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Do we even know if Humane developed their own laser technology and it's not just an off-the-shelf, or custom-ordered part from another company? The one thing H
by hbn 3y ago
Do we even know if Humane developed their own laser technology and it's not just an off-the-shelf, or custom-ordered part from another company?
The one thing Humane seems to have done good is make a nice piece of hardware with a sleek, Apple-like industrial design. It's functionally a paperweight that can read some LLM hallucinations to you from the convenience of your sagging shirt lapel, but it IS nice-looking and reviewers have said it feels sturdily-made.
Aside from that, it seems like the main things that might have made this thing seem impressive or stand out aren't even developed by them. I haven't seen any indication the laser is anything revolutionary they made themselves, and as much as they'd like to pretend they've developed some crazy AI, it seems to be OpenAI doing all the heavy lifting and everyone and their grandma has been using this technology for over a year now.
- Ductapemaster 3y agoA former colleague of mine works at Humane as an engineer, and the laser tech is apparently closely guarded. They were reluctant to even give a demo when we ran into each other, stating that the laser tech was particularly sensitive topic. I got the sense it was very custom.
- rasz 3y agoYou know who eles secretly guarded demos of magical display tech that turned out to be garbage? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Leap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Leap
- hbn 3y agoAlso the RED Hydrogen One if anyone remembers that
- TiredOfLife 3y agoThe tech used for investors was different to what ended up in the product. There are some videos of Oculus/Meta VR labs that show what a room filled with mirrors, lasers and cameras can demonstrate.
- mikestew 3y ago...stating that the laser tech was particularly sensitive topic. Perhaps it's my jaded view seasoned by the observation of decades of tech bullshit, but that could go one of two ways: 1. The laser tech is full of trade secrets that we dare not reveal just yet. 2. We don't want anyone to find out that we bought these laser things off AliExpress. (Or maybe it's tech you could buy off Amazon ten years ago, who knows? https://www.amazon.com/Brookstone-FBA_mp-796246-Projection-Virtual-Keyboard/dp/B008D6IUG4 https://www.amazon.com/Brookstone-FBA_mp-796246-Projection-V...)
- ericlewis 3y agoI wanted to replicate many parts of the Ai pin and did research into laser projectors. It’s probably a MEMs projector. The cyan color they use is custom, at least. Minifying that tech and making it robust enough to be knocked around on a wearable device is pretty challenging and I couldn’t find anything of a similar size off the shelf. They also run pretty hot and apparently the pin has heat issues (and according to folks at CES (?) using the laser a lot makes it over heat.