Razer announced a concept AI wearable at CES that resembles a pair of wireless headphones (or Razer’s Barracuda gaming headsets, to be precise), with two camera lenses built into the ear cups.
The current iteration of Project Motoko is powered by an unspecified Qualcomm Snapdragon chip and uses dual first-person-view cameras positioned at eye level to capture objects, text, and anything else around you. There are also multiple microphones for receiving voice commands, dialogue, and environmental audio, and hands-free controls for managing audio settings.
Motoko is designed to be compatible with all major AI models, including those from OpenAI, Google Gemini, and Grok. The wearable “interprets and responds instantly, acting as a full-time AI assistant that adapts to schedules, preferences, and habits,” according to Razer, and will be able to understand context “instantly.”
Here’s hoping it stays in the concept stage
Stupid useless crap.
On the contrary. This is amazing, a scifi dream come true.
The problem is the companies behind, the intention of trapping you into their “service”. The fact that it is sealed, you cannot see, thinker on or modify what’s inside, that you wont own it.
But the concept and the hardware are awesome.
But what’s it for?
for nothing in particular, whatever you want.
What a sale’s pitch!
The same kind of sale’s pitch for wood, or steel or a screwdriver: buy it if you want it to do whatever you want with them.
Not everything needs a sale’s pitch. That’s kind of my point: a portable video camera that goes with you everywhere is cool tech as a raw material, like wood or steel.
Some people wouldn’t get the value of a piece of wood because they don’t have the skills to turn it into anything they want/need. Instead, they want somebody to overcharge them for renting a “table service” that they can only use 60 times per month in the basic plan. It is that people that need a “sale’s pitch” to convince them to buy the stupid “pro table plan”.
Holy false equivalencies, Batman!
Run your own AI server and it’s still lame
I stand by my assessment, and by your description so do you.
No, I do get you. I am tired to of the current state of affairs.
I was just trying to see it from a different angle… I think 25 years ago this would have sound fascinating.
Agreed, back before Google was actually about their slogan “don’t be evil” and Facebook didn’t exist. We didn’t know how good it was, did we.
No one wants AI headphones.
I want headphones with monitors outside.
Instead of bashing AI, I’d be pissed at another device uploading my everything into some cloud of some us-based company. Who wants that? At least make it with Local AI. Oh right, that won’t do for the next 15yrs because of the gargantuan resources needed.
But…people use x, WhatsApp, Facebook and google and Apple phones… So why not another privacy-destroyer with the added benefit of…I don’t know. Tell me what I’m looking at?
Great, more opportunities for people to record in public without asking for consent
your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to consider if they should
E-waste.
w…t…f…
I guess I could use some tips on my masturbation technique.
Just keep practising, champ.
Why wear headphones while masturbating?
The neighbours don’t really appreciate the loud moans from the hardcore porno I’m watching.
Yeah I know, weird people those neighbours.
Why didn’t I think of that earlier?
Don’t stop now they might think you’ve died
No, thank you.
