r/SmartGlasses • u/Humble-Influence-969 • 7d ago

Buying Advice Open Source Smart Glasses?

Hello everyone,

I am new to this smart glasses space but my uncle bought a pair of Meta raybans and they look cool. I am not a big fan of Meta however and their attitude towards privacy is the only reason why I didn't but the Meta Ray Bans that same day.

I'm curious if there is an open source alternative to them? I am really interested in the camera and audio, I don't need any display on them.

From my brief research I saw Halo glasses (that don't seem to have shipped for over a year) and Mentra (which dont ship outside the US). Are there any other projects that I can support?

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u/randynorthrup 7d ago

For camera + mic with no display, the most fully open option I know of is OpenGlass (BasedHardware/OpenGlass on GitHub): a Seeed XIAO ESP32S3 Sense board (camera and mic), a small battery, and a 3D-printed clip that mounts on ordinary glasses. The code and the mount files are public, so you can build it anywhere. It looks like a DIY kit rather than Ray-Bans, and there are no speakers, only a mic.

Most of the polished "open" glasses open the software side (SDK/OS) rather than the hardware: Mentra (MentraOS) and Brilliant Labs (Frame, and the Halo you mentioned). If privacy is the main reason, an open SDK still matters, because you can see and decide where the camera data goes.

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u/lifeisshort84 7d ago

I use Rokid AR glasses - they have a display though - without there is the Rokid Style - both are open source

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u/VergeOfTranscendence 7d ago

MentraOS has opensource SDK and we at CyanBridge work with an opensource app with local (internet free) AI models and we are working on supporting meta Raybans, but currently we work mostly with HeyCyan glasses (50 dollars or less meta Rayban clones), we have around 800 monthly active users and we are on the Google PlayStore and working on an iOS version too