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We have decided to stop work on the Verplex smart glasses and put that time into our AI models and research instead. This was a deliberate choice rather than a project quietly running out of road, and it does not mean Verplex can never come back.
We are a small community, and a dedicated one, but there is only so much of us to go around. Too many things were happening at once, and Verplex was taking development time away from work we are better placed to do well. Rather than let it drift along getting a fraction of the attention it needs, we would rather say plainly that it is stopping.
There is also an honest limits argument. AI and software are areas we can genuinely work in. Hardware is a different unsolved problem, and not one we are familiar with. Building glasses well means solving optics, thermals, batteries, manufacturing, and supply chains — none of which we have experience in, and all of which would have to go right. Taking that on at the same time as our model work was not a realistic plan.
Into the models and the research. That is Deriva-1, Hikaru-1, and the ERL work underneath them, plus Kova on the software side. This continues the order of priority we set out in evaluating scope; cancelling Verplex is that decision followed through rather than a new direction.
The Nero Series was described as being built for Verplex and for robotics. The robotics half of that is unchanged — a model that unifies vision, voice and language and can act in the physical world is still worth building, and it never depended on us making the glasses ourselves.
Cancelled means we have stopped, not that the idea was wrong. If we grow, or if the hardware side becomes something we can take on properly rather than partially, Verplex is welcome to come back. We would rather return to it deliberately than keep it nominally alive on no one's calendar.
Thanks for following along with it. Have a good weekend, everyone.
