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Hands-on: Frame by Brilliant Labs is a disappointing stepping stone to something better
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- Authors
- Ben Schoon, Damien Wilde, Abner Li, Andrew Romero
- Published
- May 31 2024
- Word count
- 1584 words
I have been holding out for an actual review of these things and the results aren't unexpected. I spent some time in the Brilliant Labs Discord server, too, and most of the actual material that was posted by anyone official was a perfect example of attempting to mislead in order to increase hype.
A lot of the original marketing imagery showed off capability that I'm just not certain these will ever have. And that's just when it comes to the display technology chosen. The AI never interested me at all- anyone these days can shove an LLM in a box. I can install Ollama on a Raspberry Pi- does that get me a few millions from an ignorant VC or two?
I'll keep an eye on where the developer community takes this product. As they claim, both the hardware and software stack are open source, though software is always going to be easier to homebrew.
Well, I’m still excited for mine to arrive. I’ve got all sorts of silly plans for them.
Yeah this review is definitely intended more for regular users, which makes it essentially pointless as far as the intended audience, but it's the only review I've ever found, so I figured I'd share it.
I think it’s Brilliant Labs’s fault that people are reviewing this as a consumer product instead of an open source development platform. They kept pushing out ads and marketing material that said it was ready for the masses. If you look deeper it’s obvious that it’s just a step up from Monocle.