Labs · The product horizon
Labs is where Unlook experiments: optional capabilities, kept structurally separate from the core product, built to be turned off. The core never depends on them — and nothing on this page is quietly promised. Every idea carries its status in plain sight.
Nothing here is shipped · Every status is labelled
The product’s own words
“Camera Labs is unavailable in this version. It is optional, off by default, and its remaining qualification is deferred to Stage 9. Nothing here claims it works. No camera is accessed, no permission is requested, and no indicator is shown anywhere in the shipping product.”
Camera Wellness Labs
In development · designed, not built
The largest question on the horizon. Camera Wellness Labs asks a narrow question: is there anything genuinely useful a camera can do for screen wellness without ever becoming surveillance? The design answers with exactly two things — and a long list of things it refuses to be.
“If you tell us you normally wear glasses at your desk, Unlook can check once at the start of a session and quietly mention it if they are not on.”
Only for people who confirm they normally wear glasses — “If you say no, Unlook will not look for glasses at all.” At most one gentle nudge per session, and never more than once every four hours.
“During an Eye Reset only, Unlook can add a line at the end confirming your eyes were away from the screen. The timer never depends on it.”
Runs only during an active Eye Reset — never while you work. The Moment completes regardless: “the timer is unaffected either way.”
Eight commitments, designed in before a single frame is captured. The quoted lines are the product’s own.
“Nothing is requested yet. Your operating system will ask for camera permission only after you have chosen what you want.”
“An indicator is visible whenever the camera is on” — and the operating system’s own camera light is expected to be lit beside it.
“Everything is worked out on this computer” — the model is bundled with the app, and the bundled runtime performs no network access.
“No image, video or audio is saved or sent.” Frames exist only in memory for the length of the check, then are closed.
“Rather than guess, Unlook would rather say nothing.” An unsure answer is never rounded up into a confident one.
“One switch turns it all off, instantly” — from Settings, or from the indicator itself while the camera is on.
If Labs ever misbehaves, one remote switch turns it off for everyone. The core product carries on untouched.
“It never affects whether a Moment counts.” The camera adds a sentence to a finished break, or it adds nothing.
Designed, not built
Every line Camera Labs would say is already written — and none of it is a verdict.
While the camera is on
Camera on for this Moment
Top-left of the Moment, for exactly as long as the camera runs — it disappears the instant the Moment ends.
When it saw clearly
“Your eyes were away from the screen for most of it.”
“The camera stopped the instant the Moment ended. Unlook kept one word — ‘away’ — and no image.”
When it could not
Camera unavailable
“The camera could not see clearly enough to add anything this time. Your Moment counts exactly the same.”
One sentence, added or not added. Never a guess, never continuous, never a condition of the break counting.
In the first version
Meanwhile, the shipping product says it plainly: the only Labs screens a first-version user can reach describe a feature they cannot switch on — and everything else carries on exactly as before.
Nearer term
The first version’s design holds more than its committed core. These are documented and designed — and conditional: they ship only if they meet the bar, and the launch never depends on them.
Conditional · V1
“Stand up and walk away.”
A five-minute Moment for more than your eyes. Its support line is already written: “Five minutes. Unlook will still be here — you do not need to watch this screen.”
Conditional · V1
“Step away properly.”
Fifteen minutes, genuinely away from the desk. “Unlook pauses everything until you return.”
Conditional · V1
“One environment ships in this version. Others are only added if they reach the same bar.” The two conditional slots the design permits are the quieter tempos above — nothing ships at half the flagship’s standard.
Conditional · V1
A simple weekly view of how your Healthy Screen Days are going, in “factual trend language rather than AI-generated claims.”
Conditional · V1
Sound inside a Moment — off by default if it ships at all. Soundscapes and richer audio controls wait further out.
One rule already governs every tempo: the longer the Moment, the quieter the environment. An Eye Reset asks for your gaze; a Long Break expects your absence.
Further out
Where Unlook is pointed after launch — held deliberately outside the first version so the narrow product can be finished properly.
“Build a narrow system that feels complete before building a broad platform that feels unfinished.”
V1.5
“Useful after the single-device experience is proven.” Your history stays local-first either way.
V1.5
“A major step from timer to intelligent companion” — and it waits until reliable behavioural data exists to learn from.
V1.5
A growing shelf of Moment environments, considered only “after core retention is proven.”
V1.5
Small resets for the rest of the body, built on the same invitation grammar as the Eye Reset.
V1.5
Unlook should know when you are presenting without being told. Until it can do that reliably, manual pause and quiet hours are the honest controls.
V2
“Extend the proven desktop system rather than duplicating it prematurely.” Mobile follows the desktop, not the other way round.
“These are not rejected ideas. They are protected from becoming launch dependencies.” — Unlook’s feature map
Ruled out
The product ships a page titled “What Camera Labs cannot do” — “written plainly, because a feature that overpromises is worse than one that is switched off.” The same instinct rules the roadmap. Some ideas are not deferred; they are declined.
“Too intrusive and unnecessary for the core proposition.” The camera is “never watching continuously while you work.”
“Not required for Unlook’s value and conflicts with its privacy promise.”
Your breaks are not a contest, and no one else keeps your score.
A quiet day never erases anything. Unlook prefers weekly consistency over streak loss.
If a number cannot show its working, it does not appear. A score you cannot check is a score you cannot trust.
Screen time is never a target to maximise, and nothing in Unlook is designed to pull you back to the screen.