We Built Open Source Smart Glasses 

Great work man! It wouldn't have happened without your contributions.

All info in the GitHub

That's what my mom always says.

You can do so with the SmartGlassesManager on most major consumer smart glasses (Vuzix, Inmo, Activelook, etc). Not in JS, but in Java (Android).

Many of these glasses offer the opportunity to integrate a prescription lens insert.

AFAIK actual auto-adjust prescription glasses exist in research and medical, but there's not market pushing them forward as they cost 100x a regular pair of glasses, and prescriptions change slowly, so what's the point?

@@caydengineer i see.

They have display and prescription already.

Yep, great use case. See Xander, XRAI, and TranscribeGlass.

Thank you very much!

Thanks Greg!

Thanks Tom, great to meet you IRL at CES. Looking forward to the next IRL event.

So true!

What support do you need?

It's all on the GitHub and GitHub wiki linked in the description.

Yes, but this ussually results in a very uneven and uncomfortable and odd looking experience. Full integration is the better solution in my opinion.

@@caydengineer Your design seems to have lenses in them; do you support prescription lenses? How do expect that process to work?

Answered my own question; looks like the frames are very similar *cough cough* to a pair from Zenni. Good choice, whoever made that call.

@@davidskidmore3442 you are right!

Get night vision goggles.

Let me know your thoughts on the experience using the esight 4!

@@caydengineer I ll, hope it works, in myself, and give me again autonomy… the only problem, here, is is 10000€, the device I ll send you a message

Perhaps for a test procedure, but it doesn't seem economically viable for every prescription lens glasses to be electronic and programmatic prescription. I imagine we'll see this with automated eye tests long before everyone wears glasses that change to their eyes.

All info is on the GitHub and GitHub wiki, linked in description. Resourcefulness is as important as perseverance.

@@caydengineerThanks, is there a build guide available anywhere?

@@crashtestrc7213 I just told you where it is. You are not resourceful enough to successfully build smart glasses.

@@caydengineerOk, I'll stick to airplanes.

Cool! Feel free to share your project! Yes, contact me on Discord, see description or teamopensmartglasses.com

You can't order/buy it.

Lol

Thanks! First edit was 30 minutes, lol. Had to cut a lot.

Cheers and thanks a lot!

No, you would have to build your own or have someone build you a pair.

Thanks Erik, it was an adventure!

Gaming, probably yes! Productivity, maybe. When you're travelling in a cramped space it could be a good monitor. You likely won't ever use this as a monitor if you have a real one on hand.

One day! ;)

Haha, please link said batteries.

Possible to do if you upgraded to have multiple microphones, which is needed for localization. Would want to expiement with various modalities of HCI for this use case. Visual might be work but I imagine spatial haptic would be better.

I mostly agree. Aesthetics, I.e. social comfort is huge. Physical comfort usually follows if social comfort is met (not always, weight be roughly

It's all on the GitHub and GitHub wiki linked in the description.

Cool, how do you envision using it/how would it work to help your ADHD?

Feel free to describe your needs here or send me an email.

Can you link to it? I doubt it though, Android is too power hungry. The first consumer smart glasses will use MCUs.

What do you want to make?

Prism aren't the solution, but neither are bird baths. Bird baths are heavy, bulky, and obstruct the eyes. Waveguides or another technology will prevail - something lightweight that doesn't obstruct the eyes.

@@caydengineer True, north's focal has come a long way on that front, but I was talking about a baseline standard. We're a few years away from seeing something like focal at the 2-300 dollar price point.

It's a good idea, there are a number of these on the market (search for motorcycle helmet AR display HUD).

