The AI Pin is here 🚨 Here's what you need to know [with video]
✨ Very promising! Gen AI on the go. This was just announced, created by Humane. A startup that raised $230 million in funding (investors include OpenAI's CEO).
✨ This represents a new way of interacting with AI, beyond UIs, beyond screens. It projects information on surfaces, for example as your palm, and you can directly interact with it on the surface.
✨ The interaction model seems really intuitive (no controllers or anything, just speech and finger/hand gestures).
✨ This is just a clip-on. We have actually seen this form factor before. Do you remember Google Clips? It was a (discontinued) miniature clip-on camera device. I am guessing that the battery life would be good given that there is no actual screen.
This is discontinued but you can still buy it!
✨ It also takes photos, and they are accessible by a web interface.
✨ It is being positioned as more than a tech gadget, as models during Paris Fashion Week were wearing it on their outfits. Orders begin 11/16, with over 100k people on the waitlist.
My thoughts:
➜ I keep saying that AI is not product. Is an AI Pin a product? It depends on the use cases it solves. I particularly like navigation that fits the whole 'on the go' positioning (finding your way around/navigation). Calling feels a bit awkward, which is why I don't use calling on my watch - but I do love calling on my Meta glasses as the call feels private.
My Rayban / Meta smartglasses:
And the sunglasses
➜ I am curious to see users' response to this new form factor. Last time I was so excited about a new form factor was when the Oura ring first got launched, and to this day I absolutely love mine.
More information here:
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https://hu.ma.ne/