Microsoft's HoloLens may have been sidelined, but a Microsoft designer's fan-made vision — the Copilot Veja — shows how the next wave of mixed‑reality thinking could trade heavy headsets for discreet, AI‑supercharged earbuds that "see" the world and speak answers back in real time.
Background...
ai earbuds
ambient computing
ar wearables
consumer tech
copilotveja
depth sensing
edge computing
enterprise tech
ergonomics
headset alternative
hololens
microsoft design
mixed reality
multimodal ai
on-device ai
privacy by design
smart glasses
voice-first ai
wearable tech
A quietly radical idea—don’t put another screen on your face; put intelligence in your ears—has surfaced from inside Microsoft’s design ranks and, in doing so, reopened a long-running debate about how AI should meet the world. The Copilot Veja concept, an unofficial design study by Microsoft...
ambient ai
ar wearables
audio-first wearables
cloud ai
copilotveja
ear stems
edge ai
frontline workers
microsoft copilot
mixed reality strategy
on-device inference
privacy controls
stereoscopic cameras
tactile interface
voice first ai
wearable tech ethics
A Microsoft designer’s fan-made concept imagines Copilot as a truly wearable, audio-first assistant — ear-worn “stems” called the Copilot Veja that trade a heads‑up display for stereoscopic cameras, tactile controls, and spoken feedback, inviting a fresh debate about the future of on‑body AI...