As early adopters of the Rabbit R1 and the exciting new r1OS Version 20240615.10/0.8.103(134D8EC), we’re at the forefront of a revolutionary shift in how we interact with technology. It’s important to remember that groundbreaking advancements often take time to mature.
The recent update demonstrates the Rabbit team’s commitment to continuous improvement. The GPT-4o powered translator, Wolfram Alpha integration, and advanced meeting recorder features showcase their dedication to user-centric development.
Evolution, not Revolution
The transition from Blackberry to iPhone perfectly exemplifies this concept. While loyal users initially resisted change, the iPhone’s adaptability and innovative features ultimately reshaped the mobile landscape. Similarly, Rabbit R1 possesses the potential to become an indispensable AI companion, but it requires our collective input.
The Power of Feedback
The size and dedication of the Rabbit development team directly impacts the speed of innovation. However, our feedback is the fuel that propels progress . The more we utilize R1 and provide constructive feedback, the more data they have to refine and personalize the user experience.
Imagine the possibilities of R2 based on our collective insights! Multi-step workflows, enhanced personalization, and advanced multilingual capabilities are just a glimpse of what lies ahead.
Let’s embrace the Rabbit R1 journey, actively participate in its evolution, and shape the future of AI assistants together!
Someone made a great point that we got a free year of Perplexity Pro from this, and I couldn’t agree more. The device itself feels like an add-on for that price.
I’ve never been more quick to drop off a product like this. Discord is active with negative sentiment, and even months later after the buzz we still have 0 capabilities that power developers to integrate their services with this ecosystem.
The only reason I am brought back to these discourses is through email. I saw your avatar and it is much familiar to the questions I’ve seen your avatar post on the Discord. I’m sorry you haven’t found any answers yet
Just as a first post… couple of hours ago I unpacked this rabbit box. Funny to get this device in my hand. No expectations, well… that’s not entirely true… as I was already expecting it could connect and do certain kind of tasks for me that are related to smart devices etc…
Apparently they are not there yet, but that’s also what has been told during their pilot and their demo.
Think twice…, al the activities you can already do with VR Goggles, what would you expect from this gadget? Same expectation like me… hopeful this could be a new thing… If that last part is the case… just give them time as a Start-Up… Probably they are facing all kind of restrictions with the big tech giants, that won’t allow them a trespass, as they see REAL competition…
So if that’s the case. Just boost them positively as much as we can, although we might be to a certain extent also disappointed. I have the feeling, we can do it together…!
Actually of what it can do already now #notcomparingittoasmartphone I’m already quite happy. If I will show my parents, they are totally flabbergasted… so I’m patiently waiting for what else to come…
And directly towards Hole.Rabbit.Tech please show remarkable gratitude to your early adopters and share with them if there are gestures on the way
By the way are you guys also closely connected with NVidia?
Maybe its already between the other topics, but anyone knows if it’s already capable of connecting to bluetooth on iPhone?
Wrong. Tell someone he can only eat brocolis for now, as new vegetables will arrive later as it’s a lot of work to plant grow and harvest. Maybe 70% of people will hate brocolis but will eat them as they are the only option not to die. Data will tell you ooooh they love our brocolis. Truth is give us tomatoes, avocados, corn, fish, meat, and now you know what people really eat.
Seriously, Magic Camera and Suno are the only things working almost each time (speaking as a european, as i know from fact r1 works best for americans only). If i don’t use Magic Camera or Suno i just let r1 sit in a drawer waiting for all the fixes it needs before i can use it.
Hello everyone! I got my R1 yesterday after several months of waiting. I have been following its progress over that time while also closely following the development of other LLMs on other devices (ChatGPT chat assistant on iOS, for example).
I am very much focused on using AI and assistants as productivity enhancers. I want to simplify my workflows, however small or large. Small assists can lead to large long-term returns.
That is where I feel the R1 is right now. It is very easy to see how it will become obsolete in a short time without some very basic yet vital integrations. Calendar access is huge. Perhaps integrations with Google Drive, Dropbox, etc., and, in my case, applications such as Fireflies (an amazing meeting summary).
As part of my morning briefing, I would love for my R1 to be able to tell me that I have X number of priority emails, summarise them and move on to the next agenda topic, all while I sit and have a coffee. I don’t see how this is anything but a simple matter of integration development, either on the side of the community or the developers.
With Apple announcing that AI will soon be a cross-application/device layer across iOS, it seems that the R1 could take advantage of this and focus on useful integrations. I think this is the key to its longevity (IMO).
Current integrations are basic and largely useless right now. They serve as more proof of concept, which is good. However, the day I wake up and see an integrations tab pop up in the Rabbithole, with lists of options to connect with, that’s the day the R1 becomes integral to my daily life.
I am confident that the R1 will become a powerful productivity tool for those who need it (and don’t want to reach for their phone or tablet first thing in the morning).
I had the same after 5mins. This is why I joined this forum. I want to try and understand the value people are getting out of it this device. It doesn’t do anything that was in the demo I saw that got me to buy it. Even the connection Spotify timesout after 40mins and one can only login via a desktop UI! Besides, even my TV plays music via voice commands these days… I could use it as an very expensive but nice looking kitchen timer but it doesn’t even do that. Or an e-book reader.
for me even if we could get alarms and reminders this would make the device of some use for me to use on a daily basis, currently I look at it and shrug as there’s nothing it really adds daily other than a bit of Spotify while walking the dog, but even thats hit and miss on whether it plays the songs you want.
