Picking the glasses
One AR-glasses decision for two ventures. The criteria that survived the cut, and why doing it once was the right move.
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ESP32 firmware with Claude: the gap between 'it compiles' and 'it works on the bench'
Claude is excellent at writing ESP32 firmware that compiles. It is not reliable at predicting what that firmware will do when the hardware is actually in front of you. Three incidents and the gate I added.
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What it actually takes to build an AR overlay on a physical object in real time.
AR on physical objects is 80% coordinate system problems. Claude is great at helping you think through the geometry. You still have to understand it yourself.
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We put a language model inside a hardware device. Here's every decision we made.
LLMs in real-time hardware aren't ChatGPT. Latency budget is the constraint that changes everything.
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A 7-Class Failure Taxonomy for ASR-Glasses Coordination in AR Research Sprints
Parley is an AR-glasses product for bidirectional deaf/hearing conversation; the research arm is in Phase-0/1 Kaggle-published exploration and the consumer hardware (Everysight Maverick AI) has not yet shipped.
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AR research sprints when hardware isn't shipped
How to ship Phase-0 R&D against unreleased hardware (Maverick AI).
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