Mentra | Choose Your Reality

We worked 996 in Shenzhen making smart glasses so you don’t have to. AI has made us 100X smarter… unless you work in the physical world. That’s because AI can’t see, can’t hear, can’t act in the physical world. But now with smart glasses, it can. But making smart glasses is really hard and expensive and you’ll probably fail. That’s why we made open source smart glasses, so you don’t have to. Mentra Live is for building and deploying apps that let AI see, hear, and act in real time. Think of frontline workers wearing smart glasses as AI whispers repair instructions in their ears, salespeople getting live tips to close a deal, manufacturing inspections verified with AI vision, delivery drivers saving minutes per door. The software under-the-hood (MentraOS) is open source, which means you own the app, the data, the glasses, the deployment. You can start deploying smart glasses now. Mentra does the glasses OS, hardware, and infra - you build the app and deploy it. What will you build?

Share Your View with the Mentra Community We are opening the Mentra Gallery, a place where the community can share the world as they see it. From normal everyday moments to crazy unexpected scenes, we want to highlight your perspective captured through Mentra. Submit your photos/videos for a chance to be featured in our official gallery. Selected images will be published on /gallery Your perspective. Your moment. Seen through Mentra.

We built and shipped smart glasses from scratch in 12 months. The hardware wasn't the hardest part. A year ago we launched MentraOS 1.0, the first open operating system for smart glasses. Early adopters could install apps and get new experiences on their glasses. Builders finally had a real dev platform. But it only supported glasses with displays. We quickly grew to thousands of users, and hundreds of them asked for the same thing: camera glasses they could actually build on. Glasses that were unlocked, that didn't stream your view straight to Meta. Glasses that put you in control. Notes, AI, live streaming, recording, take calls, talk to AI. So we built them. In February we shipped the first 1,000 Mentra Live smart glasses. This week we ship batch 2. But here's what's interesting. We shipped with a broad feature set, and the user signal was immediate: AI notes. Not streaming. Not general-purpose AI. Notes. Users love it, they're filing bugs on it, they're telling us exactly how to make it better. That's the signal we wanted. So we've gone all in. Notes is one of the first times I've genuinely gotten sustained value from smart glasses (alongside translation in China!). Expanding your memory while staying present in the moment, capturing what what matters from what you hear and what you see. Less gimmick, more augmentation. In a world where everyone is racing to build the everything device, focus wins.

My cofounder spent the seed round on La Croix and Claude Code. I got so mad I forgot what we were even fighting about. Good thing my Mentra Live smart glasses take notes of everything I hear and see. Convos, whiteboards, charts, whatever’s in front of me.

Human memory is so much more than what we say. Whiteboards, drawings, graphs, and images are just as important. We’re visual creatures, and your notetaker should be visual too. Introducing Mentra Live, smart glasses with an AI notetaker that doesn’t just hear what you hear, it sees what you see. Thousands have already shipped. Check it out:

Today, we’re shipping Mentra Live smart glasses. Cayden and the team just hand-delivered the first pairs in San Francisco. From giving AI eyes, to livestreaming on any platform, we created MentraOS to be an open source environment that constantly evolves. This is only the beginning. Full video drops next week!

Smart glasses should seamlessly integrate into everyday life. Mentra Live gives you always available access to audio, letting you play music, take calls, and listen to podcasts anytime, anywhere. Swipe for volume. Slide to skip. Tap to play/pause. Music is just one of the apps available on Mentra MiniApp Store. Mentra Live Batch 1 is shipping tomorrow!

Mentra Live smart glasses takes AI notes and reminders to the next level by adding a visual component. It's always on, meaning you can be more efficient, work smarter, and get things done. Utilize AI hands-free in everyday life. Batch 1 shipping is this Friday! Get in on Batch 2 before they sell out: /live

We just launched the world’s best smart glasses captions app. It’s fast, it’s accurate, it works in noisy environments, it tells you who’s speaking (diarization), and it’s 100% free! Built for numerous smart glasses, including Even Realities and Vuzix, anyone can access Mentra’s Captions through MentraOS. Just download the Mentra app, pair it with your smart glasses, and tap the Captions app to see it on your phone and glasses.

ChatGPT was blind. Not anymore. With Mentra Live, AI can see what you see – translate signs, track your calories, save a hand-written note for later, and, yes, instantly compare prices!

With Mentra Live smart glasses, we'll never restrict where you can livestream to... X, YouTube, Instagram, Twitch, OnlyFans, and more! Your eyes, your ears, your choice.

Did you know that Mentra Live is the only smart glasses with an app store? And the only smart glasses where you can livestream to any social platform you want (X, YouTube, IG, Twitch, OnlyFans, and more) – Meta Ray-Bans only allow IG and FB! We put out our first press release here: /blogs/blog/our-first-press-release-mentra-releases-first-smart-glasses-with-an-app-store