in our ears. Iyo has created an audio computer that will allow you to immerse in a new normality where you always have someone to count on. You can be learning, working out, shopping, or creating, all while staying connected to the real world.
With the Iyo audio computer, you will have a hands-free and head-up experience that can come in handy even when you’re traveling and need someone to translate in real-time what you are hearing. This new product offers the capability to “Overlay your reality with your favorite music to put you in a good mood or, even better, collaborate with your virtual audio companion to create it.” as Iyo presents it.
Another great feature presented in their new product is the ability of the earbuds to “choose what you want to hear”. Iyo earbuds will offer the ability to listen to a personalized experience, focus on specific voices, and even eliminate “unwanted sounds” when you are at a party or in a crowded environment.
The price starts at $599 and is now available for preorders. The products appeared after Humans launched their AI Pin, which was said to change the world but did not have the expected outcome. Even more so, another product that wanted to leverage LLM to deliver helpful information and be a helping hand in our lives is Rabbit R1. Many criticized this product, stating that the device could only have been an app.
Yet the excitement surrounding those products proves the need for an AI assistant that uses LLMs to help us get on with our lives. Iyo product is one that consumers are already used to - the Bluetooth earbuds. The product will offer familiarity while it will borrow features encountered on assistants such as Alexa, Siri, or Google.
Jason Rugolo, the CEO and founder, stated, “I saw all these people I knew in AI, three different research organizations inside Google, all the external people, OpenAI and others all making this incredible progress with these language models, all independently” (...) “I realize it’s algebra and data, and no one has a corner on either of those things. I saw that the foundational models were going to proliferate and become a commodity — very controversial in 2019.”
However, it is worth mentioning that Iyo One is not the first product created by the company. They also have Vad Pro, which retails for $1650. The product works as a premium set of headphones with software that can deliver exceptional audio based on your surroundings.
This can also be applicable to Iyo One, which is designed to offer premium sound quality, unlike the AI Pin or the R1 which only delivers AI capabilities.
Rugalos also said “I think the key is delivering value immediately, right out of the box, focusing on the features you’re going to ship with, (...) We believe this is a platform, and we think there are going to be millions of what we call ‘Audio-First Apps,’ these AU apps. But people don’t buy platforms. They buy products that do super useful stuff for them. So, just on the sound isolation, the comfort, the music quality alone, we think there’s a very large market for these devices.”
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