Smart Glasses for OnlyFans Have Another Interesting Idea

Smart glasses for live-streaming OnlyFans might sound like a gimmick, but they could have more to offer than a novel way to broadcast porn.

In a new demo video, the makers of the Mentra Live, a pair of smart glasses that—as I’ve covered—notably support OnlyFans streaming, show off an interesting solution to one of the worst parts about most pairs of smart glasses: cloud processing. Instead of sending visual data to the cloud to parse stuff like computer vision (aka using your smart glasses’ camera to answer questions about your surroundings), a new Bluetooth SDK from the company offers a more local approach.

Introducing the Mentra Bluetooth SDK – control smart glasses directly from your Android/iOS app.

Thousands of devs built smart glasses apps. But we heard one common complaint…. the cloud.

So we stripped it out and gave you direct glasses control straight from your phone app. pic.twitter.com/2vjywVxeLi

— cayden 凯登 (@caydengineer) May 20, 2026

In the video above, CEO Cayden Pierce shows how, with a new pipeline, the Mentra Live glasses are able to process a simple computer vision-based query without being connected to the internet. Obviously, I can’t verify that everything is offline to a 100% degree of certainty, but Pierce does appear to turn off both 5G and Wi-Fi live in the demo, which would disconnect one’s phone from any internet access.

This sans-internet process involves a large language model (LLM) running locally, according to Pierce, and differs from the previous pipeline, which had your glasses connect to your phone, then to Mentra’s cloud, and would then beam info back into the Mentra app. This, by the way, is a similar process to what most smart glasses use, including the Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses, which send computer vision-based queries to Meta’s cloud servers.

The query Pierce tests is a bit lame, if I’m being honest (he asks, “What’s the color of this can?”), but it’s meant more as a showcase of the types of direct-to-phone apps devs could build for Mentra Live than a finished product. Even if it’s just a preview, it’s a potentially compelling one.

Having used cloud processing on smart glasses quite a few times at this point, it tends to be a pain point. It relies on connectivity, meaning, if you’re on the go, it’s only as good as your LTE. Also, there are inherent privacy concerns with sending data to a server where it can be stored, used for training, and all kinds of icky stuff.

Whether developers will adopt Mentra’s SDK or whether other smart glasses companies will integrate the approach is a whole different question entirely, but it’s nice to see there is a better, non-cloud way, to do things, even if it’s just a preview.