Brilliant Labs

Brilliant Labs is an open-source ecosystem that empowers developers and creatives to imagine a new world of augmented reality (AR) glasses. Their products, including Frame and Monocle, come with built-in AI smarts to help you get more out of the experience and a collection of tools for hacking, building and modifying.

Frame is an AR headset that analyzes the world around you visually with OpenAI, translates speech with Whisper and searches the web with Perplexity. It's a headset you wear like a pair of glasses, and it accommodates a wide range of prescription lenses. Frame is open-source software, released under the permissive MIT license, so you can change and customize it as you see fit.

Some of Frame's features include:

• AI Superpowers: Boost your life with AI abilities like live translation and visual analysis.
• Open-Source: Change and customize the code under the MIT license.
• Developer Resources: Get access to constantly updated documentation and a collection of tools for building and sharing apps.
• Community Support: Join Brilliant Labs' community of tinkerers, artists and hackers in the Brilliant Labs Discord group.

Monocle is a pocket-sized AR device geared for creative hackers, weighing 15g and taking photos at 720p resolution. It comes with a charging case and USB-C cable and connects to a computer with Bluetooth for programming over a web interface.

Brilliant Labs products cost:

• Monocle: $299.00 USD
• Frame: $349.00 USD (base model), $448.00 USD (prescription lens models)

The open-source and community focus of the project encourages collaboration and innovation in the AR and AI realm. Brilliant Labs' goal is to build tools that give people knowledge, inspire creativity and help people understand the world better, which in turn will help everyone prosper.

Published on June 14, 2024