Rokid Glasses get YouTube through an unofficial patcher that takes about seven minutes – MIXED Reality News

Rokid Glasses get YouTube through an unofficial patcher that takes about seven minutes  MIXED Reality News

Rokid Nexus 1.6.0 and Patcher 1.0.0 shipped on October 7, adding a guided MicroG and patched-YouTube install the project says takes six to seven minutes. Rokid Glasses have an unofficial app platform, and as of October 7 it will walk an owner through getting YouTube onto them, a job the project says takes about six to seven minutes of patching. Rokid Nexus 1.6.0 and a companion plugin called Patcher 1.0.0 were published two minutes apart, at 15:49 and 15:51 UTC, on the project's releases page, read at 22:06 UTC the same day. Snap-on prescription lenses for Rokid Glasses. The Nexus platform targets the RV101 model. Image: Mixed News media library Nexus is not a Rokid product and has no Rokid involvement.

It is an Apache-2.0 project started on July 6, carrying 19 stars at the time of that read, and it describes itself as "a plugin platform for Rokid Glasses RV101". The design is unusual: "one permanent hub lives on the glasses and renders everything; all features ship as ordinary Android APKs on the phone", so a plugin needs no separate install on the glasses at all. The tagline is "Install a phone app, get a glasses app". The repository ships 13 plugins of its own, covering an assistant, phone messages, turn-by-turn navigation pulled from Google Maps or Citymapper, camera