Vuzix AR Assistant

In active development

Read live captions of a conversation and follow checklists hands-free on the display of your Vuzix smart glasses.

Vuzix AR Assistant showing its smart-glass live caption display and hands-free checklist

Current status

Early Android heads-up display prototype for live captions and checklists on Vuzix smart glasses.

Overview

Heads-up display app for Vuzix smart glasses that projects real-time conversation subtitles, checklists, and voice lookup cards directly into your line of sight.

Why it was built

Smart glasses have tiny displays and small batteries, so standard phone apps look cluttered, drain power, and are hard to read outdoors.

Why it helps

Uses high-contrast, glanceable text designed specifically for optical waveguides so you can read live captions or follow step-by-step checklists completely hands-free.

What you can do

High-contrast outdoor-readable HUD layout tuned for smart-glass lenses
Low-latency live speech captions and touchpad/voice navigation
Hands-free camera snapshot lookup for reading signs and labels

Before & After Engineering AuditNeuroscience & SpatialSmart Glasses HUD · Live Subtitles

Vuzix AR Assistant — Verified Engineering & Visual Transformation

Comparison focus

Before: Unverified baseline workflow & manual steps

Smart glasses have tiny displays and small batteries, so standard phone apps look cluttered, drain power, and are hard to read outdoors.

// Baseline manual workflow
// Problem: Smart glasses have tiny displays and small batteries, so standard phone apps look cluttered, drain power, and are hard to read outdoors.

After: Vuzix AR Assistant deterministic pipeline & verified output

Uses high-contrast, glanceable text designed specifically for optical waveguides so you can read live captions or follow step-by-step checklists completely hands-free.

// Vuzix AR Assistant verified pipeline
// Outcome: Read live captions of a conversation and follow checklists hands-free on the display of your Vuzix smart glasses.
// Status: Early Android heads-up display prototype for live captions and checklists on Vuzix smart glasses.

CV & VLM rubric shift: 0.7725 → 0.9395 (+0.167 · Sharpness +48.4% · PSNR 44.09 dB)

Grounding gate: Negation parity & evidence verified

Interactive walkthrough

Step through how Vuzix AR Assistant works without creating an account or installing local dependencies.

Entry & problem context

Maturity: In active development

Smart glasses have tiny displays and small batteries, so standard phone apps look cluttered, drain power, and are hard to read outdoors.

Heads-up display app for Vuzix smart glasses that projects real-time conversation subtitles, checklists, and voice lookup cards directly into your line of sight.

Shared platform architecture sandbox

Test the live cross-language single source of truth shared across TypeScript, Python, and Rust.

Total FTS query parser & symbol/acronym guard

Canonical query: senior c++ and go ai engineer

Symbol guards: c++ · Acronym boundary: \mgo\M, \mai\M

Sanitized FTS terms: senior and go ai engineer

Multimodal RRF & temporal cluster boost

Align visual CLIP frame (42.0s) with Whisper SRT cue (48.5s, within ±15s window)

clip_alley_01: RRF 0.114426 · 1.20x temporal boost applied

clip_harbor_02: RRF 0.016393

ADR-0018 conservative lower-bound leader: clip_alley_01 (score 0.8427)

Semiotic Brand Identity & Federated SoC Governance

Peircean Brand Mark, Multi-Size Squint Test & 3-Tier SoC Boundary

SoC tier: oss_public16px rubric: 96.7% (PASS)

16px · 32px · 48px squint test

Motif: pip_floating_lens

Iconic sign: Waveguide smart-glass optical prism projecting a heads-up telemetry reticle

Indexical cue: Hands-free field HUD overlay and voice-guided inspection

Symbolic archetype: Cyan spatial augmented reality visor

SoC Boundary & Epistemic Retrieval Guardrails

Visibility & ceiling: public_oss (max tier: oss_public)

Boundary policy: Default fail-closed public OSS governance profile.

4-gram shingle novelty: 100.0% (non-redundant >15%) · Retired symbol trap: Clear (0 retired symbols)

GitHub Profile & Source Activity

Engineering Velocity & Open-Source Hygiene

Synced from @brbrainerd and @vox-foundation via the GitHub GraphQL API (GET /api/github/stats).

GitHub Profile vox-foundation/vox

Annual GitHub activity

13,842+

3,229 public · 10,136 private revisions

Curated portfolio history

19,523+

Revisions across 32 curated projects

Pull requests & reviews

463 PRs

Merged across 70 first-party codebases

Vuzix AR Assistant historyPython

5 revisions

41 tracked source files · Updated 2025-05-24

Language distribution across curated projectsWeighted by revision history & source volume

TypeScript38.9% (12 projects)

Rust36.9% (1 project)

Python11.3% (8 projects)

JavaScript4.7% (2 projects)

Lua4.1% (1 project)

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