🎨Our work on Halo’s hardware required intentionality and restraint, clarity of purpose, and intensive design across every level of the stack.
🙄You may have noticed that nearly every other pair of smart glasses coming to market is following a predictable path.
But we are thinking different: these devices are not for social media capture or watching YouTube videos. Instead, they should exist to perform all-day AI inference for deep personalization and memory enhancement while still looking like a beautiful pair of glasses.
🎯So with this clarity of intention we set about designing Halo’s hardware system.
While keeping a full color display and camera, we introduced an additional microphone and two speakers — all wired into a low-power AI processor.
By eschewing bulky or expensive optics, over-powered processors, WiFi, and hefty image sensors geared more for social media capture than focused AI inference, we accomplished a hardware design made for all-day wearability, memory capture, and multimodal agent interactions.
(check out an example below 👇)
⛩️These architectural decisions allowed us to enrich the customer experience and broaden the value proposition to developers while lowering the price point and multiplying battery life — all within the constraints of Halo’s deceptively inevitable industrial design.
🧑🏼🎨We believe these devices need to feel beautiful and unobtrusive while enabling tremendous creativity and intelligence.
😇Halo is a milestone for us as we double down on the open source movement ushering in the next age of intelligent computing.