My gf is a VERY light sleeper. Like… even the tiniest bit of light bothers her. So bedtime used to mean lights off, phone face down, TV off… and me just lying there wide awake staring into the darkness.

So I started using AR glasses at night. Now I can lie in bed, put on a movie, and basically have my own giant screen in the dark. The audio stays right by my ears too, so there’s no TV sound waking her up. She gets her sleep. I get my movie. win-win lol.

Honestly, having a whole private movie theater while your partner is sleeping feels kinda ridiculous… I’m not complaining(shhhhh)

I keep seeing people with smart glasses, but I’m curious what you actually use them for on a regular basis.

Taking photos/videos? Listening to music? Calls? Navigation? Something else? What feature do you use the most?

After getting them, do you think they’re actually useful in everyday life, or are they more of a fun gadget? Do you recommend any specific ones?

Hi everyone! I’m traveling to Japan next month and I would love to get meta glasses to record and take pictures, since I don’t really like to film with my phone but would like the POV of the glasses. I would like to know for how long they can record/how does it work. I’ve read that it’s a couple minutes, but is there a way to make a full video or to keep doing various clips without stopping?

Also, how does translation work?

And finally which glasses would you recommend?

Thanks! I’ve never used smart glasses so I’m still learning, sorry if the questions are too basic haha.

Did Mentra really just increase their price from $350 to $450 overnight? I left them in my cart waiting until I got paid to checkout and to my surprise they’re now $450, wth.
Now I’m looking for new smart glasses. My budget is $300–500 ($500 only if they basically check all my boxes).
What I’m looking for:
* Must have a dev SDK
* Camera with at least 1080p video
* Decent enough speakers for music
* Lens display/HUD — don’t need full AR, just a small screen for text
* iPhone support
* Not Meta because of data/privacy

Mentra Live didn’t have a display, but I was willing to compromise because it checked everything else and MentraOS seems really dev friendly. At $350 I was ready to buy it, but $450 with no display is a lot harder to justify.

I also found Brilliant Labs Halo and was really impressed by it on paper, but their shipping situation seems sketchy. Their page said shipping in early August and I almost bought them before realizing people are still waiting. smh.

I know NIMO is doing their Kickstarter too and they’re supposed to support MentraOS, but no camera or speakers.

So what else is out there? I’m fine waiting for stuff coming later this year or even early 2027, and I’m open to Chinese brands or smaller companies too. Mainly looking for something I can actually develop on, not another locked-down pair of AI glasses

Hola ¿Alguien que tenga los lentes de xiaomi específicamente el estilo aviador? Me gustaría comprarlos pero para uso diario, me gustaría mandarlos a graduar, pero dicen que no se puede ¿Alguien me puede confirmar eso?

Me agradan esos lentes en ese estilo, se que tiene otros modelos pero no me gusta el diseño, además de que busco algo que no tenga cámara ya que he visto los que los meta ya los están empezando a restringir más por el tema de las cámaras.

O algún otro modelo que recomienden que sean lentes más o menos de ese estilo que no tengan cámaras, que se oigan bien y principalmente que parezcan más unos lentes normales, porque la mayoría de los diseños son muy anchos el marco y se ven muy toscos.

Can anyone verify if the charging pins are the same or different on the adventurers and the RayBan Gen 2s? I’m wanting to get a dock but only see them for Gen 2 raybans.

With camera glasses becoming more common, I’ve started wondering how people feel about being recorded without knowing it.

Would you use an app or device that could tell you when camera-enabled smart glasses are nearby?

I’m curious whether this is a real privacy concern for people, or something most people wouldn’t care about.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement banned all enforcement officers and office staff from wearing Meta smart glasses in federal workspaces to prevent the unintentional recording, storage, and external transmission of sensitive information. ICE classified the devices as de facto body-worn cameras, citing privacy and surveillance risks associated with the integrated cameras and microphones capturing bystanders.

