Ask HN: Is anyone building their own AR glasses?

Posted by cactus-tree on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @06:34PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I would love to connect with other hackers building their own Frankensteins.

I'm working on making Nreal glasses standalone. It's a sandwich of an RPI Zero 2W alternative, a custom companion PCB, a battery, and a camera. You attach it to the glasses and plug them into it. Since it has a camera you can design any user interface and vision-based applications directly on it.

I'm also requesting a Lumus Z-Lens devkit as it seems to be a game changer.

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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone building their own AR glasses? by nomad-nigiri on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @06:36PM (#42629055)

Yea!! I was looking at some options in Alibaba. Haven’t found anything good. Anyone root meta glasses yet?

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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone building their own AR glasses? by cactus-tree on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @06:43PM (#42629101)

Cool! What are you working on? What were you trying to find?

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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone building their own AR glasses? by nomad-nigiri on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @07:00PM (#42629245)

Industrial use case safety googles. Not very exciting.

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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone building their own AR glasses? by nomad-nigiri on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @07:18PM (#42629400)

What are you working on?

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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone building their own AR glasses? by cactus-tree on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @07:43PM (#42629597)

My end goal is to make glasses that can do a real-time AI translation, showing up as subtitles under people's faces. So that I can move countries without having to worry about not understanding anybody.

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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone building their own AR glasses? by nomad-nigiri on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @10:17PM (#42641257)

https://hallidayglobal.com/pages/how-it-works

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