I don’t really know what to say. It’s an AI companion that can do many things, answer questions, in a self contained box. The teach mode and further functionality is coming in the near future. A lot of times with current tech we get our devices pushed out sooner before they have all of the promised features available because tech moves so fast. This can be a double edged sword for many. I’m just with it for what it is: I can ask it complex questions which performs better than siri or google assistant, i can play music, generate songs, generate photos, take photos, use it as an assistant to record and recall notes, a voice recorder which can transcribe meetings and save to rabbithole automatically, for $200 i think it’s hard to beat. If something like this would have come out 10 or even 5 years ago we’d be blown away by it
A lot of the dissappointment just comes from not understanding what it means to be an early adopter of a project. What it CAN do as far as capability outweighs whatever dissapointment of what it doesn’t currently do imho. The OTA updates are coming strong and I think we have a lot fo capability to look forward to in the future with teach mode.
I understand your point, moldavite,
We are all early adaptors and we know that. I guess the thing is not having all all features available immediately but the features that are released should be reliable. It is frustrating that R1 is sometimes not responding. Doesn`t it have a memory to save my request and if he has served that request already ? Obviously NO. THESE are the frustrating things. THESE should be fixed. Shaking the thing for the Setup-Menu ? What a silly idea. Sorry, but every time putting the R1 to the table or handling it, it goes to the Setup-Menu. The Touchscren is often not working …you have to use the wheel… why ? You have a touchscreen…. Use it… When being in translator mode (which is indeed pretty good if it works) giving the R1 to the other person…… klick you are in the setup-menu… is R1 not testing that stuff in real life ß THESE are the things which the people get angry about. The rabbithole is totally confusing. There should be sections like KNOWLEDGE LONG TERM, SHORT TERM, THINGS R1 has remembered and not a simple timeline. Improve the features already there. You will make lots of people happy.
Regarding the shake to settings, i have to say i love that feature. If i landed there accidentally, i just did the shake out of it and it was fine. So for me that feels natural and easy. Just my perspective
Absolutely agree with this. We are early adopters, and I think (for me anyway) it’s not about the frustration of its current limitations; it’s the excitement of its potential to be one of the most useful productivity tools in my day-to-day workflow. And I can’t wait for this to become a reality
True we are early adapters, I had my batch 1 in hand 10 weeks ago, and I was full of excitement about what it could be and was the biggest fan boy, I really wanted this for the personal companion it is being advertised to be and to answer all my goofy questions. Getting a working LAM, teach mode and all the other fun stuff they are introducing is fantastic, but my original post was about the lack of it being a personal companion I would be much happier if it had just the basic features that one would expect from a personal companion since its being sold and advertised as one. These features aren’t groundbreaking and should have been there day 1 and my other gripe was about how much this unit fails at responding to questions or won’t connect to whatever service your tying to use. This product has been launched and is no longer in preorder mode so I really think the basic features should be ready and no more excuses a lot of these issues have been here since day 1 and should have been addressed by now almost 3 months later. I will happily wait for the groundbreaking stuff but like I said I want the basic shit to work while I wait
I see your point here but i think you are missing some major ones, let me lay it down to you:
R1 should had been an AI, not an AI controller of different apps. Till now i see no sign of intelligence to the r1, except searching back in a memory journal.
All questions you ask are provided by Perplexity and the other AI models, using their APIs. R1 takes your vocal input > makes it text and feed to the AI model > Ai model send back answer > R1 is reading it ! ( where is the r1-AI in this ? )
Customer care: USA is USA but what about the other parts of the world, where Rabbit Tech didn’t even think we have different measurements unites here, we don’t use or have available certain apps, etc. / what i want to say is that is a bit poorly strategised to offer to a part of your users functionalities and to another part not. And not even to address a plan in fixing it …
What happens when there are more complex functionalities? if now with what we have, has so much bugs and issues? Is the rabbit r1 gonna ever be something you can rely on and really use it as your assistant?
i could go on but i don’t want to repeat myself. i asked in this group already some serious questions and demanded some transparency without frustration, i know my post was acknowledged, promised to get back and its been days and of course nothing.
Need some original thought/feedback from r1 to show a point of difference to an ancient smartphone in it’s responses. If r1 was a child, where do you think it currently sits in the school system?
Mine was in my drawer within 24 hours. I received mine rather close to when Apple made its announcement about the upcoming AI features in the new iPhones. I realized, with what is coming in all of the phones - why would I need to carry a second device? Especially a second device that doesn’t consistently do what I need it to do? I loved the idea at first, and because I’m a gadget geek, I pre-ordered fast. But so much has changed in AI, even since CES this year, that the R1 just isn’t measuring up for me anymore. I do think that phones will replace any need for a second “personal assistant” device quite rapidly - if not with this iteration, then with their next iterations, similar to how the iPhone replaced the iPod for most people. The R1 doesn’t measure up for me. The apps it interfaces with are not useful to me and half the time it can’t even get my location right (which is a major problem for Uber and the other apps). So why would I use it? I’m glad I could support Rabbit by purchasing it (and I’m even happier I didn’t cave and buy the Humane pin instead), but I just don’t think a second device to carry will work for me.
