Indian Startup QWR Unveils AI-Powered Smart Glasses Humbl

Query What’s Actual (QWR), an Indian deep-tech startup, introduced Humbl, a man-made intelligence (AI)-powered sensible glasses, on Thursday. The startup claims that Humbl is the primary made in India AI sensible glasses, and affords options just like the Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses. The glasses are stated to return outfitted with an AI assistant that may report movies, summarise conversations, play music, assist with navigation, and extra. The startup plans to formally launch the glasses later this month, and claims to begin transport the machine later this yr.

QWR Unveils AI-Powered Sensible Glasses

In a press launch, the deep-tech startup unveiled its newest product and stated that Humbl is concentrated in the direction of utility, discretion, and contextual consciousness. The corporate didn’t share lots of particulars concerning the machine, however based mostly on its options and look, it’s fairly just like the Ray-Ban Meta.

Humbl may be worn as easy sun shades, however its actual usability is when the AI assistant is activated with the wake phrase “Hey Humbl.” As soon as awake, it may possibly report point-of-view movies based mostly on voice instructions. It could additionally summarise conferences and conversations, set reminders, present instructions to a spot, and play music fully hands-free and with voice inputs. Moreover, the AI assistant may present real-time translations.

The corporate highlighted that the AI assistant within the sensible glasses can gather and course of information coming from audio and video channels. The machine has cameras that gives it the visible feed, utilizing which it may possibly recognise objects and landmarks, and know when the consumer is reaching a flip to information them to their vacation spot.

Nevertheless, QWR didn’t point out any {hardware} specs or particulars concerning the giant language mannequin (LLM) that’s powering the AI assistant. Moreover, whereas the machine is predicted to be launched later this month, the startup stated that the machine itself won’t be shipped to consumers until the final quarter of 2025. As of penning this, the startup’s website doesn’t even point out the product, though there are some promotional videos on its social media channels.

QWR was based by Suraj Aiar in 2017, and works within the area of augmented actuality (AR), digital actuality (VR), and prolonged actuality (XR). The startup has manufactured and sells two totally different VR headsets in addition to sensible glasses dubbed Aurl. The latter is an audio-based (built-in audio system) sensible glasses, and doesn’t function video cameras.