"As I wrote last week, I'm rapidly running out of body parts to do my job. Part of being human is knowing when to ask for help, so a few months ago, I enlisted senior editor Sean Hollister - a fellow smart glasses nerd - to help me test Halo Glass, an always-listening AI companion that lives inside a pair of glasses."
"Halo is the brainchild of two former Harvard students who made headlines last year after they rigged a pair of Ray-Ban Metas to dox strangers in real time. In August, AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio announced they were making a pair of always-on AI glasses that could listen to, record, transcribe, and then organically feed you the answers to questions relevant to your real-time conversations."
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Halo Glass are always-listening AI spectacles designed to listen, record, transcribe, and surface answers relevant to live conversations. The product was developed by two former Harvard students who previously modified smart glasses to identify strangers, drawing attention for privacy risks. Halo aims to blend features of memory-assist wearables and discreet heads-up information, offering answers inside a glasses display rather than on pins or wristbands. Testing revealed practical utility alongside real-world drawbacks, including physical discomfort and social friction from partners. The device raises clear ethical and privacy questions about recording others and using AI as a conversational aide.
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