1Vision | JieonChoi

Awareable 1 Vision

UI that learns you, not the other way around

Jieon Choi personal project-2024.
This Project is not associated with Anthropic or any other entities shown on this page

Overview

Summer 2024

14 Week Duration

Individual Project

Skills

Tech Research

3D printing

Problem Solving

SolidWorks

KeyShot

Keywords

Artificial Intelligent

Smart Glasses

Computer Vision

Gesture Control

Design TL; DR

1Vision is the world’s first vision focused AI assistant device designed to learn your life and make it easier.

1 Vision is presenting a whole new way of interacting with AI and the world. But do not worry, Aware AI will learn your gestures and intentions, not you learning how to use this new interface.

How it wotks - Hardware

In a small 60g glass frame, sensors and microprocessors are jampacked to support the Aware AI.

Eye Tracking Sensor

Monochrome AR

AI Vision Cameras

Camera Indicator

Stereo Speakers

Swappable Nose Bridge

Endless implications

Learns from your daily life. From moving your cursor to auto logging your spending, AwareAI can learn and adapt to your daily needs.

AR Navigation

POV Video Call

Smart Home Control

Cursor Eye Control

AR Price Match

Spending Auto Log

How it wotks - Software

RememberU AI

Key Feature 1

RemeberU will remember personal details from past interactions or databases and relay it to the user via audio or AR display.

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•Workout Logging

AwareAI will recognize the fitness equipment’s UI and automatically log the relevant data

Aware AI

Key Feature 2

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•Language Translation

Aware AI can translate multiple languages including sign languages and relay the translation to your ears.

Cookie IRL

Users can opt-in to share their real-life interests with the service providers for a personalized web experience and more.

Key Feature 3

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Design Process

INTRO

Inspiration

Research

Ideation

Final Design

Keeping up with trends is crucial for identifying the initial opportunity.

I keep up to date with tech trends with a passion that helps me to have a better sense of future opportunities, feasibility, and, decision making.

Here are the key tech trends I identified for the project.

Identify the opportunity

Inspiration

Project agenda

Artificial Intelligence will change how we navigate the world. What form factors and features will carry out this shift?

To explore space, build a robot suit, or fall in love with it, we all can use a little help from AI assistants.

With the development of Large Language models and GPT modules, the future we imagined in the movies was never closer.

AI assistants market is heating up

With the rapid advancement in LLM, natural language processing, and, computer vision, competition for AI assistants is getting fierce on both hardware and software.

1. Artifical Intelligent

Smart glasses are emerging as the next frontier of wearable tech

Smart glasses are preparing for prime time as technology is starting to catch up with the visions.

2. Smart Glasses

The human-computer interaction method is ready for the next step

The way we communicate with computers has gotten easier through the years, but we always were the ones who learned how to. I believe AI will turn this around where the computer learns how to help you.

3. Human-Computer Interface

1.Meta Orion 2.Meta Rayban 3.Even Realities G1

The next generation of human-computer interaction is upon us

*This project was done before the announcement of Meta Orion

During the research phase, I learn about the market and competitive landscape and dig deeper into early stage technologies to gauge an ideal and feasible design direction.

Here are the products and technologies in the smart glass sector.

Learn what is possible

Research

Gauging the future

1. Technology Benchmark

By looking into technologies only offered in small quantities or not yet available to the general public, I can gauge what features and form factors would be feasible and ready for its prime time when the product I am designing is aiming to launch.

Meta RayBan

Even Realities G1

Tobii Pro

Meta RayBan is a smart glass by meta with the colaboration of RayBan catching both style and technology.

It is equipped with wide angle camera, speakers, and microphones so users can talk to Meta's AI assistant.

Tobii pro is a glasses with eye tracking sensors. It demonstrates the feasibility of eye tracking within a small form factor.

Tracking the user's eye movement is an ideal input method alongside the microphone.

G1 is a great benchmark for the current state of projection technology for smart glasses.

