Monako Glass is a pair of 48-gram 🏷️#smart-glasses built to run AI coding agents from a heads-up display, made by Monako, a Chinese startup founded by Candy Yue. Launched into an invite-only developer preview of 500 users in June 2026, the proprietary hardware runs agents like 📝Claude Code and 📝Codex through built-in connectors; reservations opened at $19 while full pricing and shipping dates remain unannounced.
Monako positions the device as a wearable terminal for supervising agent-driven work across the glasses, cloud sandboxes, and a local machine — not a laptop replacement. The company reportedly raised $15 million in seed funding to build the hardware, developer tools, and an app marketplace for agents. The frame fits a waveguide display, camera, speakers, and a bone-conduction microphone into a sunglasses-weight body, and launch coverage framed it as beating Apple and Meta to coding-capable glasses; its Vision Engine gesture system is openly inspired by Apple's 📝Vision Pro. Connectors for Unreal Engine, 📝Blender, and After Effects extend the workstation beyond code for its target users — developers, researchers, and AI power users.
Key Features
- MonoOS — Linux-based operating system with a Lua application layer and an embedded Rive animation runtime, running locally on the glasses rather than depending on a cloud backend.
- Vision Engine — gesture system that translates micro gestures into precise digital commands for hands-free control of agents and applications.
- Bone-conduction microphone — captures speech through nasal-bone vibrations at the bridge, isolating voice commands from environmental noise.
- Agent connectors — integrations for Claude Code, Codex, Unreal Engine, Blender, and After Effects unify separate tools into a single wearable workstation.
- 48-gram frame — waveguide display, camera, and speakers at the weight of standard sunglasses, balanced toward the rear arms for all-day wear.