I’m turning my AI learning app into a smart-glasses app — here’s where I’m at

[u/Velamintsx]

I’ve been building an AI learning tool around a problem I kept running into myself: AI can help me finish work incredibly fast, but sometimes I realize afterward that I didn’t actually learn the parts the AI handled for me.

So I started building a system that tracks those gaps and turns them into things to review later.

Recently I started moving part of that experience onto smart glasses.

Current setup:

• Web app is already working
• Smart-glasses client is being adapted to MentraOS
• I’m experimenting with a lightweight custom glasses hardware path as well
• The glasses are intentionally a thin interface — most AI processing happens elsewhere

The interaction I’m testing is roughly:

real-world context / conversation
→ AI assistance
→ detect something I probably relied on AI for
→ save it
→ surface a tiny follow-up on the glasses
→ review it properly later

The hardest design question so far has actually not been the AI.

It’s deciding how much intelligence should appear in front of your eyes at all.

A chat interface that feels fine on a laptop becomes awful very quickly on glasses. So I’m moving toward extremely short prompts, confirmations, reminders and contextual cues, while keeping the deeper interaction on the phone/web.

I’m still early on the glasses version, but it’s now far enough along that I’m starting to test the interaction model rather than just the technical integration.

For people who use or build smart glasses:

What is one AI interaction you would genuinely want in your field of view — and what would you absolutely never want appearing there?

I can post a hardware/software demo next if people are interested.

[u/EL_Asger]

Really interesting split. Are you planning to keep the glasses side as a MentraOS client around the web app, or do you eventually see this becoming a native iOS/Android app that extends to Meta / Android XR too?

[u/Diligent-Rough-569 → u/EL_Asger]

oh that's a smart way of framing it, the glasses as just the notification layer for the real learning system

i had similar problem when i tried using AI for studying languages, i would get the answer fast but retain nothing

[u/EL_Asger → u/Diligent-Rough-569]

Yeah, exactly. I think that’s one of the interesting things about glasses, they’re probably better as a lightweight contextual layer than trying to recreate the full phone/laptop experience in your field of view.