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Lumina Labs: The Company You Need to Know About This Month
The Central Coast firm ships camera-free smart glasses that overlay task lists and meeting notes directly into a user's field of view.
How we reported this
Lumina Labs began shipping its FocusFrame glasses on July 10 from a warehouse at 875 Harbor Way in the Portside neighborhood.
Central Coast companies continue to expand hybrid offices even as national remote-work trends stabilize, pushing demand for tools that cut screen time without adding recording hardware.
Headquarters and incubator links
Lumina Labs keeps its engineering team at 1200 Seaside Boulevard inside the Innovation District, two blocks from the Central Coast Tech Incubator at 450 Oak Street. The firm ran three pilot programs with staff from Bayview analytics companies last spring, testing the glasses during daily stand-ups and site visits along Pacific Promenade.
One program paired FocusFrame units with the incubator's July accelerator cohort, which accepted twelve startups this year. Participants reported fewer laptop switches during client calls held at the district's shared conference rooms.
Numbers behind the rollout
Pre-orders reached 2,400 units by July 8, according to internal figures shared with the incubator. Each pair sells for $399 and includes a twelve-month app license. The glasses weigh 48 grams and run eight hours on a single charge, with replacement lenses available for $45 at the company's Portside pickup counter.
Local adoption tracks a 27 percent rise in productivity-software spending reported by Central Coast Ventures in its second-quarter survey of 180 firms, released June 28.
Workers can reserve a fifteen-minute demo at the Pacific Tech Center on July 22. The session covers setup on existing calendars and task apps already used by most downtown employers.