Humane = Trek communicator with body cam, laser projector, simple gesture recognition, ChatGPT voice interface. Resembles iPhone 6 with its chrome sides.
The side view explains their logo đ, and is coincidentally resembles Imran Chaudhriâs presumed birth religion :)
Voice is low bandwidth for computing tasks, but a usability win for non-techies. Low-res projection feels like a gimmick.
Palms are terrible projection screens, rough and uneven. Ironically the brown skin of Chaudhriâs palms, and mine, shows higher contrast. Finally we win one :)
Tilting your palm to select a different control seems tricky, like one of those games where youâre rolling a ball in a maze. AR interfaces where you point are more precise.
A camera with no preview screen makes a pic hard to frame, so youâd use this for raw moment-in-time snaps.
Good use case: holding up food and getting a macronutrient breakdown. But LLMs are fairly dumb autocomplete, so the answer given (15g protein in a handful of almonds) makes no sense.
The eclipse part of the demo is also false:
the âbest places to see it are⌠Australia and East Timorâ⌠not right⌠will almost exclusively be visible across North America [512 Pixels]
Translation in your own voice is magical, and less awkward with a lapel communicator than a phone, but largely the magic of LLMs not hardware.
Better use case, not shown: what am I looking at? Use the cam, classifier + LLM and tell me if the mushroom is edible and in which recipes. Have a way to double-check.
Same with summarizing your texts, and composing them with different inflections: thatâs all LLM, the chest placement makes it more convenient.
Chest pin has a lot of overlap with AR use cases, but AR would be much higher visual bandwidth.
I cheer anyone trying to do something different and better, and dedicated hardware for LLM UI is promising.
Might find its killer app like  Watch eventually did. Could change as LLMs get more powerful. I might have a completely different reaction atter playing with it.
These use cases are like  Watch 1.0, not fully dialed in. On first glimpse it feels like a concept which couldâve stayed a sheaf of patents.