At the bench
Identify a part without putting it down or reaching for your phone with greasy hands.
concept model · rev B · Oct 2026
AI smart glasses · concept rev B
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
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.
Display · seen from the front
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
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
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 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 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
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
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.
Pro · binocular · wearer's view
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.
Explorer · live model
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
Look, ask, and read the answer in the lens. These are the replies the display shows in the 3D model.
Identify a part without putting it down or reaching for your phone with greasy hands.
Check a number while both hands stay on the work.
Read and translate a sign, label or menu from where you are standing.
How it works
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.
Privacy
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 →Fit
About
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.
Planning, cost modeling and software prototyping on existing dev glasses. Rev B is an industrial design pass, not a manufacturing drawing.
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.
An EMG wristband is planned as a second way to control the glasses, alongside the touch strip and the optional ring.