Wearables specialist Sensible Labs is diving head-first into the period of enormous language model-powered synthetic intelligence (AI) with Halo, the follow-up to the corporate’s Body sensible glasses.
“Halo [is] a radically redefined and recent pair of light-weight glasses embedded with main updates to its AI agent, Noa,” Sensible Labs claims of the gadget. “Halo’s design is indistinguishable from a pair of glasses, however dig deeper and you may uncover a groundbreaking toolkit of options. This features a collection of business firsts, together with a revolutionary real-time conversational interface; long-term agentic reminiscence system referred to as Narrative; and a pioneering vibe coding assistant referred to as Vibe Mode, purpose-built to generate customized functions for AI glasses with solely pure language enter.”
Goodbye, Body; hiya, Halo. Sensible Labs has formally launched its second-generation AI-backed wearable platform. (📷: Sensible Labs)
That is removed from the primary wearable Sensible Labs, based in 2019 by former Apple program lead Bobak Tavangar and Ben Heald, has designed. Again in February 2023 the corporate unveiled Monocle, an open-source gadget designed to carry augmented actuality to a person’s current glasses as a clip-on accent. A 12 months later the corporate introduced Body, a fully-featured pair of sensible glasses designed to tie its wearer in to well-liked massive language mannequin platforms together with OpenAI and Perplexity.
Halo is nearer to the latter than the previous, however takes the idea significantly additional. It is person expertise is centered round a conversational assistant system dubbed Noa, able to taking visible and auditory enter and offering contextually-relevant data in real-time — although with the standard caveat that the massive language fashions for which Noa acts as an interface don’t reply with solutions however with streams of continuation tokens that kind an answer-shape, however which can be completely divorced from actuality, a elementary flaw in how the know-how works.
The brand new Noa additionally provides a “Vibe Mode,” described by Sensible Labs as “an experimental new function” impressed by the recognition of “vibe coding” with LLMs. With this, the corporate says, customers can be ready instruct Noa to construct customized functions for the glasses utilizing voice instructions. “For instance, should you’re a developer with an concept for a greater maps utility for AI glasses which is healthier suited to the way you navigate cities,” the the corporate claims, “you possibly can immediate Noa, which is able to immediately question its AI coding agent to construct, show, and run your customized Halo utility proper earlier than your eyes.”
On the {hardware} entrance, Halo is designed round what Sensible Labs calls the “Halo Show” — a 0.2″ full-color micro-OLED panel that initiatives “a retro arcade-style” person interface into the person’s imaginative and prescient. The wearable’s design features a digital camera sensor with “a novel imaging and compression method optimized for AI,” which the corporate claims helps drive a 14-hour battery life per cost, which feeds into the on-board Alif Semiconductor B1 system-on-chip driving the whole lot. The glasses additionally embody an inertial measurement unit (IMU), microphone array, and bone-conduction audio system on the suggestions of the arms.
The glasses use a 0.2″ colour micro-OLED show to beam data to the person as a “retro arcade-style UI.” (📷: Sensible Labs)
Visible and auditory enter captured by the Halo glasses, in the meantime, can be mined for data by means of what the corporate claims to be a “patent-pending agentic reminiscence system” — which “analyzes the context of your life and builds a personal and customized information base.” This, on the face of it, sounds relatively invasive, which is why Sensible Labs is touting a means of safety for private knowledge.
“Within the curiosity of its open-source values and safeguarding person privateness,” the corporate says, “all wealthy media required for Noa together with visible and auditory inputs captured by Halo are instantly transformed into an irreversible mathematical illustration. No wealthy media is saved. Moreover, no third celebration can view buyer knowledge, guaranteeing that your private experiences stay yours, and yours alone.”
Halo is on the market to pre-order on the Sensible Labs retailer at $299, initially solely in a matte black end, with gadgets anticipated to start delivery in November; Sensible Labs has additionally introduced a partnership with SmartBuyGlasses to offer prescription lenses for individuals who want them.
