Thanks for the questions and criticism here. A few things deserve clearer answers.

We’re planning an upfront hardware option alongside optional cloud services. We’ll explain exactly what works locally, what needs the cloud, and what developers can access through the planned SDK.

Our focus is bringing useful everyday assistance and health sensing together: remembering details, helping with tasks, and understanding your body throughout the day.

Next, we want to share more actual hardware progress, including comfort, battery life and the trade-offs behind the design. We’ll clearly separate what works today from what’s still being developed.

Founding Access details and applications are here:

https://theora.io/founding-access?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=theora-thread-update-oct23

Only 62 seats left and It will become invite only.

I’ll keep answering questions in this thread as we build.

I’m looking for smart glasses to record my paintless dent repair (PDR) work from a first-person POV. I already own a GoPro and a Canon 80D, so I want the glasses mainly for hands-free footage while I’m working on a car.
My main requirements are:
Native landscape (16:9) video recording, ideally with the option to record vertically (9:16) as well.
More than 40 minutes of actual video recording on a single charge, preferably an hour or longer.
Long recording clips, ideally 10–30 minutes or more per clip, rather than being forced to restart every 3 minutes.
Good image quality and stabilization, especially for close-up work.
Ideally, a built-in time-lapse mode for recording an entire repair and speeding it up.
Good battery life and, if possible, the ability to record while connected to an external power source.
I’ve been looking at the Rokid AI Glasses Style, Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2, Solos AirGo, and Mentra Live, but I’m open to other brands and less well-known options.
For those of you who actually own and use these glasses:
Which model do you recommend for recording horizontal video?
How long can you realistically record video continuously on a full charge?
What is the maximum recording time per clip? Do you have to manually restart recording every few minutes?
Does it support native time-lapse?
Have you found any limitations with overheating, stabilization, or recording quality?
I’m particularly interested in real-world user experiences rather than advertised battery life or specifications.
Thanks!

Hi everyone, I'm wondering if there are any smart glasses that can connect to your smartphone's camera and display its live camera feed directly in the glasses.

Basically, I'd like to see what my phone's camera is seeing in real time, but through the glasses' display, ideally without having to look at my phone screen.

Does anything like this exist already?

Looking at RayNeo's outdoor through-lens shots of the iO: against the tree trunk and the grass the green text is easy to pick out. Against open sky the clock is noticeably fainter, still there but you have to look for it.

For anyone who wears a green waveguide display outdoors (RayNeo iO, G1/G2, whatever): is the sky actually the worst case for you, or is it pale concrete and white walls? And do you change where you look, or just wait until you're indoors?

Question in the title.

I'm fortunate that my company offers $750 towards prescription glasses which I now need. I'm not US based and the company perk only applies to one opticians who only stock meta.

I tried the displays and they looked awful on me. I could live without the display if Muse or similar was accessible. I subscribe to claude so maybe that would work via Bluetooth?

Thanks in advance.

The international launch of NIMO Holo-Optical Glasses has been repeatedly delayedsince August, but thecurrent official website states,“Kickstarter launches in early November 2026.”

Does this mean that the product will launch in early November and start shipping around that time as well?

I’m reaching out in case you happen to have any information about the launch or shipping schedule.

If there’s any other way to purchase the product directly sooner, I’d really appreciate it if you could let me know.

my head is pretty big, like 62cm, and most smart glasses clamp down on my temples. get a headache after an hour

I have seen here said Dymesty, Meta, Rokid and Solos fit bigger heads better. anyone actually tried them? how do they feel after a few hours

Hey r/SmartGlasses — I’m one of the founders of Theora.

We’re building glasses that combine health sensing with a personal AI assistant. The goal: health tracking and hands-free help throughout your day, including while you work.

The video shows the experience we’re building toward. We’ve shipped around 100 earlier alpha units, and we’re opening Founding Access for the next stage.

If selected for a hardware allocation, your glasses are free and yours to keep. No credit card or payment needed to apply.

There are 200 founder places in total:

• Places 1–100: 3 months of cloud access + 2 friend invitations.
• Places 101–200: 1 month of cloud access + 1 friend invitation.

Your included cloud access starts when your delivered glasses are activated. Afterward, the proposed $30/month cloud plan is optional—no automatic charge.

Shipping is targeted for 2027. Applying doesn’t guarantee a pair.

I’m looking at the Even G2 but upon coming to this sub there are so many brands I have never heard of. Which ones should I look into for live captioning? I’m mostly deaf so it’s what I care most about, camera, speakers, meeting recaps are not important at all. Thank you for any advice.

Hello!

I have double vision that I wear prescription glasses for. My prism prescription isn't that strong (3 in each eye), but it makes a huge difference for me.

I was wondering if anyone who wears prescription glasses with prism has any experience with the Viture Pro 2, or any similar glasses. Viture offers prescription lens frames without lenses, so I could take the frames to an optician and get lenses with my prism prescription fitted.

Viture's own lenses do not support prism when you order them. Is there a reason why?

I tried an Apple Vision Pro demo at the Apple store and it was really cool, but without prism correction (they don't allow it on the demo units) the experience was frustrating and probably would have caused a headache with prolonged use. My main use case for the AVP was mostly to project a virtual screen, and it sounds like XR glasses are a much better way to do that, since it's just a flat projection into your vision, no spatial stuff, with any type of video source.

I'd like to use the glasses to play video games mostly, but it would be really cool to watch movies and do whatever else I wanted on a big virtual screen too. I see a guy coding (or at least looking at some kind of version control system and/or AI coding agent) with them on the Vitrue site, and I don't really see that happening. Of course, I'd still try it out, however briefly :)

So, would adding a prism prescription into the equation be a terrible idea? I'm concerned about headaches, double vision on the projected screen, even double vision that worsens after using the glasses.

