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One of Monako Glass's standout features is its bone conduction mic. The "industry standard" name for it is VPU, short for Voice Pickup. Keep this in mind if you ever need to work with accoustic engineers! This week we finalized our mic array design: 1 VPU + 3 accoustic mics. This allows Monako Glass to perform hardware backed speaker diarization!
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Just watched General Magic: How a small team of engineers and dreamers laid the foundation for iPod (@tfadell ), Android, iPhone, Apple Watch, and the entire mobile internet age back in the 1990s.
What struck me most is how familiar their ambition feels: defining a next-generation computer, smaller and more personal than anything people had seen before. They got so much right — the vision, the people, the ideas. They were just a decade and a half too early.
Building Monako, I keep thinking about that.
Sometimes the difference between a crazy idea and an inevitable one is simply timing.
youtube.com/watch?v=JQymn5fl…
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All smart rings in the market prioritize battery life over realtime interactivity. We've finally found a supplier that's willing to give us access to the firmware! Now we can stream out all health, accelerometer, and touch sensor data at 10hz. This will enable a new class of ring UX on Monako. Stay tuned!
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🎙️ Monako Community AMA — August 29
Hello, Monako friends! welcome to join us for our next AMA as we share the latest updates from Monako, answer your questions, and talk about what’s coming next.
đź—“ **Saturday, August 29**
đź‡đꇰ HK — 22:00
🇯🇵 Tokyo — 23:00
🇺🇸 New York — 10:00
🇺🇸 San Francisco — 07:00
🇧🇷 São Paulo — 11:00
🇬🇧 London — 15:00
🇪🇺 Paris / Berlin — 16:00
📍 Live on Discord
And from now on, Monako AMA will happen on the last Saturday of every month.
Bring your questions. See you there. đź‘“
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Smart Glasses Become Real Computers
@MonakoResearch, thanks for sharing
Don't miss out on the latest AI advancements! Sign up here to stay informed! intelligentworld.org/discove…
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Monako friends! đź‘‹
We’re hosting a live AMA on Discord on July 26, from 00:00–02:00 HKT. Come hang out with the Monako team, ask us anything, and hear our latest updates!
🌍 Your local time:
đź‡đꇰ Hong Kong: July 26, 00:00–02:00 HKT
🇬🇧 UK: July 25, 17:00–19:00 BST
🇪🇺 Central Europe: July 25, 18:00–20:00 CEST
🇺🇸 US East Coast: July 25, 12:00–14:00 EDT
🇺🇸 US West Coast: July 25, 09:00–11:00 PDT
🇧🇷 Brazil: July 25, 13:00–15:00 BRT
🇮🇳 India: July 25, 21:30–23:30 IST
🇯🇵 Japan: July 26, 01:00–03:00 JST
🇿🇦 South Africa: July 25, 18:00–20:00 SAST
See you on Discord! đź’™
🤖 Made with AI
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Replying to @candyyueliu @Qualcomm
Here's a video of hand tracking working on the AR1's Hexagon NPU
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Most smart glasses failed for one reason: they acted like accessories, not computers.
The next generation has to change that.
Here's how @MonakoResearch just did it…
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Robert is super inspiring! So glad to see that there are people like him that hold such enthusiasm for XR. As tech progresses, waveguide AI glasses, birdbath XR glasses, and VR headsets, will ultimately merge into the same product category. @Scobleizer is using his platform to keep the XR dream alive until tech becomes ready!
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Snap intentionally looks the way it does so that they can squeeze in as much tech as possible. The big story here is 51° FOV waveguides, which is equivalent to a 24 inch monitor at arms length distance. In 2 years, 51° will become industry standard, and in 5 years, 70° will enter the market. In the long run, birdbath optics used in Viture and Xreal are NGMI.
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Monako Glass: AI Meets Wearables
Chinese startup Monako has unveiled AI‑powered smart glasses that integrate Claude Code and Codex, signalling a bold new push toward wearable computing for developers.
Read More: ciol.com/news/monako-glass-b…
#CIOL
@OpenAI | @MonakoResearch
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Introducing Monako Glass đź‘“
The world's first wearable Linux computer in glasses form.
Run Claude Code, Codex, and any coding agent — anywhere.
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Replying to @MonakoResearch
@MonakoResearch looks promising
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Monako Glass is a Linux computer in glasses form. Run your coding agents on the go. Full announcement video coming soon!
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Our vision for Wearable AI Agent is that it is an audiovisual experience. Meet Mono. Does she remind you of someone? :)
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Vibe coding will never be the same again!
Now your Claude Code is literally sitting in your chair looking at your screen :)
#Monako #AICoding #AIGlasses #ARGlass #BuildingInPublic #DevTools #VibeCoding #CreativeTools #Productivity
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Absolutely correct. Shenzhen does for hardware what AI does for software: it completely erases the barrier to entry. We went from a handmade prototype to a fully functional, beautifully machined pre-production unit with professionally engineered electronics in 6 months.
72 hours after YC demo day, I moved to Shenzhen for 8 weeks đź¤
I'm headed back to SF with new hardware in hand (sharing more soon), but some takeaways documented below:
> If you have even the slightest ambition to found a hardware company, visit SZ. Pre-raise, pre-team, pre-idea, pre-job departure, it doesn't matter. Just go.
> Plan your visit according to a major conference that interests you. Use that conference as a supplier meeting springboard - that's your ticket to any factory under the sun.
> At the factories, ask about lead times, don't ask about cost (wait on this). Your iteration rate is driven by the lead time on the longest lead time item in your assembly. It pays to identify these parts early to build project timelines.
> Visit Huaqiangbei (read: this is a mini-city, not a building). Robotic subassemblies, batteries, chassis's, electronic parts. They all have buildings where vendors are tightly clustered. Plan to spend 4-6 hours walking around before you find exactly what you're interested in.
> Business relationships are valuable commodities. Treat them as such. Pay attention to people, learn about them. Bring thoughtful gifts. Wait for them to sit first. With Baiju, fill the glass but with tea leave some room. Cultural customs are fun to learn, but also convey a seriousness towards the working relationship.
> Suppliers fit cleanly into discrete buckets. Level of complexity and execution on past projects indicates what is in scope for them. Trivial, but important to level your build expectations. It is easy to design a part with 12 subsequent manufacturing processes, exceptionally hard to find a supplier to fill this order.
If you need coffeeshop recs, food recs, or hotel recs I have a few.
Move to Shenzhen! Get to building!

















