alt Hacker NewsCongratulations for the project and for winning the hackathon, nicely done!
I am looking for hackable smart glasses with camera which doesn't rely upon any proprietary service to work, Mentra seems to have a camera version but this video seems to suggest that we need to use their service all the time?
Mentra Live is indeed a camera + speakers + microphone pair of lightweight smart glasses - that you can build for.
Mentra Live runs AugmentOS, so you can control all the I/O (camera, speakers, mic) in your own app with the AugmentOS SDK.
Regarding use the backend service all the time: Most apps/developers connect through official AugmentOS.org servers and focus on building their apps, but you can self-host your own backend if you want.