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Who is building this  /  and what it actually is

Putting a screen on your face
is the easy part.
Reading your body from it is not.

Every other frame on the market is a display looking out. Theora is a sensor looking in, which is the harder half: holding a clean pulse against bone, all day, on a face that moves and sweats and talks. That is not a first attempt.

Theora Lite in profile, THEORA on the temple
~20 years
Of wearable optics on this team
Shipped before
AR hardware taken to production
Endowed optics chair
Our advisor · the retina camera is from that lab
~100 units
Alpha units shipped, most of them paid for

The frame is still in development. Our team has already shipped about 100 earlier alpha units.

Health  /  the reason it exists

You wake up already
knowing.

Play it. The panel follows the film, every reading that appears in his lens, and why it appeared at all. Jump between moments with the markers.

And this is the night it scored.

The whole eight hours, from a sensor that never left your face. Drag across it.

The whole health story →

Ambient  /  eyes and ears

It sees what you see.
It hears what you hear.

A camera and five microphones capture everyday context. FERAL turns it into timely help, shown through the lens.

01

What you were looking at

The shelf you were standing in front of when you said you were out of it. The label on the bottle. The receipt you never photographed, because you did not have to.

02

What you were told

The date somebody gave you in a corridor. The name of the person who introduced themselves while your hands were full. The address said once, quickly, in a car.

03

Where it happened

Context attached to a place rather than a time, so a reminder can surface at the door of the shop instead of at nine on a Tuesday when it is no use to anyone.

04

And then it acts on it

This is where FERAL takes over: the calendar entry you did not type, the note filed against the right person, the message drafted before you have sat down.

One camera
Eye-level capture
Five-mic array
Speech across a room
Waveguide HUD
Monochrome, single eye
On your devices
FERAL runs locally by default

FERAL runs locally by default. Your data is not sold or used to train models. Its code is public on GitHub.

The agentic side  /  explore it yourself

It does not show you numbers.
It does something about them.

Five moments from a single Tuesday. Every glowing point is something Theora noticed on its own, click one to see what appeared in the lens, and what it did about it.

Move across the frame · click what glows
07:1214°96%

Playing by itself. Move your cursor across the frame to take over, hover to find a point, click to open it.

Bedroom 07:12

Nothing selected yet. Click one of the glowing points on the left to see what Theora put in front of your eye, and the action it took without being asked.

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FERAL  /  the brain behind the glasses

The glasses are the sensor.
FERAL is what makes them
worth wearing.

Without it these are a camera and a pulse reader. FERAL is the private, local-first agent that turns those signals into something that acts, and the longer you wear the glasses, the better it gets. Step around the loop.

Founding Access is cloud-first. The local-agent direction below is not a promise that these features work on allocated glasses without cloud. We will confirm supported functions and device requirements before allocation acceptance.

It runs on your phone, not ours

Local-first by design. Your body data and everything the agent remembers stay on your own devices. Nothing is uploaded by default, nothing is sold, and there is no advertising model on the other end of it.

You can read the code

FERAL is open source under Apache 2.0, public on GitHub. A privacy promise you can check is worth more than one you have to believe.

Every action is gated by policy

It can suggest moving your calendar, ordering your regular, or calling someone. It never does any of it without your say-so, and you set the boundaries once rather than approving forever.

Every sensor is a node

New capabilities register over one protocol instead of forcing a rebuild. That is how the retina and blood-pressure work reaches you later without replacing what you already own.

Look around  /  Folsom & Main, San Francisco

Stand in a real street
and look for yourself.

A full 360° viewer, right here. Drag to turn your head, and every readout stays pinned to the thing that earned it. Press Full screen to fill the display.

A plaza in San Francisco. Drag to turn your head. Every readout is pinned to a real thing in it, and slides out of view when you look away, exactly as it would through the lens.

Loading Loading…
09:2114°91%
N 0°

Click any point below and it turns to face it. Or drag to look around and click the rings yourself.

Look around and click one of the glowing points. Each one is something Theora noticed by itself, with the reason it appeared and what FERAL wrote down or pulled back out.

