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Title: Harvard Dropouts To Launch 'Always On' AI Smart Glasses That Listen,
Record Every Conversation

Link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/08/20/...

Two Harvard dropouts are launching Halo X, a $249 pair of AI-powered smart
glasses that continuously listen, record, and transcribe conversations while
displaying real-time information to the wearer. "Our goal is to make glasses
that make you super intelligent the moment you put them on," said AnhPhu
Nguyen, co-founder of Halo. Co-founder Caine Ardayfio said the glasses "give
you infinite memory." "The AI listens to every conversation you have and uses
that knowledge to tell you what to say ... kinda like IRL Cluely," Ardayfio
told TechCrunch. "If somebody says a complex word or asks you a question,
like, 'What's 37 to the third power?' or something like that, then it'll pop
up on the glasses." From the report: Ardayfio and Nguyen have raised $1
million to develop the glasses, led by Pillar VC, with support from Soma
Capital, Village Global, and Morningside Venture. The glasses will be priced
at $249 and will be available for preorder starting Wednesday. Ardayfio
called the glasses "the first real step towards vibe thinking." The two Ivy
League dropouts, who have since moved into their own version of the Hacker
Hostel in the San Francisco Bay Area, recently caused a stir after developing
a facial-recognition app for Meta's smart Ray-Ban glasses to prove that the
tech could be used to dox people. As a potential early competitor to Meta's
smart glasses, Ardayfio said Meta, given its history of security and privacy
scandals, had to rein in its product in ways that Halo can ultimately
capitalize on. [...] For now, Halo X glasses only have a display and a
microphone, but no camera, although the two are exploring the possibility of
adding it to a future model. Users still need to have their smartphones handy
to help power the glasses and get "real time info prompts and answers to
questions," per Nguyen. The glasses, which are manufactured by another
company that the startup didn't name, are tethered to an accompanying app on
the owner's phone, where the glasses essentially outsource the computing
since they don't have enough power to do it on the device itself. Under the
hood, the smart glasses use Google's Gemini and Perplexity as its chatbot
engine, according to the two co-founders. Gemini is better for math and
reasoning, whereas they use Perplexity to scrape the internet, they said.

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