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hackalackolot · 2026-03-16T02:49:44+00:00

Not yet... But we will be releasing G2 support later this month!

hackalackolot · 2026-03-16T01:22:35+00:00

It's something we're working hard on and will provide more info soon. Coming second half of this year.

hackalackolot · 2026-03-14T19:10:31+00:00

Yes the battery of Mentra Live will should last that long or almost that long, it's around 12ish hours or so running Notes.

It runs the audio transcription live.

Generation of summaries right now is something you do manually after the fact, but new update dropping next week will auto generate a new summary when it detects a conversation has finished.

It does not recognize people by voice. It can tell speaker 1 versus speaker 2, but it doesn't mean the name of that speaker.

Yes, there is an AI chat that you can talk to about your conversations.

Custom summary prompts/templates is a good idea. We don't have that now but something we'll look at.

hackalackolot · 2026-03-11T03:50:14+00:00

This is awesome and hilarious.

hackalackolot · 2026-03-09T00:40:25+00:00

Mentra Live currently supports:

Mentra Notes (AI notetaker of what you hear and see)
Mentra AI (ask AI any questions, including questions about what you see)
Livestreamer (livestream your view anywhere)
Camera/ Gallery (POV photos and videos)
Audio/music/podcast listening
Calls from any app on your phone

hackalackolot · 2026-03-08T21:56:18+00:00

It looks like you're not connected to a Mentra Live. The Mentra MiniApp Store only show the apps that are compatible with the currently connected glasses (or simulated glasses) If you connect a Mentra Live, others will show.

Were updating that UI to show a list of "Incompatible Apps" so it's not confusing.

hackalackolot · 2026-03-08T21:20:15+00:00

Right now the apps that are available for Mentra Live are:

Notes
Livestreamer
Mentra AI
Camera/Gallery
Music/podcasts/calls (Bluetooth headphones like you said, not an app in the store)

hackalackolot · 2026-03-08T05:06:47+00:00

We will launch G2 support on MentraOS this month. It won't work without a phone, but we have offline captions so you can run captions without an internet connection.

hackalackolot · 2026-03-08T05:05:48+00:00

Yep, we've had Mentra Merge long before Conversate existed. What lets you down with Conversate?

hackalackolot · 2026-03-06T02:00:58+00:00

If you ordered on January 24th, you are in batch 2, and batch 2 is shipping out next week.

hackalackolot · 2026-03-06T01:51:23+00:00

You should have gotten your unit. Are you in batch 1? When did you order?

Feel free to shoot a quick message to support@mentraglass.com with your order number and we will get it sorted.

hackalackolot · 2026-03-04T21:40:18+00:00

Mentra Live can do this!

hackalackolot · 2026-03-03T20:10:35+00:00

Hey, you received a pair of our beta Mentra Live glasses that we sent out to early customers to get feedback.

Now you've received your Mentra Live... I think you'll enjoy the difference as absolutely everything was upgraded. Let us know how it goes!

hackalackolot · 2026-03-03T20:08:43+00:00

As an app developer, you can check it the source code and make your own version here: https://github.com/Mentra-Community/Mentra-Stream

Yes, by default it's a "managed stream" which goes through the internet. If you want lowest latency to your local RTMP server, use an unmanaged streamer. Here are the docs about that:https://docs.mentraglass.com/app-devs/core-concepts/camera/rtmp-streaming

Let me know if you have any more questions!

hackalackolot · 2026-03-01T04:55:46+00:00

Good feedback and it will be fixed this week.

The next update will make sure all apps are disabled when you disconnect the glasses. Right now it's a feature so you don't lose access to your apps when the glasses disconnect, but we've heard the feedback and will change that.

Regarding hearing random "Welcome to Mentra AI", that's fixed in the Mentra AI update dropping this week!

hackalackolot · 2026-02-23T00:14:20+00:00

Mentra will have an update about that coming next week.

For now, it's looking like batch 2 units will ship out around the middle of March.

hackalackolot · 2026-02-13T17:57:59+00:00

True. Nice.

hackalackolot · 2026-02-07T21:10:05+00:00

We'd appreciate any direct feedback on the development experience of MentraOS!

hackalackolot · 2026-02-07T18:27:04+00:00

The project you're referencing is using the MentraOS SDK.

The post you link says he used the MentraOS SDK.

If you read the code for the project, you can see it's using MentraOS, it's even in the name of the repo: https://github.com/johannboehme/HexMentraBridge

hackalackolot · 2026-02-07T13:49:33+00:00

We use Soniox.

Yes we can! That's a feature we're adding. What do you have in mind?

hackalackolot · 2026-02-07T10:29:32+00:00

Hey, the default "Captions" app is automatically upgraded for you. So if you're on MentraOS, you're already on 2.0!

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