CoX Space raises $854K for AI‑powered ring that controls AR without touch

While a gesture‑control ring might look like a hardware curiosity, CoX Space is really building an AI‑first interaction stack in miniature. Their VANZY device embeds vision tracking, 9DoF sensors and on‑device learning to adapt to a user’s movements over time, with the same team reportedly building Samsung’s smart factory AI platform. That makes the ring both a consumer product and a testbed for embodied, continuous‑learning interfaces.

For AGI, the importance of such work is in broadening the surface area where AI systems can observe and act. Post‑touch computing in AR environments will need agents that understand fine‑grained human intent from noisy sensor streams, not just text prompts. Training and deploying those models at scale on low‑power edge devices is a different challenge from stuffing ever more parameters into data‑center LLMs.

Crowdfunding success also shows there is real consumer appetite for novel AI‑mediated interfaces. If companies like CoX Space can parlay that into robust platforms—especially given their enterprise credentials—they’ll be well positioned as AR glasses mature and the race shifts from “which model” to “which agent lives in your environment all day.”