- Y Combinator Alum Seerslab Launches AInoon: Affordable AI Glasses Now on Kickstarter
- The $174 wearable provides seamless, intuitive access to leading AI models like ChatGPT and Gemini, challenging the premium-priced smart glasses market.
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Seerslab, an AR/AI technology company backed by Y Combinator, announced the launch of AInoon, a next-generation pair of AI-powered smart glasses designed to bring generative AI to everyday life. Now available on Kickstarter.
AInoon is priced at $174, delivering intuitive access to multiple large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and more, all from a lightweight wearable form factor.
"AI glasses shouldn't be a luxury for tech elites" said Michael Chong, CEO of Seerslab. "We built AInoon to be practical, affordable, and useful for real-world use, not just tech demos. It's AI that works for you, wherever you are."
One Tap to See, Hear, and Understand the World
AInoon is focused on providing real-world utility without a screen. By tapping the glasses' frame, users can activate an AI assistant to see, listen, and respond to their needs. Key features include:
- Instant Translation: Read foreign-language menus or signs, with translations played through the open-ear audio system.
- Object and Landmark Recognition: Take a photo of an object or landmark, and the AI will explain what it is and provide context
- Personalized Style Advice: Receive fashion recommendations based on what you're currently wearing.
- Accessibility Aid: Provides voice-guided descriptions of surroundings to assist seniors and visually impaired users.
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Seerslab, an AR/AI technology company backed by Y Combinator, announced the launch of AInoon, a next-generation pair of AI-powered smart glasses designed to bring generative AI to everyday life. Now available on Kickstarter.
AInoon is priced at $174, delivering intuitive access to multiple large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and more, all from a lightweight wearable form factor.
"AI glasses shouldn't be a luxury for tech elites" said Michael Chong, CEO of Seerslab. "We built AInoon to be practical, affordable, and useful for real-world use, not just tech demos. It's AI that works for you, wherever you are."
One Tap to See, Hear, and Understand the World
AInoon is focused on providing real-world utility without a screen. By tapping the glasses' frame, users can activate an AI assistant to see, listen, and respond to their needs. Key features include:
Disrupting the High-Cost AI Wearables Market
While the smart glasses market includes high-end devices ranging from $300 to over $1,000, AInoon delivers a comparable experience for under $200. Unlike many competitors that integrate a single AI model, AInoon allows users to choose the best LLM for their specific task.
"We focused on real value, not gimmicks," said Chong. "AInoon is for people who want AI to enhance their lives, not their budgets."
Kickstarter Campaign Details
About Seerslab
Founded in Seoul in 2014, Seerslab is a pioneering media tech company with a decade of AR and AI expertise. The team gained international attention with 'lollicam', the world's first AR selfie camera app, and 'ARGear', a widely adopted AR developer platform. The company is backed by Y Combinator, Social Capital, Kakao Ventures and more, reflecting strong confidence from top-tier investors in its vision and execution.
AInoon marks Seerslab's first hardware product—built on years of innovation in vision and generative AI—with the mission to make advanced AR and AI technology useful and accessible to everyone.
Product Specifications
(Specifications are subject to change without notice.)
Item | Description |
Weight | 1.6 oz |
Compatible Phones | Android, iOS |
Processor | 4-core CPU |
Camera Resolution | 16MP |
Video Recording | Full HD (1080p) |
Microphone | 3 digital microphones |
Speaker | 2 speakers |
Storage Capacity | 32GB |
Battery Capacity | 230 mAh |
Bluetooth | 5.0 BLE |
Item
Description
Weight
1.6 oz
Compatible Phones
Android, iOS
Processor
4-core CPU
Camera Resolution
16MP
Video Recording
Full HD (1080p)
Microphone
3 digital microphones
Speaker
2 speakers
Storage Capacity
32GB
Battery Capacity
230 mAh
Bluetooth
5.0 BLE
For more information about AInoon, visit: www.ainoon.io
Media Contact: Seerslab Press Team (Nicky Hwang)
Email: aninoon@seerslab.com
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Seerslab Launches 'AInoon' : Affordable AI Glasses Now on Kickstarter
In the news release, "When Demand Becomes the System: Delonix and the Rewriting of Hospitality's Operating Logic", issued on April 1, 2026 by Delonix Group over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that there is an update on the boilerplate of the release. Complete, corrected release follows:
SHENZHEN, China, April 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- On March 30, Delonix Group presented two new initiatives at its 2026 strategy conference: Genie AI, embedded in its Betterwood App, and a customer experience framework known as the Heavenly Stems & Earthly Branches Model.
