Halliday G2 smart glasses ditch cameras for AI-powered meeting intelligence at $599
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Halliday's New Smart Glasses Skip the Camera
There's a new pair of camera-less smart glasses in town: the Halliday G2, designed to listen to workplace meetings, absorb what happens, and summarize all the interesting bits, much like always-listening wearables. Halliday says the mics can be turned on for meetings, using AI voice commands, or
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Halliday's latest smart glasses feature a much-improved display
I first slipped on Halliday's original smart glasses at CES 2025. I was not a fan. The glasses had a tiny, movable display window embedded into the frame that was incredibly finicky to see, and my 30-minute demo left me with achy eyeballs. It was an interesting concept with terrible execution,
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Halliday's camera-free G2 smart glasses bet on meetings
Last year Halliday made what several reviewers called the worst smart glasses of 2025. Now it is back with a second pair, and the pitch has flipped: no camera, no gimmicky ring, and an AI aimed squarely at your work meetings. The early verdict is that it has fixed the worst of it. It is rare that
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These camera-free smart glasses want to give you a secret advantage in meetings
The Halliday G2 is available for initial pre-sale today with a $10 refundable deposit for a $100 discount off the $599 retail price. Full shipments and prescription options launch in September 2026. While we've seen early concepts like the original Pip-Boy-esque Halliday AI glasses show off what
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Halliday G2 smartglasses skips the camera for something better, in-lens displays
Halliday, the brand behind the unusual Halliday Glasses smartglasses released last year, is back with its second generation product called the Halliday G2. Rather than targeting the ongoing success (and controversy) of the Ray-Ban Meta, the Halliday G2's have the Even Realities Even G2 in its
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I went hands-on with the Halliday G2 -- the smart glasses made for meetings
Are smart glasses too ... smart? Rather than creating a jack-of-all trades pair of specs, the new Halliday G2 smart glasses are aimed at one thing: Making your meetings more focused and productive. To that end, these glasses don't have a camera, but instead a set of mics and an AI that can act as
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Halliday's New Gen 2 AI Glasses Have a Monochrome HUD Designed for Work
Flagship "Meeting Flow" app is designed to make meetings more productive. San Francisco-based smart glasses company Halliday just dropped a ton of details about its Gen 2 smart glasses, a set of waveguide display spectacles that project an AI-powered overlay into users' field of view. The glasses
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Halliday G2 Smart Glasses Ditch the Camera for Privacy At $599
Steven Sullivan spent a week testing the Halliday G2 smart glasses, a wearable designed to enhance productivity with AI-driven features. A standout feature is the "Meeting Flow" suite, which offers live captions, real-time translations and automated meeting summaries. The glasses also include a
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Halliday unveils its second-generation smart glasses, the G2, priced at $599 with shipments planned for September 2026. The camera-free design targets professional environments with Meeting Flow AI that tracks conversations, identifies action items, and provides real-time translations in 45 languages. After a rocky debut with its first-generation glasses, the company has rebuilt its approach with upgraded binocular waveguide displays and workplace-focused AI features.
Halliday G2 Targets Professional Use Cases After Rocky First Launch
Halliday is taking another shot at the smart glasses market with its Halliday G2, a camera-free device aimed squarely at work meetings and professional environments. Priced at $599, the glasses are available for pre-order with a $10 refundable deposit that unlocks a $100 discount, with full shipments and prescription options launching in September 2026
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. The move comes after the company's first-generation glasses received brutal reviews, with Engadget scoring them 54 out of 100 and Android Police calling them a "buzzword-laden curiosity"3
. Chief Operating Officer Carter Hou acknowledged the company made "many mistakes" and has since rebuilt its engineering and supply-chain teams3
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Binocular Waveguide Display Replaces Problematic DigiWindow
The original Halliday glasses featured a fiddly DigiWindow projector display that left testers with "achy eyeballs" after just 30 minutes of use
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. The Halliday G2 abandons this approach entirely, instead using a binocular waveguide display with dual micro-LED projectors capable of reaching up to 1,600 nits of peak brightness and 600 by 300 pixel resolution per eye2
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. Positioned in the upper field of view for quick glanceability, the monochrome green displays feature auto-dimming functionality for darker environments2
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. Early testers from The Verge, who were not fans of the original, now call the G2 "better glasses," noting the display was easily visible inside a dark bar2
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Meeting Flow Brings AI-Powered Transcription to Work Conversations
The centerpiece of the Halliday G2 is Meeting Flow, an AI feature set designed to deliver contextually relevant data during live conversations
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. The glasses use a four-microphone array with up to two-meter voice recognition to capture meeting room audio4
. Three specialized AI-driven features work in tandem: Thread Tracker visualizes a meeting's conversation flow, showing when discussions shift from budget allocations to new hires, for example. Decision Confirmation surfaces what decisions have been made during the meeting, while Commitment Check verifies if action items have been assigned with clear deadlines2
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. After meetings end, the companion app automatically generates post-meeting transcripts and structured summaries4
.Hou argues that rivals like Plaud only help after the meeting, while Halliday runs AI agents live during conversations
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. The glasses also support real-time translation in over 45 languages, phone calls, and a voice assistant activated by saying "Hey Halliday"4
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Camera-Free Design Addresses Privacy Concerns in Workplaces
By deliberately omitting a camera, the Halliday G2 positions itself as "a professional tool for real-world work and social environments" where recording devices may be unwelcome
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. This approach mirrors Even Realities, which launched its G2 glasses late last year with the same camera-free philosophy and, notably, the same G2 name1
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. The decision also helps the glasses avoid workplace privacy restrictions that could affect camera-equipped rivals like Meta's experimental "super sensing" frames or Samsung's leaked Galaxy Glasses design4
. Without camera hardware, the G2 achieves a lighter form factor targeting under 50 grams and over 12 hours of battery life in typical use2
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.However, privacy concerns haven't disappeared entirely. The Halliday G2 lacks an indicator light or other method to inform people nearby that the glasses are recording audio
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. A Halliday representative told WIRED that "the user should disclose to the room that the recording is in progress, as it is required by any other recording device"1
.Subscription Tiers and Hands-Free Voice Activation Round Out Features
The glasses come with subscription tiers for AI services ranging from a free tier offering 120 minutes of recording time to paid plans from $10 per month up to $99
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. This echoes the subscription creep across wearables and AI smart glasses3
. Beyond Meeting Flow, the G2 offers daily utility features including notification cards, a "Cheatsheet" teleprompter mode for public speakers, music playback, and a Stealth mode that automatically reduces the display's light in dark rooms1
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. The company has dropped the smart ring that came with the original Halliday glasses in favor of hands-free voice activation and a touchpad on the arm3
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Whether AI wearables can successfully intuit what users actually need surfaced in conversations remains an open question. The real test for the Halliday G2 is whether its screen-free, AI-first approach finds genuine utility in professional settings or becomes another failed experiment in the crowded smart glasses market
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