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Our First Press Release: Mentra Releases First Smart Glasses With An App Store

January 15, 2026

Historically, Mentra has not sought out press attention. In fact, even when we raised an $8M seed round in 2025, it was an afterthought. That's changi...

Batch 1 Is Almost Sold out! Join the Mentra Founder's Club

January 5, 2026

Introducing the Founder's 1000 Club. There's only a few glasses left in Batch 1 that gains you automatic entry.

Mentra Live Shipping Update

December 21, 2025

We’re delaying Mentra Live shipping by six weeks, and it will now ship to all US batch 1 customers on February 15. We’re sorry for the delay. The Ment...

Making Mentra Live

December 21, 2025

Making Mentra Live Thank you to everyone who has ordered Mentra Live, attended hackathons, and given your feedback and requests – you’ve helped shape ...

1 Year of Mentra

November 30, 2025

As of November 25, it’s been one year since we founded Mentra. We now stand on the precipice of two product releases that will change everything for u...

Even Realities G2 Support Coming on MentraOS

November 15, 2025

Even Realities has launched the Even Realities G2 smart glasses. Compared to the G1, they’re lighter, slimmer, have better battery, have a much bigger...

MemCards: the First Third-Party App to Launch on Mentra Market

August 29, 2025

Software development studio Tomtau has released MemCards on the Mentra Market! That means anyone with MentraOS-compatible smart glasses can download a...

Community Update - Reliability improvements, Mentra Live, Displays

August 22, 2025

Hey everyone! We’ve been going high speed on software, apps, and hardware. This is a quick update about where Mentra is at and where we’re headed. Men...

Announcing MentraOS 2.0 and Our $8M Raise

July 6, 2025

MentraOS 2.0 Launch MentraOS (previously called AugmentOS) is how you get smart glasses apps and how you build smart glasses apps. You can get it now ...

AugmentedChords Goes #1 on Hacker News - Sheet Music App build on MentraOS

May 6, 2025

Kevin Lin came to our first MentraOS hackathon and built a smart glasses app that overlays sheet music on his vision while he plays piano. Then he mad...

MentraOS 1.0 Launch Hackathon - Smart Glasses Hackathon - March 2025

March 4, 2025

From March 1st to 2nd, 2025, we held our first smart glasses hackathon at Mentra headquarters. 20 handpicked cracked hackers came out to Mentra HQ in ...

Why We're Building MentraOS: The Smart Glasses Operating System

February 20, 2025

Why we're building the open-source smart glasses operating system. MentraOS enables users to access any app on their smart glasses, allow developers to build smart glasses apps, and allow smart glasses hardware companies to run the best software on their glasses.