I want to say up front that, I don’t feel any sympathy for the company, nor do I have any love for the ewaste they created.

That being said, it’s a decent idea, and I would have liked to see where it went. Their implementation was completely wrong on do many points, but it was still a half decent idea. Basically having what Google assistant should have been, pinned to your chest like a comm badge sounds pretty cool. The laser projector for your hand was interesting, but very hokey, the data communication was poorly thought out, far too slow to be useful, the design wasn’t the worst, but still not great. The battery life was questionable at best…

But the concept of what it was supposed to be able to do, was not terrible. Possibly the last terrible part of the product.

Personally, I want a personal assistant. Since I’m not rich, I can’t exactly hire one. Having an AI assistant, that you talk to through a communications badge seems like a decent idea. I’d want it to basically run from my phone, mostly local to my phone, so my data isn’t pushed everywhere, but the tech isn’t quite there yet. Not enough TOPS, not enough memory, not enough storage for all the models; and certainly not enough battery to power AI running on your phone.

I can see what they were going for but they fell so far short of the goal that it’s not really visible in what was delivered.

I imagine the pitch meeting about this being something along the lines of a guy rushing in after watching Star Trek discovery, when they got the holographic comm badges, and going, I want to make that! With the Zora AI and everything! And then people jumping on the bandwagon, knowing full well that they’re not even going to come close.

I hope everyone that works there gets new jobs in sectors that aren’t using AI as a parlor trick or buzzword to try to move units.

Good bye, company I don’t care enough to remember the name of. We hardly knew you, and even that was probably too much interaction.