{"id":"91f79979-f3cd-435b-9c4a-8928c50a949b","companyId":"b58d27bb-14ab-4f79-80c9-6dc6f4b62425","modelName":"Brilliant Labs Halo (and Frame)","slug":"brilliant-labs-halo","description":"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.","formFactor":"wearable","maturityStage":"commercial","lifecycleState":"active","supersededByModelId":null,"specs":{"notes":[{"label":"Verified","value":"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."},{"label":"AI-substance: moderate","value":"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."},{"label":"Maturity / cap-flag","value":"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).","formFactor":"wearable (open-source AI smart glasses with display + camera + multimodal voice assistant)"},"manufacturerSerial":null,"reviewStatus":"reviewed","sources":[{"url":"https://www.engadget.com/ar-vr/brilliant-labs-launches-its-second-generation-smart-glasses-halo.html","title":"Brilliant Labs launches Halo, its 2nd-gen AI glasses (pre-order $299; Q4 2025)","sourceName":"Engadget"},{"url":"https://www.roadtovr.com/brilliant-labs-halo-all-day-smart-glasses-preorder/","title":"Brilliant Labs Halo all-day AI glasses; pre-orders at $300","sourceName":"Road to VR"},{"url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Labs","title":"Brilliant Labs (founded 2019 HK; Frame open-source AI glasses; Noa assistant)","sourceName":"Wikipedia"},{"url":"https://www.liquid.ai/press","title":"Brilliant Labs partners with Liquid AI (LFM2-VL-450M vision-language on Halo)","sourceName":"Liquid AI"},{"url":"https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3247855/generative-ai-could-be-smart-glasses-killer-app-says-hong-kong-founded-brilliant-labs","title":"Hong Kong-founded Brilliant Labs; generative AI as smart-glasses app","sourceName":"South China Morning Post"}],"aliases":["Brilliant Labs Halo","Brilliant Labs Frame","Brilliant Frame","Noa"],"collisionRisk":"low","reviewNote":null,"manufacturerTermForTeleop":null,"createdAt":"2026-06-03T19:52:01.204Z","updatedAt":"2026-06-03T19:52:01.204Z","jsonLd":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Product","@id":"https://registry.deploy.report/models/brilliant-labs-halo","url":"https://registry.deploy.report/models/brilliant-labs-halo","name":"Brilliant Labs Halo (and Frame)","alternateName":["Brilliant Labs Halo","Brilliant Labs Frame","Brilliant Frame","Noa"],"description":"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.","identifier":"91f79979-f3cd-435b-9c4a-8928c50a949b","category":"wearable","publisher":{"@id":"https://deploy.report/#organization"}}}