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What the Brilliant Labs Halo (and Frame) knows about you
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.
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11 findings on record · 11 verified against primary sources
What it collects about you
Where your data goes
What you can control
What it collects about you
The data this device picks up.
Recording you
Memory mode, when you turn it on, may continuously or intermittently capture ambient audio, camera frames, and sensor data. Visual and audio indicators show when sensors are active, and you can pause or disable it anytime.
Your body data
Does not create or store biometric identifiers like faceprints or voiceprints for identification. Voice tone, facial expressions, and gaze are analyzed briefly during use but not saved.
People around you
Halo's optical sensor and microphones capture bystanders for AI inference and the optional Narrative memory system indexes faces, names, and conversations; the privacy policy places responsibility on the user to comply with recording laws but provides no technical consent mechanism for bystanders.
Your location
Halo collects location data if the user grants permission for context-aware features and local search; the Narrative memory system tracks locations to enable queries such as recalling who the user spoke with at a specific place and time.
Where your data goes
Who else can see it once it leaves the device.
Shared with others
Outside AI providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Whisper, and Perplexity are contractually blocked from using your data to train their models. Brilliant does not sell or share your personal information.
Sent to the cloud
Halo processes AI workloads on-device by default using a dedicated NPU, with cloud transmission only when additional compute is necessary and under secure encryption; the company states no raw point-of-view data ever leaves the user's phone or glasses.
Selling your data
Brilliant Labs states it does not currently sell or share personal information as defined under applicable US privacy laws; third-party AI providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity are contractually prohibited from using user data for their own model training.
Training their AI
Brilliant Labs states it does not use identifiable personal information to train third-party AI models; the privacy policy does not address whether anonymized, aggregated, or de-identified data is used for Brilliant's own model training or product improvement.
What you can control
Your say over the data it holds.
Kept on the device
Speech, image, and sensor data is processed on-device by default. When complex tasks require the cloud, data is de-identified, encrypted in transit, and deleted after processing. Raw footage is never stored.
How long they keep it
Brilliant Labs retains personal data only as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes collected; raw audio and video is not retained beyond immediate processing and is converted into non-reversible vector or summary forms; account deletion triggers automatic erasure of related memories within 30 days.
Deleting your data
Users can view, delete, or reset AI-generated memories at any time through account settings; when the user deletes their account, related memories are automatically erased within 30 days, and users can disable or mute cameras, microphones, or sensors at any time.
The full record
- 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).
- Form Factor
- wearable (open-source AI smart glasses with display + camera + multimodal voice assistant)