Halliday promises its smart wayfarers have a ‘proactive’ AI assistant inside

Halliday has turned up at CES 2025 in Las Vegas with a pair of eponymous smart glasses filled to the brim with technology. There’s a waveguide display in the right eyecup that will project the equivalent of a 3.5-inch screen into the wearer’s view. This display is also easy to read in strong light and the company promises the hardware is “invisible to onlookers.” The company adds the glasses weigh just 35 grams and promise eight hours of battery life on a single charge.

There’s no outward-facing camera, but Halliday says its product comes with a “proactive” AI assistant, anticipating your needs before you ask. The glasses have built-in microphones that are listening to your conversations, analyzing them and answering prompts as they come up. If you were to wear one of these in a meeting, say, you’d be able to ask the system to produce a summary of said meeting immediately afterward. (And yes, we are curious about the privacy implications of such a system.)

As well as barking instructions to your glasses, the sides are touch sensitive, but it’s more likely your main mode of interaction will be with the bundled trackpad ring. You should be able to discreetly control what the AI is pumping to your eyes without attracting attention.

As well as listening out for questions in conversation and throwing up answers from the internet, you can use the screen as a hidden teleprompter. It can also translate 40 different languages, offer real-time directions and play music with the accompanying on-screen lyrics.

Get used to the future. Just like cell phones and then smartphones have become ubiquitous, smart glasses will be a thing. A common thing.

People have trouble imagining them being useful, but there are many use cases. I think the biggest ones are helping with content creation for influencers and trainers/educators, and training AI on specific tasks.

While it is possible to share a screen with AI to train it, smart glasses will enable training on the screen and in the real world. Want to show your AI-powered, household robot appliance how to prepare a certain mean, how you order ingredients on your deliverable shopping list, and how to put those items away, so that your robot can take over these tasks, smart glasses will be handy.

What’s more, AI will be able to be a “free” personal life coach and trainer that will help you achieve personal goals and be far more productive.

Maybe these things will be possible without looking like a dork (even if some of us are dorks).

The biggest unanswered question is whether they will make you more connected to people. In some ways smartphones have, and in others, they have reduced those connections.

Today, Meta has the most popular smart glasses. They have a similar form factor as this one. It’s a popular style and is less intrusive than other previous attempts in this category. Meta’s current generation lacks a display, but it’s coming. The one featured here has no camera but does have a display. Both kinds have uses. They will be much more powerful and useful when they integrate both of these features.

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