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Brilliant Labs Halo (and Frame)

Brilliant Labs (founded 2019 in Hong Kong by Bobak Tavangar, formerly of Apple, with co-founders Raj Nakarja and Benjamin Heald, and operations in Singapore;…

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Manufacturer
Brilliant Labs
Form factor
wearable
Maturity
commercial
Lifecycle
active
Deployments
1

Overview

Brilliant Labs (founded 2019 in Hong Kong by Bobak Tavangar, formerly of Apple, with co-founders Raj Nakarja and Benjamin Heald, and operations in Singapore; about $6M raised from angels including Brendan Iribe, Adam Cheyer, Eric Migicovsky, and Nirav Patel) makes open-source AI smart glasses. Its first product, the Frame, has been on sale since early 2024 as a 39-gram developer-oriented device with a microOLED prism display, a nose-bridge camera, and the Noa multimodal assistant that routes to cloud models; its newer consumer-oriented Halo, announced July 31, 2025, is a roughly 40-gram all-day design with a color microOLED peripheral display, camera, microphone, bone-conduction speakers, Noa with long-term Narrative memory and a Vibe Mode for building apps in natural language, and a licensed Liquid AI vision-language model, offered at pre-order for $299. Both are open-source, with design files and code on GitHub, which is the company's most distinctive and verifiable differentiator. This entity sits in the wearable form factor as a deliberate axis-extension to AI-hardware devices rather than acting robots. The registry records it at commercial maturity on the strength of the shipping, widely reviewed Frame, while noting that Halo's on-device Liquid AI inference performance and confirmation of delivered units are claimed but not independently verified.

Verified vs. claimed

Maturity stage
commercial(Commercially deployed with revenue-generating operations.)
Verified deployments
1 deployment on file
Sources on file
6 sources, view all

Key facts

Weight

39 g (Frame), ~40 g (Halo)

Price

$299 pre-order (Halo)

Runtime

~14 hr (Halo)

Display

microOLED prism 640x400 (Frame); color microOLED peripheral (Halo)

Production target

Q4 2025 (Halo)

Specs

Notes

Verified: Brilliant Labs (founded 2019, Hong Kong; founder Bobak Tavangar, ex-Apple; co-founders Raj Nakarja, Benjamin Heald; Singapore ops; ~$6M raised, angels incl. Brendan Iribe, Adam Cheyer, Eric Migicovsky, Nirav Patel) makes open-source AI glasses: the Frame (shipping since early 2024, developer/tinkerer-oriented) and the consumer-oriented Halo (announced Jul 2025). The open-source hardware/software stack is the distinctive, verifiable differentiator., AI-substance: moderate: Noa is a real multimodal assistant (vision + voice + memory), not pure veneer; the Liquid AI partnership points to genuine on-device vision-language inference on Halo. But on Frame the AI is mostly cloud API routing, and Halo's on-device inference + 'decades-long memory' are announced, not independently benchmarked., Maturity / cap-flag: maturity=commercial: Frame has been on sale and reviewed since 2024 (a genuinely commercial dev product). Halo was at pre-order with a Q4 2025 target; on-device Liquid AI performance and delivered-unit confirmation are claimed-but-not-verified.

Specs

Frame (Jan 2024): 39g, microOLED prism 640x400, nose-bridge camera, no speakers (BT earbuds), Noa assistant via cloud (Perplexity/OpenAI/Whisper), open SDK (Lua on-device + Python/Flutter). Halo (announced Jul 31 2025): ~40g, ~14hr, color microOLED peripheral, camera + mic + bone-conduction speakers, Noa with Narrative memory + Vibe Mode, licenses Liquid AI LFM2-VL-450M; pre-order $299/$349, Q4 2025 target. Both open-source (GitHub).

