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cayden edited this page May 14, 2022 · 2 revisions

Welcome to the OpenSourceSmartGlasses wiki! We're still organising things here, but this is our plan and docs for now.

If you want to jump ahead to what we're currently working on, go straight to: v0.3 Project Doc

OSSG - Open Source Smart Glasses

  1. All day wearability. There is a difference between something that you could wear and something that you will wear. We are laser focused on building a form factor that users (us) will enjoy wearing from the start in terms of comfort, shape, size, weight, and aesthetics.
  2. Immediately useful. There is a difference between will wear and want to wear. From the beginning, we are designing and building hardware with use cases in mind.
  3. Extendable for makers, startups, researchers, and everyone else. Our Open Source approach is aimed at helping everyone use smart glasses. We believe the most valuable use cases will only arise when smart glasses are accessable to be built, worn, and hacked, so that's what we're making.

Plan

  1. We want full fledged smart glasses with all-day wearability, display, camera, microphone, sensor suite, batteries, wireless communications, speakers, etc. that is low power, low heat, low profile (stylish), and provides a host of novel and valuable use cases, that is as open and extendable as possible.
  2. Trying to do that all at once is too big of a task. Faster, better progress is made if one starts with something that works and then focuses on quick iterationn cycles for building something useful that we can wear all day, everday. We start with something all day wearable, and then we iterate from there.
  3. Instead of just focusing on hardware and hoping that the use case presents itself, our design starts from the use cases that we want, and we design from there.
  4. Build the first version of our glasses that meets the use case but stays technically simpler so we can never stray from our core value of all day wearability.
  5. Once this early version is working and we all wear it all day, move on to more complicated things - like an applications processor and display.

Team Open Smartglasses

Team Open Smartglasses is a group of engineers, researchers, and makers from around the world joining forces to build Open Source Smartglasses. We aren't a business - we're a highly technical team of people who have all built custom wearables on our own in the past, coming together to build the world's best smart glasses, Open Source.

If you're interested in becoming involved, join our Discord: https://discord.gg/5ukNvkEAqT

Use Cases

There is a very, very long list of use cases that we as a team want in our glasses. To start, we are focused on a limited number of them: - conversational intelligence tools - summarize conversations - listen to the converstaion and live look up what is being discussed - when someones mentions something, search my own knowledge base (that smart glasses can create by seeing everything you see and hearing everything you hear) for related items that are related based on meaning - health understanding and tracking - stress levels, energy levels, general mood, when to take a break, when to rest, when to exercise, when to eat, general mood, stress, energy levels, etc.

Versions

  • v0.1 - basic proof of concept glasses and electronics done privately
  • v0.2 - 3d printable glasses with prescriptions lenses, microphone array, battery power, and RP2040 microcontroller
  • v0.3 - v0.2 with ESP32 custom board and Bluetooth streaming of sensors to the Wearable Intelligence System (https://github.com/emexlabs/WearableIntelligenceSystem) for conversational intelligence tools
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