Japan’s Cellid shows HJ1 AI smart glasses with Foxconn partners

Cellid’s HJ1 glasses are a reminder that the race to build the next computing platform is happening at the hardware layer as much as in model labs. By combining a thin, high‑brightness waveguide with on‑device AI compute and eye tracking in a ~46g package, Cellid and its Foxconn partners are trying to make AI assistants something you wear all day, not something you open in a browser. That’s a very different design target from current VR headsets and could be a more realistic path to mass adoption.

For AGI, ubiquitous, head‑mounted sensors create an extraordinarily rich stream of multimodal data about how people see, move and interact with the world. If companies like Cellid can ship these in volume, whoever gets privileged access to that data will have a powerful advantage in training agents that understand physical context, attention and intent. At the same time, pushing AI inference to resource‑constrained glasses will keep pressure on model designers to make small, fast, and privacy‑preserving variants of their biggest systems—skills that will be essential for deploying AGI‑like capabilities safely at the edge.