It utilizes the internal refractions of the lens so the projector is not exposed and projection is hardly visible from the other side of the lens.

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Meta Orion

Meta Orion Wrist Band

Apple Vision Pro

Meta RayBan shows a glimpse of the future where AI enabled AR glasses can actively assist you.

It is equipped with multiple sensors, and, an AR display lens but it is still a prototype.

Apple Vision Pro utilizes eye tracking as a primary input method for its interface.

This is another example of how eye tracking will be the preferred way of input for the head mounted AR/VR devices.

Orion wristband is a device that can read the hand and finger movement.

It demonstrates the potential of gesture based user interface for smart glasses.

Gauging the competition

2. Market Benchmark

When it comes to glasses it is more than just a tech gadget, they are a fashion statement, a crucial piece for first impression. So while 1Vision is a smart glasses, I benchmarked it with other 'nonsmart' glasses as well as smart glasses in the market.

Designing the first impression

Sometimes glasses are enough to hide your true identity.

We as a human species have evolved to judge when we meet someone for the first time quickly. And what you wear on your face can sway your first impression so much. It can give hints about your hobby, personality, and a lot more.

Ideation is not limited to how it will look, but also what features it should enclose, and how the entire system will work. The following demonstrates the process of developing ideas for aesthetics, features, system structure, and, user experience.

Let's start with how it can work with Anthropic and other services.

Building ideas from the research

Ideation

In the midst of the AI revolution

1. About Anthropic

In the world of Chat GPT and Meta's AI, Anthropic is an AI safety and research company based in San Francisco. For now (OCT,2024) they offer limited information and products, including their AI model Claude.

Though Anthropic has stated that they are creating a reliable and beneficial "AI system" so I took the liberty as an industrial designer and imagined Anthropic's AI system with both hardware and software products.

Building trust

2. Public Relation

Users and the general public can be worried and reject the idea of AI and smart wearable devices tracking their lives. I believe this will become less of a problem as people get used to AI and wearables but it is important to approach with caution with generation 0 products.

Most Advanced Yet Acceptable (MAYA)

Often, in the world of technology, the most advanced stuff is not the best stuff. Like the case of two Harvard students and their demo, even though there is technology to identify random people off the street just based on the public data online, this approach will make the general public despise the product, keeping the technology from its full potential.

AwareAI:

Local and cloud based AI models for personal assistance.

Awareable:

Physical products powered by AwareAI.

Windows Recall

On June 18, 2024, Windows announced a new feature 'Recall' with their latest OS, Windows 11.

Recall automatically captures the user's screen and uses an AI assistant (co-pilot) to help users search for information in the future. This new feature faced huge consumer pushback as they worried about their privacy eventually making Microsoft recall the Recall.

Harvard Student's Demo

In October 2024, two Harvard students demonstrated how they could dox (stalk people using online resources) random people using Meta's smart glasses with a camera.

This demonstration stirred up debate and concerns about smart wearables with cameras and surveillance on people with advanced technology in general.

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Google Glasses, Segway, and Nintendo Virtual Boy were products that all failed as it ignored the MAYA principal.

In the midst of the AI revolution

1. About Anthropic

You have come along the journey of research and ideation; now it is time to see How this process forms into one refined design.

Let's get to it.

The moment you were waiting for

Final Design

Final Design

On device AI

To ensure the privacy of users and the public, sensitive functions like personal identification will only be done on devices (glasses and phone) without sharing it with 3rd party or external server.

Clearly communicating the boundaries will be the key to gaining trust among people. 1 Vision's flagship feature, Remember U AI, will not actively gather a person's information by searching online, it will only be able to remember information that person gave during prior conversations with the user.

Setting boundaries

Clear Communication

For features like real-life cookies, it is important to provide options to users, not to track their real-life interests. Staying transparent with the intention is necessary for building trust.

Creating the look

3. Design Ideation

Although you have seen the final design in many of the pictures till now, in reality, I have not come up with any sketches until this point of the process. Here is the process of crafting 1 Vison with that style and comfort.