Individually, they resemble product and service upgrades. Taken together, they suggest something more structural: an attempt to replace the logic on which the hospitality industry has operated for decades.
For most of its modern history, the sector has been governed by a simple equation—growth through physical expansion. More rooms, better locations, higher occupancy. Scale was both strategy and moat.
That equation is beginning to break.
Chairman Zheng Nanyan framed the shift not as cyclical, but structural. The convergence of maturing consumer expectations and rapidly deployable AI systems is eroding the effectiveness of asset-led growth. Standardization, once a tool for efficiency, now produces indistinguishable experiences. Capital intensity, long tolerated, is becoming a constraint.
What is emerging in its place is not a more efficient version of the same model, but a different organizing principle altogether: demand, not supply, as the system's point of origin.
From Capacity to Interpretation
In this emerging model, the central problem is no longer how to build and fill capacity, but how to interpret and respond to fragmented, real-time customer intent.
This is where Delonix is positioning Genie AI.
Unlike most applications of AI in hospitality—which tend to sit at the interface level—Genie AI is designed to sit in the middle of the system, between intent and execution. It does not simply respond to requests; it structures them.
A guest interaction—whether through app input or voice—is translated into a sequence of executable tasks, routed through a centralized decision layer, and distributed to the nearest available human resource, before feeding back into the system as data.
The technical architecture is not unprecedented. What is notable is the ambition to make it foundational.
If it works as intended, service ceases to be a function of individual responsiveness and becomes instead a property of the system itself. Variability, historically managed after the fact, is designed out at the level of coordination.
In that sense, AI is no longer augmenting service. It is defining its boundaries.
Standardization Was the Solution. Now It Is the Constraint.
The industry's previous growth model depended on standardization: replicable rooms, predictable services, consistent delivery across locations. This enabled scale, but at the cost of differentiation.
As consumer expectations evolve, that trade-off is becoming less acceptable.
Delonix's response is not to abandon standardization, but to layer variability on top of it—systematically.
The Heavenly Stems & Earthly Branches Model introduces a framework in which products and services are no longer fixed configurations, but evolving modules. Customer interaction becomes an input into how the product itself is iterated over time.
The implication is subtle but significant.
Hotels are no longer static assets with service attached. They become adaptive systems, where the product is continuously reshaped by usage.
For customers, this promises a form of progression—an experience that accumulates rather than resets. For operators and investors, it suggests a shift from one-off capital deployment to ongoing, incremental reconfiguration.
In both cases, the underlying assumption is the same: value is not embedded in the asset, but generated through interaction.
Control Shifts to the System Layer
What ties these elements together is not technology alone, but control.
In the traditional model, control resided in assets—ownership, location, physical scale. In the emerging model, it moves upward, into the system layer that interprets demand, allocates resources, and continuously adjusts the product.
This shift has implications beyond efficiency.
A system that can interpret intent, coordinate execution, and learn from outcomes begins to set the terms of competition. The advantage no longer lies in having more assets, but in having a better system for deciding how those assets are used.
In that sense, AI is not just infrastructure. It is governance.
An Industry at the Edge of Repricing
China's broader push to integrate AI into industrial and consumer systems provides the backdrop for this shift. Policy frameworks such as the State Council's "AI+" initiative are accelerating deployment, but the more consequential changes are happening at the level of business models.
Hospitality is one of the more exposed sectors.
As the marginal return on physical expansion declines, and as customer expectations become more fluid, the industry is moving toward a repricing of what constitutes value. Scale, once the primary moat, is becoming easier to replicate and harder to defend.
What replaces it is still being defined.
Delonix's approach offers one possible direction: treating demand as a continuously generated input, and building systems capable of capturing and compounding it. Whether this model proves durable remains to be seen. But its premise is clear.
The future of hospitality may depend less on how hotels are built, and more on how they think.
About Delonix Group
Delonix Group is a leading international hospitality and experiential consumption group in the Asia-Pacific region. Ranked 14th globally, the Group partnered with Marriott International to launch the world's first dual-branded luxury property: MajesTang Hotel • A Tribute Portfolio Hotel, while independently creating MaisonLee, a Tang-inspired premium business travel brand. As one of the first Chinese hotel groups to expand overseas, Delonix has established a presence in high-potential markets such as Japan and Indonesia, with a footprint spanning more than 200 cities worldwide. Its portfolio includes Model J, hotel MONday and an investment in IHI that owns Swiss-Belhotel and Artotel, positioning the Group at the forefront of building a next-generation global platform for high-end hospitality and culturally immersive travel.
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When Demand Becomes the System: Delonix and the Rewriting of Hospitality's Operating Logic
