MIRA Glasses (formerly Halo)

I joined MIRA as an intern when they were still called Halo, before they'd raised their seed round. We worked out of an Airbnb, and the plan for the summer was to build products until we found product-market fit.

The product I spent most of my time on was the Halo necklace wearable. The necklace had previously launched to mixed reviews and low adoption, so my intern/founder subteam reimagined it. I redid Halo's CAD database and established their internal file structure, then redesigned the original necklace hardware to be more manufacturable, easier edited through real version control, and parameterized for future iteration. This refactor removed dozens of interferences while still reducing device volume.

I designed other necklace form factors as well, testing designs with behind-the-neck battery packs and less traditional pendant designs. On the software side, I wrote the on-device firmware for video streaming and sub-milliwatt sleep mode. My code allowed for much faster streaming by acting as a Wi-Fi access point with an invalid DNS, streaming video faster than Bluetooth without preventing internet access like past prototypes.

In the end, the necklace was shelved after customer interviews due to fears around privacy. Still, the CAD was sick and it was a lot of fun before the team went all in on glasses manufactured in China.

Other projects I worked on included building the team's workshop (printers, PPE, tools, etc.), creating internal tools for iterating LLM prompts and rating their outputs, designing the camera rig used for recording "glasses-view" video clips, and producing marketing videos (here and the initial concept for this high production video).

If you're interested in how I got this job, the project I did for the interview can be found here.