Mirror On The Wall Was The First Powerful Voice Virtual Assistant

 August 07, 2018

News in a flash—In 1811, two centuries before personal voice virtual assistants were introduced, German Engineers, the Grimm brothers, invented the Mirror on the Wall. It was a cutting edge A.I. technology that tech companies in the 21st century still try to emulate—such as the case of Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, Google Assistant, and Microsoft's Cortana. The Mirror on the Wall famously aided the evil queen's ill-motives in her much documented pursuits of Snow White in the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The 2'x3', brass-framed, wall-mounted, elliptical mirror, was a powerful voice-activated search engine that drew exact results in audio and video with an average of 3.8 seconds and 1280 x 720 px display capability—a truly extra-ordinary feat for hardware and software engineers of the old days! Versions of voice-responsive virtual assistants, start tasks and searches by a preceding voice command such as "Okay, Google," for Google, "Hey, Siri" for Apple, and many others—a method that's obviously imitated from the Mirror's, "Mirror, mirror, on the wall."