0 / 3 herePoint 1 of 3

Every readout is anchored to something

Readouts follow their context: a stair reminder on the staircase, a meeting at the right door, a sound level beside its source.

Explore the scene

Explore a real plaza with an illustrative display overlay. Drag to look around; select a marker to see what it means.

First look  /  a film we have not finished showing you

He was working.
It told him to call his son.

A father at his desk. A reading that did not look right. One line in his vision at the moment it mattered, and he did not open an app, check a dashboard, or go looking for it.

The rest of the film

You have seen the first nine seconds.

The whole thing comes with our next announcement. Explore Founding Access and be there from the beginning.

Nothing here needed a phone

The prompt arrived where he was already looking, and acting on it was two words. That is the difference between a device that reports and one that does something.

This is what agentic actually means

Not a chatbot on your face. Something that has watched long enough to know what normal looks like for the people you care about, notices when it slips, and does the one useful thing about it.

Questions

The things people ask before joining.

Something we have not covered? Email info@theora.io.

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THEORA PRO What comes after Lite · not this round

The second
Theora is a system.

Future research explores retinal imaging, wrist sensing and behind-ear signals through one runtime. These are research directions, not included Founding Access features.

Nothing on this page is available to buy, and nothing on this page describes Theora Lite. Lite is a general wellness product. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

THEORA OSone runtime
Why it is worth a regulatory path

The screening already exists. Almost nobody goes.

95% of severe vision loss is preventable with early detection. The retina shows it first.
1.4B adults live with hypertension. It contributes to roughly 10.4 million deaths a year.
65M live with epilepsy, and the eye carries signal that nothing on the market reads.

The screening for all of this already exists and is well understood. Almost nobody goes. That is the entire opportunity, and it is why Pro is worth the years a clearance takes.

The hardware

Three pieces, one agent.

Three pieces of hardware, one runtime, one agent reading all of them. What follows is what each is for and how far along it is, stated plainly, because a roadmap is worth more than a promise.

01  /  the frames
Theora Pro

Full-color waveguide optics, and a near-infrared camera pointed the other way, at the retina, the one place in the body where blood vessels can be watched without cutting. The camera it depends on is built in the Rochester lab our optics advisor runs.

Retinal imaging is a research direction for Pro. It is not an available diagnostic feature of Founding Access.

Future integrations could bring compatible continuous glucose monitor data into Theora. The glasses would not measure glucose.

In developmentPrecedent · IDx-DR, AEYE-DSPairs with an existing CGM
830Mliving with diabetes
Theora frames in silhouette, rim lit
02  /  the band
The wristband

Continuous cuffless pressure and an ECG lead at the wrist, paired to the frames so one agent reads the eye and the artery together rather than two apps reading neither. Shown here as a shadow, because it is not announced.

UnannouncedPrecedent · Aktiia, cleared in Europe
1.4Badults with hypertension
The wristband in silhouette, rim lit
03  /  the node
The ear node

An early research concept: a sensor behind the ear for brain signals. It is not a confirmed product feature.

ResearchNo timeline claimed
65Mliving with epilepsy
A head in profile wearing the frames, with the node sitting behind the ear
Why it is not a second pair of glasses

Every sensor is a node.

A shared protocol is designed to let new sensor modules connect to the existing runtime.

Up to 95% of severe vision loss is preventable with early detection. Hypertension contributes to roughly 10.4 million deaths a year. The screening for both already exists and is well understood. Almost nobody goes.

The path

Lite ships first. Everything else lands on it.

Research proceeds in stages. Module availability depends on development, validation and any required clearance; dates are not confirmed.

  1. Now · months 0-6
    Design freeze and EVT build
    Sensor validation on Theora Lite hardware, and the platform every later module plugs into.
  2. Months 7-12
    Lite ships, feasibility starts
    The retina module and cuffless blood pressure move into feasibility alongside the launch.
  3. Months 13-24
    Into the clinic
    Retina enters an IRB study. An FDA Q-sub, module by module, and a 510(k) in preparation.
  4. After that
    Cleared modules, frames already on faces
    Every clearance ships to an install base that is already there. Nothing new to buy, and no new customer to acquire.
Pro is later.
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