checkout this in-depth teardown of the Mentra Live smart glasses. As an OS company, our goal is to spread our OS. That goal encourages us to do crazy things, like build the world's best AI glasses for business and then show you how we made them... all in the name of spreading the OS. It also convinced us to make it 100% open source, so adoption is faster and easier. We're at risk of our competitors easily copypasting our code now... all in the name of spreading our OS. Now we've built the glasses for you, and we've taken the risk, and we've released an open SDK. Now your AI apps and agents can enter the real world on smart glasses. So now, what will you build?

@Ford_Lascari @MentraGlass No display But MentraOS support multiple display glasses like NIMO, Even Realities, Vuzix, etc.

@caydengineer @MentraGlass Do these project anything onto the lens? There is display in the SDK docs, but the purchase page says no display

@Elenion88 @MentraGlass Not in this version, no

@caydengineer @MentraGlass any tracking if the user's eyes/face?

@measure_plan @thecureforblur @MentraGlass Prescription lenses are available on our website MentraGlass.com/Live

@thecureforblur @caydengineer @MentraGlass looks great i need some prescription ones :]

@FlakeSamael @EsfandTV @MentraGlass You can't do this with Meta glasses.

@EsfandTV @caydengineer @MentraGlass Esfand you know you can do this with the meta glasses right? There are apps on both iPhone and android that let you use the camera as a source in obs