The New Halliday Gen 2 AI Glasses Feature a Monochrome Interface Designed for Work.

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San Francisco-based smartglasses company Halliday has just revealed a wealth of details about its second-generation smartglasses—glasses with a waveguide display that project an AI-generated image onto the user’s field of view. The glasses are expected to go on sale in September. They retail for $599 and are available for pre-order now .

Unlike Ray-Ban and Oakley glasses by Meta , the Halliday G2 glasses don’t have a camera—their main advantage is the monochrome display, which overlays a field of green text on your field of view. Think of it more like a personal video game interface than a video player.

If you’re worried about being caught wearing smart glasses in public, this pair is discreet and even quite fashionable. But fashion isn’t the focus here; the emphasis is on practicality and performance. “We’re not building a tool for entertainment,” Halliday COO and co-founder Carter Howe told me. “This is a tool that will help our users improve their work and their lives.”

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Halliday G2 glasses are designed to enhance performance.

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While these glasses come with translation software and other essential features, the main draw is the “Meeting Flow” app, which provides real-time AI-powered assistance for work meetings. Holliday promises to turn on the app before a meeting at 2:30 PM, and the glasses will monitor the conversation, provide helpful tips, and transcribe what’s said. You can also automatically “rewind” the conversation 30 seconds back, so if you miss something, you can instantly catch up—perfect if you’re prone to distraction.

Another feature Holliday touts is quick information search. With a single tap, you can ask the AI ​​to review the last few minutes of a meeting, identify any open questions, and provide answers on the fly, without taking your eyes off your phone. Other features are aimed at using AI tools to keep the meeting on topic and identify instances where important points of discussion have been missed.

“Meetings are just the beginning,” Howe mused. “In the future, we’ll be able to make interviews more effective, networking sessions easier, and much more. We’ll be able to take this beyond the workplace, like your next doctor’s appointment, so you can ask the doctor the right questions and know the exact meaning of any words they use.”

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Howe envisions a future where AI agents embedded in your glasses can listen to all your interactions, determine their purpose, and help you figure out what to do next—so if you’re stopped by a police officer on your way home from a productive meeting, it could provide you with an action plan to best avoid the situation.

How Halliday G2 glasses fit into the smart glasses market

The Halliday G2 glasses seem to fall into the same category as the Even Realities G2 glasses—they even share the same name. Both pairs of glasses feature a monochrome display using waveguide technology, and both are designed for productivity and everyday use. In my opinion, the Even Realities G2’s signature “Conversate” app is very similar to “Meeting Flow,” but Halliday is trying to take this concept further. If successful, the company could become a serious competitor to Even Realities in the display-equipped glasses niche. (The Halliday G2 glasses also feature built-in speakers, while the Even Realities glasses are silent.)

One drawback is the presence of an app store in the Even Realities G2 glasses, offering a variety of third-party apps for everything from birdwatching to Bible reading. At launch, the Halliday G2 glasses will only support pre-installed apps.

Halliday Gen 2 Specifications

  • Battery life : 12 hours with normal use.

  • Weight : 49 g

  • Audio : Built-in speakers

  • Display : monochrome, binocular waveguide display.

  • Brightness : up to 1600 nits

  • Resolution : 600×300 per eye

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