Road to Halo | Part 3 of 4

🎨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.

Pre-order now! Halo is retailing directly from our website at $299 (before taxes and shipping) and will start shipping before the holidays in November 2025 — first come, first served.
All those who preorder will have free beta access to Noa Plus: the cutting edge of realtime dialogue and AI memory!

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