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What Jamie wrote
Watch the 11 minute video for this wild device, with way more sensors than I would have expected. The laser display on your hand? 🤯 The device is very well thought out with a variety of capabilities. The battery system is smart to work for as long as you want. I was surprised to see a camera on it but that is critical to give the AI assistant "sight". I love how they are rethinking the entire experience and focusing on an ever present AI assistant.
Will this be successful? I don't know. It is very early and I expect this will feel like a beta product. It also is glaringly obvious how platform advantage will help the existing mobile platforms.
Am I going to get one? No, but I am going to keep an eye on it and how they iterate the device. Certainly has a potential to be the next Google Glass. Very cool experience. The computer vision example looking at food is really interesting.
I was curious what Tyler might think so I watched the video again with him and he was really impressed. He thought the laser display was really cool, and liked how it had so many features built right in.
This is pretty close to a Star Trek communicator on your chest. The TNG nerd in me wants to get one just to tap my chest like Jean-Luc Picard would.
Om Malik wrote about it as the Real Personal Computer. This part of the article resonated with me:
The way I see it, the evolution of apps to “experiences” means that we are seeing the end of the line for the App Store as we know it. “It’s not about declaring app stores obsolete; it’s about moving forward because we have the capability for new ways,” Chaudhri argued. Humane’s idea is to make these workflows (aka apps in smartphone terms) available to us through its myriad interfaces — primarily voice.
And I buy this future! Why? Because I have seen the shift before.
When the iPhone launched, there wasn’t a shortage of skeptics about the notion of a touch screen as an interface. I can still remember the hue-and-cry over a virtual keyboard. Fifteen years later, no one even flinches at the obviousness of a smartphone. In a few years — voice (thanks to the AI) will be part of our digital interaction reality. It won’t be the only one, but it will be an important one.
What an amazing time. 🤩