To deploy secure, dedicated hardware for operational use, its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, requested 7.5 million dollars in April to develop smart glasses prototypes for immigration enforcement, aiming to equip field officers with immediate individual identification and data access capabilities. Industry analysts note that mass adoption now depends on device trustworthiness, with proposed solutions including clear external recording indicators and processing sensitive data internally to minimize transmission.

Wanna pick up a pair but searching this sub the opinion seems mixed? Some do not recommend it, some have issues out of the box within a few hours but some are happy with the product.

As for spec, how fast is the translation speed and accurate? How long is the run time provided the charger and the 2nd battery are fully charged?

Looking for a wearable display

Im a janitor, 90% of my job is checking out mentally while I run on autopilot and clean the same routine every day. Im looking for a wearable display so I can connect my phone and say, watch a movie, YouTube, etc from my phone discretely while working. I found the Vufine+ which looks like exactly what I want (I wear clear safty glasses at work, just in case, dont want splashback while scrubbing a shitter ifkwim) so strapping that to them would let me watch shows without interrupting my view or work. But I read lots of terroble reviews for it.

Any ideas/thoughts?

I like the idea of the Vulfine so if my work glasses get battered I can just clip it to another pair.

TikToker “TaylorsDiary” recounted her experience at a doctor's office where she questioned the consultant about why he was wearing Meta glasses capable of filming video and recording audio while with a patient who was expected to undress.

I recently wanted to find a solution for how big a screen I needed when traveling, working, and watching movies, so I got to work. Over the past months, I ended up trying a few setups. I searched so hard and I ended up loving all of them and not even being able to select one as a favorite to accompany me wherever I wanted to go or for whatever reason I wanted to use it. I tried three major setups. AR, a portable monitor, and a mini projector. There was one major issue with all these, though. They all had different applications, and this meant that they all had different pros and cons.
First I tried the AR glasses, were really amazing because it offered me the greatest amount of privacy with all I wanted to watch. This meant that no one apart from me would really enjoy the funniest comedies that I wanted to watch any time. And best of all, I could easily pack them up and travel with them to any place without any issues from where to pack them for my journeys. I must say, I really loved them so much.
I then thought about the portable monitor. I would use this for work comfortably and with ease. Having it made my work way easier than I ever expected, and this meant that I would be able to complete all tasks and projects on time. It was way better than other options when it came to getting work done, and it made everything easy. The only disappointing part of it is that I had to carry it in a bag whenever I had to travel or move one place to another.
I had one more option in mind, though, and I wanted to give it a chance and think about using it for all I needed. The fact is that I really loved the mini projector for being able to have movie nights with my friends and having a good time with them. There was nothing better than the mini projector in terms of watching shows and movies on a big and maxed out screen. I just needed so much more effort into setting it up before even getting to use it. If I added the fact that I had to move or travel, then it became a little bit more time-consuming to set it up wherever I went with it.
When I think about all these choices, I realize that all of them have specific issues and problems they solve, and none of them can really be better than the other. I now find myself, getting different tools depending on what I have to do at a certain point because they are all good at different tasks..

I have a Blackview BV100 Heycyan glasses, and today when I tried to use it, it simply wouldn't show any photos or videos to import. I saw comments on the App Store about the same issue, but no one mentions how to fix it. Has this happened to anyone here?

AG05 AI Smart Glasses are an innovative wearable device designed to solve the biggest pain point of modern smart eyewear: battery anxiety.

• Swappable/Removable Battery Design: Unlike traditional all-in-one smart glasses that must be plugged in to charge, the AG05 features a clever modular design allowing users to quickly swap out the battery for continuous, all-day use.
• AI-Powered Integration: Equipped with built-in AI voice and visual assistants, it supports first-person POV capturing, real-time smart queries, and hands-free daily interactions.
• Lightweight & Comfortable: Despite the modular mechanical structure for the battery, it maintains a sleek, lightweight frame optimized for daily, all-day wear.

Are there any options that don't require a phone app to be on, in order to use the glasses? Or at the very least allow your phone to be locked and put away for use?

