Halliday’s latest smart glasses feature a much-improved display

Key Points:

• Halliday's Gen 2 smart glasses have significantly improved from the original, replacing the finicky tiny display window with more visible waveguide displays, featuring monochrome green screens with 600x300 resolution per eye and 1,600 nits brightness.
• The glasses are lightweight, have a nondescript design, and offer about 12 hours of use, notably excluding a camera to enhance privacy and battery life, targeting primarily work meeting applications.
• A key feature, Meeting Flow, uses AI to provide real-time meeting context, decision tracking, commitment verification, and post-meeting summaries, alongside general AI functions like captioning, translations in 45+ languages, phone calls, and voice control.
• Despite improvements, the usefulness of AI features remains to be proven, and the glasses carry a $599 price tag (excluding prescription lenses), which may be steep for average consumers.
• Halliday Gen 2 glasses are available for preorder with a $10 deposit and $100 discount, with shipping expected in September 2025.