Meet Frame: The AR Glasses That Give You AI Super Powers
Last week, Brilliant Labs announced its new product, Frame, a pair of lightweight AR glasses powered by a multimodal AI assistant called Noa.
The tech market is full of Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality glasses like Apple’s Vision Pro and Meta’s Quest 3, which is why Frame stands out. These glasses look like glasses, not oversized ski goggles. Frame is a very different product that wants to keep you in the world rather than shut you off inside a virtual world. Frame’s AR glasses use a camera and speech to interact with the world around you.
Users can ask Noa, the AI assistant, questions, and the answers, once generated, are projected as text onto the lenses. In addition to voice commands, Noa can process visual images, generate images, and perform language translation. Noa uses Perplexity’s AI conversational search engine, Stability AI’s text-to-image model Stable Diffusion, OpenAI’s latest text-generation model GPT4, and the speech recognition system Whisper.
Frame’s lenses have a resolution of 640 x 400 for displaying text and photos. They come in three colors: black, white, or transparent, and are compatible with prescription…