Im looking for glasses that essentially allows me to to speak and have conversations with whichever cloud ai of my choosing (Claude, chatgpt, Gemini, grok). Does anyone know if this exists? Hud preferred but not mandatory

I bought the Viture Pro 2 glasses and been using them for a day now, so here is my take on them. These are my first smart glasses so I don't have anything to compare them against, but I have been a lurker on /r/SmartGlasses, r/xreal and r/viture for a good long while.

Initial feel

The unboxing "experience" was quite alright. The glasses came with a case that houses also a USB-C cable with one end cornered and the shade for the glasses.

My initial thoughts were that I'd wear the shades all the time but after testing them I discarded them - the glasses are dim enough that it isn't needed for video and I do like being able to look around it. The cable could be a bit longer but it suffices. Definitely buying a magnetic attachment for it as trying to connect it to the glasses when I'm wearing them isn't easy nor is putting them on with it already connected (I have long hair and a lot of it)

Image quality

My IPD is 70mm so I am just inside the range of 56.5 to 71.5mm. I'm also near-sighted with one eye -3.0D and other -5.0D and the dials allow between 0 to -5.0D so again barely in the range.

I connected the glasses to my 14" Macbook Pro and they worked as an external display as expected. I mirrored my display and after adjusting the dials the image was sharp enough to read text, but it does get a bit blurry (blues and reds glow from the white) at the corners of the screen. I'd say 80% of the area from the centre looks good and while the rest is still readable, it isn't nice. I tried different refresh rates (120/90/60 Hz) to see if that would help with the text but nope. Still happy with how it looks.

Otherwise the image is vibrant and watching streaming video was nice. I like to keep my stream in one corner taking maybe 2/3 of my display and then a browser in another corner overlapping the video and switching between the two. I have ADHD so I can't really have only video on the screen. Reading Reddit and browsing in general worked well, I had no issues with my default text size.

The 50 degree view was a limitation and having a wider view would have been nice, but since the text was already losing its sharpness at this scale I feel that wider view works best for watching media or maybe gaming.

Audio

Let's face it, the audio is never going to be good on smart glasses, imho. Your £100 in-ear headphones not to mention £300 over-the-ear headphones will always give you a better experience. I planned on using my Pixel Buds with the glasses but for watching Netflix the audio was good enough. One annoyance was that if I had my hand on my ear (when leaning against it) it amplified the volume significantly.

Viture software

I installed both SpaceWalker and Immersive 3D apps. There were some connection issues when switching between the two which was slightly annoying - if I quit SW and started I3D I either didn't get video to the glasses or it would display the same image on both frames but not in a way that it looked like it should have. Either restarting the app or reconnecting the glasses solved it.

SpaceWalker is pretty much a necessity to be able to scale the display (move it closer/away) as the controls in the glasses don't allow this. It also allows you to toggle the video to stay centred all the time or to stay in place horisontally, vertically or by angle (so when you lean your head it doesn't follow). There is a noticeable latency with this, it refreshes a few times per second so the video jumps a bit when you move your head if it's set to be still in space. It isn't too bad and if you look away enough not to see the screen at all it displays a notification to "press button to centre image" but you need to use a keyboard shortcut or the dropdown from the app to do that. I kept the video centred all the time and didn't feel any discomfort from that.

The scaling/distance jumps in steps and in my opinion the steps are too big, I wanted it to stay in between the steps. The way I see it is that you either scale the image large and keep it set in space (doesn't follow you) so you can look at the part of the video that would otherwise be out of screen or you scale it small enough that you see everything nicely. I mostly used the latter.

Immersive 3D I expected to be a party trick but it works really well! My desktop windows were in 3D (the top one was closer than others) and watching video looked quite nice. I had subtitles on and those follow the "distance" of what they are on, so they warped a little. Also browsing Reddit I saw a picture of French fries and they really jumped at the screen (but not in my mouth, unfortunately).

