Chapter 3 - Bobak Tavangar - CEO of Brilliant Labs

Описание: Jacob Babcock sits down with Bobak Tavangar, CEO and co-founder of Brilliant Labs, to talk about Halo—their newly announced AI glasses—and what “open by default” really means for smart-glasses developers and OEMs. We cover Halo’s heads-up display approach, the case for model-agnostic assistants, how to protect privacy without storing rich media, and why “clarity of use case” is the strongest signal that the market is moving from hype to real adoption.


What you’ll learn
• Why Brilliant Labs chose a full-color HUD over AR overlays
• The path to all-day use with low-power sensors and 14-hour battery targets
• Model-agnostic AI (Noah) and options to use your own back end
• Developer experience: docs, SDKs, Discord, and quick “hello world” paths
• A privacy design that transforms images and audio into vectors instead of storing rich media
• Where smart glasses sit on the Gartner Hype Cycle—and what moves the category forward

Timestamps
00:01 Halo launch and hardware basics
02:54 Display choices and the “retro arcade” UI vibe
05:14 Why HUD beats early AR for thin, light frames
07:11 Product philosophy: AI inference “in front of your eyes”
18:00 Open ecosystem vs closed or hybrid models
27:44 Gaps in today’s ecosystem and all-day battery ambitions
34:10 Privacy approach: on-device capture, vectorization, and encryption
49:36 The adoption signal: clarity of use cases
56:59 Hype cycle: from trough to slope of enlightenment

If you’re building wearables or planning your smart-glasses roadmap, this one’s packed with pragmatic detail.