Rune Lite

concept model · rev B · Oct 2026

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Overview

AI smart glasses · concept rev B

Justglasses.

A camera, a private in-lens display and Munin, an AI assistant, built into a standard 52 □ 20 – 145 acetate frame. Ask about what you are looking at. The answer appears in the lens, for you only.

Frame · 138 × 45 mm front, 5 mm thick

Same shape as the frame you already own.

The proportions are traced from a classic rectangular acetate reference. Temples are 8 mm tall and 4.4 mm thick at the hinge, tapering toward the ear. Gloss black matches the reference; matte charcoal, warm gray, moss and smoke are the other finishes.

≤ 42 gLite target
≤ 47 gPro target

Display · seen from the front

Look at the lens. There is nothing to see.

The light engine sits in the temple just behind the hinge and feeds the lens through its edge. Nothing shows from the front, and the waveguide only emits toward the eye. A monochrome green micro-LED keeps it small and efficient.

Display · seen by the wearer

From behind the lens, the answer is right there.

Text appears in a small window that you size and place in the app, with the distance set there too. Ask what bearing is this and the reply reads 6203-2RS deep groove, 17 × 40 × 12 mm. Use the touch strip to scroll, or double-tap to hide the display for 10 minutes.

Camera · upper rivet, left endpiece

The camera is a rivet.

Frames normally hide hardware in rivet pairs, so the 8 MP camera sits behind a 1.6 mm window in one of them. Snapshots go over Bluetooth. Video mode samples frames over Wi-Fi Direct.

Privacy LED · upper rivet, right endpiece

The matching rivet shows when it is on.

The LED is wired to camera power, so it lights whenever the camera does. Software cannot turn it off. The two lower rivets are microphone ports.

X-ray · everything lives in the temples

The electronics fit in an 8 mm temple.

The right temple holds the main board (SoC, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.3, power management) and the touch strip. The left holds the sensor board and capture button. Each carries a slim cell of about 65 mAh, and the charging case tops them up.

Exploded · 14 parts

Fourteen parts, one pair of glasses.

From the spring hinges with a hollow barrel for the flex cable, to the magnetic contacts under the bridge that meet the case. The explorer at the end of this page opens every one of them.

Lite · monocular · wearer's view

Lite puts the display in one eye.

This is the view from behind the lenses. Lite has one display, in the right lens. It also has the camera, microphones and touch strip, with clear Rx-ready lenses.

$249plus Munin plan
≤ 42 gtarget weight

Pro · binocular · wearer's view

Pro adds the second eye, audio and shade.

Same view, and now the answer appears in both lenses, with adjustable depth. Pro also adds bone-conduction audio ahead of each ear and photochromic lenses that darken in sun.

$399 – 449plus Munin plan
≤ 47 gtarget weight

Explorer · live model

Now take it apart yourself.

Orbit the frame, click any part, and change finish or model with the controls below. The full spec and parts list is on the right.

Use it for

Ask about what is in front of you.

Look, ask, and read the answer in the lens. These are the replies the display shows in the 3D model.

▸ what bearing is this?6203-2RS deep groove17 × 40 × 12 mm · sealed

At the bench

Identify a part without putting it down or reaching for your phone with greasy hands.

▸ torque, M6 into aluminium?8–10 N·mblue threadlocker · cross pattern

Mid-build

Check a number while both hands stay on the work.

▸ read that signEMERGENCY EXITSpanish: "Salida de emergencia"

Somewhere new

Read and translate a sign, label or menu from where you are standing.

How it works

The glasses capture. Your phone thinks.

The frame carries only what has to be on your face: camera, microphones, a radio and a display. The AI runs in the phone app, so the glasses stay light and the model can improve without new hardware.

Glasses camera · mics · radio lens display Phone app sends, receives runs local model Frontier AI needs internet Local model offline fallback Bluetooth 5.3 Wi-Fi Direct no router
  1. CapturePress the temple button or tap the strip. A still goes over Bluetooth. Long press starts video mode, which samples frames over Wi-Fi Direct.
  2. AskThe phone adds your spoken question and sends both to a frontier model. With no connection it falls back to a local model.
  3. ReadThe answer lands in the lens window, with optional bone-conduction audio on Pro. Control it from the touch strip, or an optional ring.

Privacy

Privacy you can see.

Camera glasses have to earn the trust of the people around you as well as yours. The important parts are in the hardware, not a settings menu.

How Rune handles privacy →
  • A light that can't be switched off

  • A display only you can read

  • Capture only when you ask

  • Glasses talk only to your phone

Fit

Check your fit with glasses you already own.

  1. Look on the inside of a temple arm of glasses you own. Most frames print three numbers there.
  2. Compare them with Rune. Frames within a couple of millimetres usually fit about the same.
  3. Lenses are Rx-ready, so your prescription can go in.
52lens, mm
□ 20bridge, mm
145temple, mm

Lineup

Two models, one frame.

Lite $249 + Munin plan

Display in the right eye, camera, microphones and touch strip. Clear, Rx-ready lenses.

Pro $399 – 449 + Munin plan

Displays in both eyes with adjustable depth, bone-conduction audio and photochromic lenses.

See the full lineup and specs →

About

Made for people building their own things.

Rune is for people working on independent personal and professional projects, who need answers about what is in front of them without stopping to pull out a phone. The project is at concept stage, and the open questions are listed here.

Now

Planning, cost modeling and software prototyping on existing dev glasses. Rev B is an industrial design pass, not a manufacturing drawing.

Open trade-off

Normal-width temples cut battery volume roughly in half versus rev A, from about 160 mAh per side to about 65. Runtime will lean on case top-ups and still needs checking against the display and Wi-Fi Direct power budget.

Gen 2

An EMG wristband is planned as a second way to control the glasses, alongside the touch strip and the optional ring.