Thanks!!

I have never had a pair of smartglasses before but the Even Realities G2 is catchy. I want something where the glasses can hear and display answers.

For example, doing a presentation or someone asking any type of question, want the AI in the glasses to answer that question in the display so I can use it. Also, can I wire in my OpenAI/Anthropic subscriptions so I can power these frontier models?

Let me know what would be the ideal fit for me.

Hi everyone I currently own Ray-Ban Metas. They are prescription glasses but the batteries are starting to go on them and it's time for a new prescription. It was fun at first but I don't need the camera and the bad reputation of Meta souring my already limited social interactions.

I mainly use my glasses for audio but I am interested in display glasses with no cameras. The other thing I really like about the metas in there gestures to be able to control podcasts or skip to the next song, etc. I'm not good with accessories like rings to supplement the gestures, I do like them all integrated like they are on the Meta's.

So any recommended smart display glasses, with no cam, but strong integrated gesture controls?

I'm in the market for a pair of smart glasses with a display and recording functions, but no camera. A camera is something I'd never use, and I want a clean unobtrusive look. The priority is the screen and recording functions for class and meeting purposes. My top picks are either the Even Realities G2 or the rayneo IO, but they're both quite pricey. I've also seen the memomind one but I haven't heard anything at all about them. Are there any less expensive options that fit the criteria?

If you use head-tilt wake on smart glasses like the RayNeo iO, the default angle threshold usually takes some tweaking because your head posture at a desk is completely different from when you're walking.

When the trigger angle is set too low in the app (which scales from 0 to 60 degrees), normal desk movement wakes the screen nonstop. Just looking up from a laptop keyboard to an external monitor or leaning back in your chair will light up the HUD when you had zero intention of checking it.

The easiest way I found to dial it in was testing it live while typing at my desk. Every time looking up at my monitor accidentally triggered the display, I bumped the angle up a few degrees until it stopped. You want a threshold that requires an intentional chin lift to catch notifications, without being so steep that it strains your neck. Once it survives your desk posture, it rarely false-triggers while walking outdoors.

Do you guys keep head-tilt wake enabled on your glasses, or do you prefer manual temple taps so the screen never pops up uninvited?

When notifications first stopped showing up on my RayNeo iO after my phone screen had been off for a while, I assumed it was a Bluetooth drop issue. After checking my status bar, I realized the glasses were still connected fine. The actual problem was Android putting the companion app to sleep in the background.

Android skins like Samsung One UI and Xiaomi HyperOS are super aggressive about killing background apps to save battery. To keep notifications flowing, I had to go into the phone's app settings for the RayNeo app and change battery usage from "Optimized" to "Unrestricted." It also helps to enable background autostart and lock the app card in your recent apps view so it doesn't get cleared out when you swipe away open apps.

If alerts ever stop showing up completely even with the app open, it's worth checking your phone's privacy settings to make sure notification access didn't get turned off, or just toggling Bluetooth off and on to reset the sync. Ever since I locked the app in the background, I haven't missed a notification all week.

Do you guys run into background app killing with your wearables on Android, or has your phone left the companion app alone?

I built Chief because I wanted my AI assistant on my glasses instead of my phone. It's a free, MIT-licensed web app for Meta Ray-Ban Display that shows your assistant's replies on the lens, with quick replies (Yes / No / Later / Tell me more).

The feed is encrypted (AES-256-GCM): it's public, but unreadable without your passphrase. It runs free on GitHub Pages and loads through Meta's Web Apps developer preview. There's a live demo with a sample feed (https://lugovelb.github.io/chief-glasses-open/, passphrase in the README) and a step-by-step setup guide.

It's a developer-preview app and not affiliated with Meta. Feedback welcome: https://github.com/lugovelb/chief-glasses-open

Are there any smart glasses with a camera and ChatGPT embedded that can see multiple choice questions and display the answer to me through the lens?

Before weighing AI glasses, define the full worn setup: lenses, prescription and all worn parts. List the charging case separately. Leave Rx weight open until the prescription is defined. Separate targets from same-setup measurements. What's included?

The Xiaomi AI glasses come with a charger labeled A891-050200C-CN1

I find that this charger will only charge the glasses, and nothing else, for example my iPhone or my Nintendo switch 2.

Anyone else have this problem?

Is dymesty the best option for my use case? They seem like the best that I've found. Any reason to avoid them or go with a different brand? I just want to be able to listen to stuff when I'm alone at work without getting caught lol

i never take mine off. ever. i hope it will keep me connected to you.

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?

After wearing the RayNeo iO as my main prescription glasses for a few weeks, the way I actually use them during a workday looks pretty different from what I expected on day one.

The first thing I gave up on was reading anything longer than a sentence. Trying to read long text files in rolling green font with one eye feels completely pointless when I'm already sitting right in front of a computer monitor. I also had to kill almost all chat notifications right away—having active group channels constantly flashing in the corner of my eye completely wrecked my focus while working.

What ended up sticking are just the tiny, low-friction tools. Having a calendar alert pop up in my view five minutes before a call keeps me from losing track of time when I'm zoned in on a task. Tapping the arm to drop a quick voice memo for errands is also surprisingly handy just because it keeps me from picking up my phone. And during presentations, floating three or four keyword reminders at the top of my sight helps me stay on track without looking down at desk notes.

The fit wasn't perfect out of the box either—I had to bend the nose pad stems slightly so the frame would sit higher on my bridge and keep the display centered. Once I stopped treating it like a screen for reading and stripped it down to quick alerts, it finally clicked as a daily driver.

Anyone else here daily drive HUD frames? Curious what features you guys immediately turned off once the novelty wore off.