I can’t decide if I love or hate the Halliday smart glasses with their ultra-small screen and nosy AI

• Halliday smart glasses include a small screen and artificial intelligence.
• They are supposed to be proactive.
• The screen is incredibly small, but it may not seem that way at first glance.

One of the hottest trends at CES 2025 is wearables, and if we zoom in a little, we’ll see that most of that trend is new smart glasses. Joining that collection, but with a decided twist, is Halliday, new “proactive AI glasses” that seek to augment your reality with information at a glance.

Halliday: named after a key character in Ready player one – are 35 gram wearable smart glasses that have the advantage of looking almost exactly like traditional glasses. However, hidden inside the classic-looking glasses is a good amount of technology, including an unusual Digi Window micro-display.

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

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

It is a small screen that looks like a 3.5-inch monochrome display close to the eye. Yes, it is about the same size as the original iPhone. The usefulness of a small screen that you have to look up to see is unclear.

However, the real benefit here may come from combining 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.