I can’t decide if I like or dislike the Halliday Smart Glasses, with its ultra-small display and curious AI

• Halliday’s smart glasses have a small screen and AI.
• They are supposedly proactive.
• The screen is incredibly small, but to your eyes it may not seem like it.

One of the hottest trends at CES 2025 is wearables, and if we zoom in a little, we’ll see that the biggest part of that trend is the new smart glasses. Halliday is being added to that collection, but with a decided twist, a new ‘proactive AI glasses’ that aims to augment your reality with information at a glance.

Halliday – named after a key figure in Ready, player one – are smart, wearable glasses of 35 grams that have the advantage of looking almost exactly like traditional glasses. However, there is a fair amount of technology hidden within the classic-looking glasses, including an unusual Digi Window microdisplay.

Integrated displays are nothing new in the field of augmented reality glasses, but Halliday’s approach is a bit unusual. Where Snap Spectacles and Meta Orion smart glasses use waveguide technology to paint large parts of the glasses with semi-translucent images, Halliday uses one of the smallest displays I’ve ever seen and does absolutely nothing with the wearable’s lenses.

Developed by Gygeslabs, the Digi Window looks like a small pea-sized display placed at the top right of the frame. In images shared with Ny Breaking, it appears to be adjustable, allowing the wearer to move it slightly to better position the DigiWindow for each wearer.

It’s a small screen that looks like a 3.5-inch black and white display up close. Yep, that’s about the same size as the original iPhone. The usefulness of a small screen that requires you to look up to see is unclear.

However, the real benefit here may come from combining the Digi Window with AI-powered information that comes not from Halliday Smart Glasses, but from the Halliday AI app running on your Android or iPhone.