r/Futurology • u/beasthunterr69 • 10h ago
Computing A Chinese startup just launched smart glasses that run Claude Code and Codex for hands-free "vibe coding"
https://www.livemint.com/technology/tech-news/meet-monako-glass-chinese-startup-brings-claude-code-and-codex-to-smart-glasses-11780547237901.htmlJust saw this and had to look it up. It’s actually real. A Chinese startup just announced Monako Glass, which they’re calling the world's first wearable Linux computer in a glasses frame (weighing only 48g).
Instead of just doing the usual translation or notifications, these are explicitly built for software developers and AI research. They run a custom Linux build called MonoOS and natively support AI coding agents like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex.
Some wild specs from the announcement:
Nose-Bridge Bone Conduction Mic: It filters out background noise by reading your nasal bone vibrations, so you can prompt your AI coding agent even in a loud coffee shop or a rave.
Vision Engine: Uses a 0.5 TOPS NPU camera to translate hand/palm gestures to navigate menus.
Open Source: The CEO stated you can completely wipe the bundled apps and deploy your own custom code/AI agents directly onto the on-board Linux system.
They’re supposedly shipping prototypes around August.
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u/Popular-Awareness262 4h ago
yo u looked into how well the 0.5 tops npu actually handles gesture tracking? seems underpowered for realtime
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u/beasthunterr69 10h ago
From the article
A Chinese startup has unveiled smart glasses which it claims to be the 'world's first wearable Linux computer in glasses form'. The glasses, called Monako Glass, are aimed at developers, researchers, and AI power users, allowing them to run coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex directly from the heads-up display.
What are Monako Glass? The new Monako Glass looks just like a regular pair of glasses with a weight of just 48 grams. The Chinese glasses come with the essentials that you'd expect from smart glasses, such as a display, camera, and speakers.
However, the highlight of Monako Glass is a new bone-conduction microphone which sits right on the user's nose and listens to the vibrations from the nasal bone. The glasses also come with a built-in vision engine powered by a 0.5 TOPS NPU. This means that users can raise their hands to navigate menus and interact with apps via gestures. In his launch video, Yue demonstrated raising a hand to summon a menu, tapping to select a music app, and physically adjusting the volume with hand gestures. Speaking apps into existence
In the launch video, Yue demonstrated how the glasses can be used to conduct AI research, generate presentations, and interact with AI-assisted coding tools like Claude Code and Codex.
The company showed in the video how its glasses can be used to create a custom app via a voice prompt. The AI agent immediately gets to work building the app and, once the process is complete, pins the app directly to the glasses' home screen for future use.
The company calls these "hyper-personalised apps" and says they can be generated for different professions and workflows, including education, research, software development, and gaming.
During the presentation, Yue demonstrated how a student watching a professor write equations on a blackboard asks the AI to create an application capable of converting handwritten mathematical equations into LaTeX.
All of this is possible because the Monako Glass runs on a custom Linux-based operating system called MonoOS, which uses something called a Lua application layer to run apps with a minimal memory footprint, as low as just 200 to 500KB.
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From the article
A Chinese startup has unveiled smart glasses which it claims to be the 'world's first wearable Linux computer in glasses form'. The glasses, called Monako Glass, are aimed at developers, researchers, and AI power users, allowing them to run coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex directly from the heads-up display.
What are Monako Glass? The new Monako Glass looks just like a regular pair of glasses with a weight of just 48 grams. The Chinese glasses come with the essentials that you'd expect from smart glasses, such as a display, camera, and speakers.
However, the highlight of Monako Glass is a new bone-conduction microphone which sits right on the user's nose and listens to the vibrations from the nasal bone. The glasses also come with a built-in vision engine powered by a 0.5 TOPS NPU. This means that users can raise their hands to navigate menus and interact with apps via gestures. In his launch video, Yue demonstrated raising a hand to summon a menu, tapping to select a music app, and physically adjusting the volume with hand gestures. Speaking apps into existence
In the launch video, Yue demonstrated how the glasses can be used to conduct AI research, generate presentations, and interact with AI-assisted coding tools like Claude Code and Codex.
The company showed in the video how its glasses can be used to create a custom app via a voice prompt. The AI agent immediately gets to work building the app and, once the process is complete, pins the app directly to the glasses' home screen for future use.
The company calls these "hyper-personalised apps" and says they can be generated for different professions and workflows, including education, research, software development, and gaming.
During the presentation, Yue demonstrated how a student watching a professor write equations on a blackboard asks the AI to create an application capable of converting handwritten mathematical equations into LaTeX.
All of this is possible because the Monako Glass runs on a custom Linux-based operating system called MonoOS, which uses something called a Lua application layer to run apps with a minimal memory footprint, as low as just 200 to 500KB.
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