Indian Startup QWR Unveils AI-Powered Smart Glasses Humbl, to Be Shipped Later This 12 months

Question What’s Real (QWR), an Indian deep-tech startup, introduced Humbl, a synthetic intelligence (AI)-powered sensible glasses, on Thursday. The startup claims that Humbl is the primary made in India AI sensible glasses, and presents options just like the Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses. The glasses are mentioned 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 gadget later this 12 months.

QWR Unveils AI-Powered Smart Glasses

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

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

The firm highlighted that the AI assistant within the sensible glasses can accumulate and course of information coming from audio and video channels. The gadget has cameras that gives it the visible feed, utilizing which it will probably recognise objects and landmarks, and know when the person is reaching a flip to information them to their vacation spot.

However, QWR didn’t point out any {hardware} specs or particulars concerning the massive language mannequin (LLM) that’s powering the AI assistant. Additionally, whereas the gadget is anticipated to be launched later this month, the startup mentioned that the gadget itself is not going to be shipped to consumers until the final quarter of 2025. As of scripting this, the startup’s web site doesn’t even point out the product, though there are some promotional movies 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.