Jarvis

Inspiration

Cluely kinda sucks, and Iron Man is the coolest movie of 2009.

What it does

Yeah, so we hacked the Meta Ray-Bans display to let superintelligence assist you 24/7. It guarantees you the best line for your sales pitch, the smoothest rizz for your date, and the answer to every combinatorics question Citadel could ever throw at you. Oh, and we also made it cross-reference any face you come across with a giant database that probably has you in it too, just for fun. This isn’t Cluely; this is Jarvis.

Challenges we ran into

We were really excited to put facial recognition in our glasses, but we ran into tons of issues trying to find a provider. Absolutely no provider supported APIs, so we had to build our own scrapers to dynamically extract information from sites using Selenium. We burned through around $70 testing different sites for face searching. A few didn’t work, and one even banned us for bot usage, which violated their ToS. So yeah, that was $30 down the drain, unfortunately.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We were the first ones to actually make something like this work. Cluely talked about doing something similar, but we beat them to it. Unlike Cluely, we don’t overprice and underdeliver. We just built it, hacked it, and made it real.

What we learned

Nothing’s impossible, seriously. Meta has put so many restrictions in place to prevent people from hacking their glasses, but we scrapped it together at a hackathon anyway.