Building in Mountain View, CA

Your ears see more than you think.

AURI X1 is a wearable AI camera earphone that transforms first-person perspective into cinematic third-person video. For creators, it's a hands-free film crew. For enterprise, it's the world's most natural egocentric data collection device.

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01 / TECHNOLOGY

Ego-to-Exo Video Synthesis

A tiny camera on your ear captures your world. Our AI reconstructs your body, understands the scene, and generates cinematic third-person video in real time.

AI Pipeline
01

Capture

Ear-mounted wide-angle camera

02

Reconstruct

3D scene from sparse frames

03

Understand

Human pose and appearance

04

Synthesize

Virtual camera cinematography

05

Output

Cinematic third-person video

01

Autonomous Cinematography

AI generates follow-cam, orbit, dolly, and low-angle shots from your first-person capture. Professional angles, zero effort.

02

World Model Integration

Sparse keyframe capture meets cloud-scale AI scene completion. Battery-efficient recording that reconstructs full cinematic sequences.

03

Hardware-Rooted Authenticity

Cryptographic proof-of-capture verifies every frame is real. Content authenticity built into the silicon.

04

Embodied AI Data Engine

First-person video, spatial audio, and IMU data generate high-value training data for robotics, world models, and embodied AI.

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Patent Claims Filed
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AI Subsystems
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Patents Granted (Prior Work)
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Pipeline Stages
02 / ENTERPRISE DATA

Egocentric Data for Robotics & World Models

The same hardware that empowers creators also captures the most natural first-person video data for training embodied AI. Ear-mounted sensors closely approximate robot head positioning, minimizing domain shift.

E1

Embodiment-Aligned Collection

Ear-mounted camera angle approximates robot head sensor layout. Data collected by humans transfers directly to robot policy training with minimal adaptation.

E2

Scalable Data Pipeline

Purpose-built collection hardware paired with large-scale human operators. Continuous first-person video, depth estimation, spatial audio, and 6-DOF IMU data.

E3

Multi-Modal Richness

Every recording captures synchronized video, audio, inertial motion, and environmental context. Ideal for training foundation models that bridge perception and action.

E4

Enterprise-Ready

Ruggedized collection devices for factory and field environments. Custom data schemas, privacy controls, and integration with existing ML pipelines.

03 / PRODUCT

More Than a Camera. More Than an Earphone.

AURI X1 sits on your ear like premium earbuds. It hears, it sees, and it creates.

A

Spatial Audio + ANC

Premium earphone experience with active noise cancellation and immersive spatial audio. Your daily driver.

B

Always-On AI Vision

Ultra-wide camera captures your perspective continuously. Intelligent recording triggers capture what matters most.

C

Social AI Agent

Real-time speaker identification, conversation context, and social assistance. Your personal networking copilot.

D

All-Day Comfort

Designed around your ear's natural geometry. Lightweight, stable, and built for hours of wear.

04 / FOUNDER

Built by a Serial Inventor

Huachao Gong (Shawn)

Founder & CEO, LUCKEY

Product designer and inventor with 33 granted patents worldwide. Previously built Nums, the smart touchpad keyboard adopted globally and featured by Wired, The Verge, CNET, and Unbox Therapy (1.7M+ views). UCSC AI Visiting Scholar, Tsinghua University alumnus.

Forbes 30 Under 30 BMW #NEXTGen Global Winner 33 Patents Granted Tsinghua University Danish Royal Innovation Award
Wired The Verge CNET Forbes Unbox Therapy CCTV

Previous Exit

Nums smart keyboard: designed, manufactured, and shipped globally from Shenzhen. Featured on major tech media, delivered to Mark Zuckerberg and Satya Nadella.

Upcoming Book

"Seven Methods of Innovation" — contracted with People's Fine Arts Publishing House, releasing mid-2026. A methodology framework for product innovation.

Recognized By
NVIDIA Inception USPTO Patent Pending Forbes 30 Under 30 BMW #NEXTGen Tsinghua University
05 / TEAM

We're Hiring Builders

Small team, outsized ambition. We're looking for engineers and researchers who want to define a new category of wearable AI.

Computer Vision / 3D

Ego-centric pose estimation, 3D reconstruction, neural rendering. If you've worked with NeRF, Gaussian Splatting, or human body models, we'd love to talk.

Generative AI / Video

Motion-driven video generation, diffusion models, real-time inference optimization. Turning skeleton data into photorealistic video.

Hardware / Embedded

Camera modules, audio DSP, low-power SoC design, mechanical engineering for ear-wearable form factors.

Product / Growth

Defining the user experience for an entirely new product category. Consumer hardware meets AI-native workflows.

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Let's build together.

Whether you're an investor, an enterprise data partner, or someone who wants to join the team — we'd love to hear from you.

shawn@luckey.to
Mountain View, CA / Singapore / Shenzhen