Imagine carrying glasses that seem normal, but that inside offer you constant and silent help. The concept sounds intriguing: without touching anything, You can solve doubts instantlyreceive a clear explanation of something that you do not understand or have an automatic translation in the middle of a talk.
A startup called Halofounded by former Harvard students, has created glasses with that idea in mind. And not only that: they promise to endow us with a “superhuman intelligence.” Beyond the marketing strategy, the approach is interesting.
Glasses that listen and respond in real time
Halo X do not resort to cameras to dazzle us, but bet on a different approach. They are designed for Listen to what happens around youtranscribe each conversation and show on an internal screen information that they consider relevant at that time.
They do not wait for them to dislike, but try to anticipate and be useful proactively. In practice, that means that if the name of a car model arises in a talk, they can show a card with key data; If a technical term appears, promise to display a clear definition.
The information operation appears in front of your eyes in less than a second. Even in everyday situations, such as speaking in another language, they should be able to real time and facilitate communication without having to do anything else.
Halo talks about answers around 900 milliseconds for most consultations, while the most complex searches take about two and a half seconds. To achieve this, the glasses rely on two complementary artificial intelligence engines. Geminithe Google model, is responsible for reasoning tasks, while Perplexity It works as a contextual search engine that consults information on the web.
As for the hardware, the halo X bets on the discretion. Incorporate a small type display Waveguide Visible only for the user, microphone and integrated speakers, and dispense with this version.
The autonomy announced is around eight hours of continuous use. Of course, they do not process everything on their own. They depend on a connected mobile phone and an application that acts as an intermediary, where most of the calculation and consultation work really runs.
The great debate point is in privacy. The system records what you listen, transcribes it and, according to the company, eliminates the audio immediately after. Halo ensures that the product will arrive with end -to -end encryption and that is working to obtain the SOC 2 certification, which would imply external audits on data management.
The system records what you listen, transcribes it and, according to the company, eliminates the audio immediately after.
However, they do not include any visible indicator that alerts those around you that they are being recorded, and that raises reasonable doubts. The controversy is not new: the founders They had already experienced with unauthorized facial recognition systems about Meta Ray-Banwhich generated debate about security and improper uses of technology.
At the moment, Halo X are not available in stores. They can be reserved on the official website with a starting price of 249 dollars And, by selecting euros in checkout, today they appear in 223.13 euros. The company has not yet offered a specific date of shipping or confirms whether there will be official distribution in Europe.
It will be necessary to see if the halo X does not end up repeating the recent history of other devices that promised to revolutionize our relationship with artificial intelligence and ended up being sued fiascos. Rabbit R1 and the AI Pin of Humane They aroused enthusiasm in their presentations and arrived with very ambitious speeches, but failed in practice.
Halo’s ambition is on the table and his proposal is as attractive as controversial. It remains to be seen if these glasses They fulfill what they promise or if they will end up swelling the list of inventions that pointed high and stayed on the road.
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