Form Factor

wearable (open-source AI smart glasses with display + camera + multimodal voice assistant)

Data & sources

Press releases

1

Web sources

5

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Availability and pricing

Availability
Shipping now
Price
$349 (actual sale price)as of 2026-06-17
Units in field
Not disclosed
Sales model
Not disclosed
Lead time
Not disclosed

Pricing

One-time purchase

$349 USDactual sale priceas of 2026-06-17

History

Price status: actual-sale-price = real published price at time of sale; manufacturer-target = vendor target, not yet realized; analyst-estimate = third-party projection, not a vendor figure; not-announced = no price on record.

Prices verified as of Jun 17, 2026

Deployments (1)

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Recent activity

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Deployment-verified media (1)

PRIMARY SOURCE
Courtesy of Brilliant Labs

Brilliant Labs footage of its Halo open-source AI glasses (a peripheral microOLED display plus bone-conduction audio). 'World's thinnest AI glasses' and the Noa agent are early-stage maker claims; pre-order and early shipping.

From deployment: Global

Safety record

No incidents on record for Brilliant Labs Halo (and Frame).

Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

Sources (6)

  1. https://www.engadget.com/ar-vr/brilliant-labs-launches-its-second-generation-smart-glasses-halo.html
  2. https://www.roadtovr.com/brilliant-labs-halo-all-day-smart-glasses-preorder/
  3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Labs
  4. https://www.liquid.ai/press
  5. https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3247855/generative-ai-could-be-smart-glasses-killer-app-says-hong-kong-founded-brilliant-labs
  6. https://brilliant.xyz/products/halo

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Common questions

What is Brilliant Labs Halo (and Frame)?
Brilliant Labs (founded 2019 in Hong Kong by Bobak Tavangar, formerly of Apple, with co-founders Raj Nakarja and Benjamin Heald, and operations in Singapore; about $6M raised from angels including Brendan Iribe, Adam Cheyer, Eric Migicovsky, and Nirav Patel) makes open-source AI smart glasses. Its first product, the Frame, has been on sale since early 2024 as a 39-gram developer-oriented device with a microOLED prism display, a nose-bridge camera, and the Noa multimodal assistant that routes to cloud models; its newer consumer-oriented Halo, announced July 31, 2025, is a roughly 40-gram all-day design with a color microOLED peripheral display, camera, microphone, bone-conduction speakers, Noa with long-term Narrative memory and a Vibe Mode for building apps in natural language, and a licensed Liquid AI vision-language model, offered at pre-order for $299. Both are open-source, with design files and code on GitHub, which is the company's most distinctive and verifiable differentiator. This entity sits in the wearable form factor as a deliberate axis-extension to AI-hardware devices rather than acting robots. The registry records it at commercial maturity on the strength of the shipping, widely reviewed Frame, while noting that Halo's on-device Liquid AI inference performance and confirmation of delivered units are claimed but not independently verified.
How much does Brilliant Labs Halo (and Frame) cost?
Brilliant Labs Halo (and Frame) is listed at $349 on the DEPLOY registry. This is an actual sale price on record.
Is Brilliant Labs Halo (and Frame) actually deployed in the real world?
Yes. Brilliant Labs Halo (and Frame) is independently verified in real-world operation on the DEPLOY registry, confirmed at named deployment sites with primary sources: not a concept, render, or demo-only.
Who makes Brilliant Labs Halo (and Frame)?
Brilliant Labs Halo (and Frame) is made by Brilliant Labs, based in San Francisco, California, USA, founded in 2019.
Where is Brilliant Labs Halo (and Frame) deployed?
1 verified deployment of Brilliant Labs Halo (and Frame) is on the DEPLOY registry, including at Global.
Methodology: Verified · 6 sources (1 primary) · last reviewed 2026-06-28

Verification posture

Verified

High confidence

Review state

Stable

Last reviewed 2026-06-28

Maturity + lifecycle

Maturity stage: commercial

Lifecycle: active

Architectural position

Cohort: wearable

Sources by quality tier

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Knowledge base
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The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.

Methodology surface for Brilliant Labs Halo (and Frame).