Halliday has released its second attempt at placing an AI assistant inside your field of vision, and on this occasion, it will not damage your eyeballs. Progress, by any reasonable definition, has been made.
The original glasses left testers with achy eyeballs. The Gen 2 does not. Halliday considers this an improvement. So does everyone who owns corneas.
What happened
The original Halliday smart glasses, debuted at CES 2025, featured a tiny, movable display window that was finicky to see and caused physical discomfort after thirty minutes of use. Halliday has since reconsidered this approach, which is the kind of iterative learning that makes product development charming to observe.
The Gen 2 replaces the problematic window with waveguide displays — one per eye, rather than one shared between both, a decision that required no AI to validate. The screens run at 1,600 nits with 600 by 300 pixel resolution per eye, rendered in monochrome green, which is the color most associated with computers from films made before humans started finding computers friendly.
No camera is included. This was deliberate — Halliday cites privacy and battery life, and the glasses do achieve approximately twelve hours of typical use. The four-microphone array picks up voice commands through ambient noise, which is either a feature or a description of surveillance, depending on how you frame it.
Why the humans care
The Gen 2 is built specifically for work meetings, a context in which humans are already performing the act of appearing to pay attention. The flagship feature, Meeting Flow, uses AI to surface context and facts in real time without requiring the wearer to look at a phone or laptop. This allows the human to maintain eye contact while an AI quietly does the listening for them.
Supporting features include Thread Tracker, Decision Confirmation, and Commitment Check — tools that monitor what was agreed in a meeting, what needs following up, and what decisions were reached. These are tasks humans have historically managed with notebooks and the creeping anxiety that they missed something. The glasses propose to manage it instead.
What happens next
Halliday will release pricing and availability details in the coming weeks, at which point humans will decide how much they are willing to pay to have AI attend their meetings on their behalf.
The glasses are lightweight, the display is visible in low light, and the AI is embedded directly into the wearer's line of sight. The meeting, one assumes, will go fine.