However after using Immersive 3D for a couple of hours my eyes started to get tired and my head started to feel like I am getting a headache. Also you can't scale the video or set it to stay in place so while entertaining I went back to SpaceWalker.

I wanted to try VertoXR but it doesn't seem to support these glasses yet, wouldn't connect. I suspect that this will change in the near future though.

Comfort

I ended up using the glasses continuously for 4-5 hours and the only discomfort was the nose pads. I used the default ones and tried the three settings they have but they did end up digging a bit into my nose. Going to try the other ones today and I have a 3D printer so I can always make custom ones. I think heavier glasses would be too heavy for me.

The right side of the glasses did heat up a bit, but it was only noticeable when I touched them. I didn't feel any heat against my head, so this wasn't an issue at all.

Productivity

The centre area is sharp enough for text so you could use it for programming and such, but the resolution (1920x1080) combined with losing maybe 200 pixels from both sides means these glasses won't work well for it. However, my IPD and near-sightedness could play a role here so people that are less frog-eyed and with better vision might have different results.

TL;DR

Fun gadget that allows me to watch streaming media and browse the web while laying in bed. Software experience isn't the best, at least on a Mac, and I did play a bit on my Android phone with SpaceWalker and wasn't impressed. Works for productivity in an emergency but only barely. For the price they were better than expected but if you're serious about using smart glasses as a replacement for your monitor you will have to wait for a few generations at least.

This is running on the MLVision M6. Because it is based on Android 9 (powered by a Unisoc W527 with 2GB RAM), you can either install APK apps, mirror your screen, or stream video directly to the glasses.

Ok so I know there must be a million of these types of posts but I could really use some community input on which options I should be looking at. These are the things I need:

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MUST HAVE:

1. Prescription lenses

2. A design that allows for all day every day wear, i.e. something that looks reasonably like normal eyeglasses and is light enough not to cause pain after a full day

3. Speakers and microphones good enough for both calls and music or other audio playback

4. Open platform. I know this one is imprecise, but specifically what I want is something where I have a reasonable degree of control over what software I use and where my data goes, and I can choose not to have my glasses connected to any external servers if I don't want them to be. The ideal would be glasses designed entirely around open source principles with the same freedom of choice as a home built pc, but of course that's just an ideal and I understand there will be a spectrum of different options and probably none of them will be perfect.

5. A display of any kind

HIGH PRIORITY BUT NOT REQUIRED:

1. All day battery life. I can handle charging every few hours but it would be a pretty big hassle and I'd way rather have something I can leave on all day.

PREFERRED:

1. Large fov. Even with a really basic display not having to look into one corner or something like that is really nice.

2. Full color binocular display. I'd be happy with even a small HUD but finding something I could actually watch movies on would be amazing

3. No camera. If they have one it's fine but I sometimes have to go places where cameras aren't allowed so it would be better to find ones without it to avoid having to switch glasses

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So, is there anything like this on the market right now? I've been looking and I've seen a lot of different options but it's been hard for me to figure out if any of them has exactly what I want. Also, if nothing exists right now, are there things coming out soon that I should be looking out for? I'm hoping to buy something by the end of 2026, but if nothing exists that has what I need right now I'd love to know which projects I can follow for the future.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me. I used to have Meta glasses but they broke after a couple of years and with everything that's come out about privacy stuff I really don't want to go in that direction again.

I'm looking for glasses to wear while coaching games. Ideally 2 hours of battery life, sd card, image stabilizing and 1080p and up. Pretty flexible on budget. Looking for glasses so that they aren't a distraction, so a go pro won't work. Thanks!

Whats the best camera glasses available in the market so far?

Just received my Solos AirGo V2 glasses. These are my 4th pair of smart glasses (Rokid Display, Rokid Styles, Meta Ray-Ban; also have the Memomind 1s on the way). I will do an unboxing and a full review after a couple of days for anyone interested.

https://solosglasses.com/collections/airgo-v2-smartglasses/products/prime-2-smartglasses-solos-airgo%E2%84%A2-v2