@@caydengineer they are all rubbish though. Last thing you want inside a motorcycle helmet is a solid piece of matter which may be mashed into your face/eye on a bad day. The projector needs to be embedded into the foam shell besides the eye/cheek and be projected directly onto the inner surface of the visor. Also, very specific functionality and operational characteristics are necessary for it to be widely adopted by riders. HUD for speed, adjustable bike settings, warning indicators, P2P coms only and a range of simple, effective and immediately accessible control interface for things like position/translucency/brightness/selected info etc. Some people may wish to have integration with Google maps, phone call/message, music, etc but these are all hit and miss and unless the fundamentals are done perfectly it's all a waste of time and effort anyway. Other features a smart helmet could/should have is built in, high powered LED lighting for seeing through corners when riding in darkness (could have auto dimming and/or power off when encountering oncoming vehicles. The battery pack / power would most likely have be remotely mounted but it's not out of the scope of possibilities and if a tether was incorporated, an additional line could be included for water / visor ventilation....) Once the key things are done properly and no encroachment on the desirable elements of riding are imposed on the rider as a trade off, smart helmets will take off. Just don't try do too much, less is more and any unnecessary complexity/inconvenience will detract 1000x more than the desired /elements/benefits will add to the desirability factor.

Thank you! Everything is on the Github linked in the description.

Thanks! Checkout the first 90 seconds of this video for some details on that. The previous video was audio glasses with no HUD. This video we added the HUD. Cheers!

​​@@caydengineer Hey man! Are you planning to use waveguide optics or MOMS in the future? And also if you don't mind can you make a video on different technologies used in smartglasses Great work man! All the best!

Yep! That's what I did! See the repo in the description.

Would it be possible to put step by step "how to guige" to the GitHub repo.

See the GitHub

Thanks!

If you provide more detail, I may be able to help.

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Yes, we're working on that!

Thank you! They aren't for sale. You can build your own, or buy a COTS smart glasses, like Vuzix Blade 2 or Activelook Engo 2.

@@caydengineer Thanks again, love your work!

~$500 if you made only 1 and already had all the tools.

😳im a broke kid lol. can u make a vid for a low cost smart glasses?

​@@caydengineer Is ~95% of the cost the Sony 336C OLED display? I don't see any other really expensive parts. Can't find a BOM on the project github or discord.

Haha best part.

Quite a bit, but briefly: The OpenSourceSmartGlasses are open source, moncular, and wireless, designed to be worn around in daily life. Nreal Light and Air are tethered, stereoscopic, with better optics for screen viewing but not designed for all day use.

Features i want is word search function. Glance around a supermarket and the item your looking for is highlighted. Basic Heads up display : heart beat graph, body temp, blood pressure, O2 lvl, time, humidity? Maybe a mini map/gps map or instead a 3d display of that path you’ve taken. So you can see where you maybe wasted time or steps. Would also help for back tracking when losing things. As you would know your path and head orientation could help you to stop from looking in the same spots. Obviously it needs to have auto dim and be able to display web pages. If i could go further id pack a ir camera and a ir LED in there for night vision. We could source very tiny high def cameras from drones. It would be pretty basic night vision but it should be better then nothing. If thats not possible just put a led in there with a focusing cone so you can read with it.

It's something to highly consider, but it's mostly the same problem as smart phones. The novel issue here is the potential to collect even more invasive and continuous personal sensory data. There's a lot of angles to discuss this from, but from a pragmatic, market-driven angle - these things are coming either way, so let's solve/mitigate the issue. We're doing so, partially, by creating open source tools (namely the smart glasses manager) that provides a layer of user autonomy over their data and, importantly, their sensory experience/reality.

@@caydengineer we need personal intranets that we can build and keep at our house physically separated from the internet. That way we can compile our data for our own possible uses.

Vuzix Shield!

Nope.

It's available open source to be built.

Thanks. High FOV is harder because it requires higher red, which is higher bandwidth, and AFAIK requires a fisheye style lens which sticks out from the glasses, which looks weird. I do agreed that higher FOV cameras on smart glasses are better! I'd rather lower PPD and more content to understand the context.

@@caydengineer higher red? The lens doesnt need to stick out much at all, look at any modern phone, they got very nice fov on the widest lens. My S10 in portrait mode can capture a document on the table in front of me more or less.

It's all on the github

@@caydengineer I don’t have GitHub

But I don’t have GitHub

@@caydengineer but I don’t have GitHub

teamopensmartglasses.com

The video you linked is featuring the Vuzix Blade. It's a completely different pair of smart glasses than the OpenSourceSmartGlasses we built in this video.