Halliday Gen 2 Smart Glasses Put AI Meeting Notes in Your Field of View

Key points

• Halliday Gen 2 smart glasses replace the original's single hidden display with two waveguide screens, one per eye, showing monochrome green visuals at up to 1,600 nits of brightness.
• The glasses carry a $599 price tag and are available to preorder now with a $10 deposit, with shipment expected in September.
• A new feature called Meeting Flow uses AI to track decisions, action items, and conversation threads in real time during work calls.
• The glasses include a four-microphone array, up to 12 hours of battery life, and real-time translation across more than 45 languages.
• Halliday chose to leave out a camera, citing user privacy and battery life.

Halliday's first smart glasses, which debuted at CES 2025, were not a hit. They packed a tiny, mechanically adjustable display into the frame that was nearly impossible to look at comfortably. The writer who reviewed them for The Verge AI walked away with sore eyes after just 30 minutes. So a second attempt needed to clear a low bar.

It mostly does.

The Gen 2 swaps that awkward hidden screen for waveguides, a technology that bounces light through thin lenses so you see a floating image in your line of sight. These are not invisible. Hold the glasses at the right angle and you will catch the reflection. But they are far easier to use than what came before, and there is now a separate screen for each eye, giving you roughly double the viewing area.

The image is green and monochrome, at 600 by 300 pixels per eye. That is modest, but enough for text and simple graphics. The glasses are light on the face and, in a dim setting at least, easy to read.

The headline feature is Meeting Flow. The idea: while you sit in a work meeting, the glasses quietly surface what is being discussed, what decisions have been reached, and who has been assigned to do what. Halliday calls the sub-features Thread Tracker, Decision Confirmation, and Commitment Check. Thread Tracker follows the conversation's topics as they shift. Decision Confirmation flags when the group has settled something. Commitment Check notes which action items now have an owner and a deadline.

After the meeting, the glasses produce a transcript and a summary.

This sounds genuinely useful. Whether it works reliably is a different question. AI wearables, devices you wear that run artificial intelligence software, have repeatedly struggled to surface the right information at the right moment. The demo was a product interview, not a real planning session, so a full verdict is not possible yet.

The glasses also handle captioning, real-time translation in over 45 languages, phone calls, and teleprompter cards for speakers. A voice assistant responds to spoken commands, and the four-microphone array handled background noise adequately in testing.

Should you consider buying a pair?

Not yet, for most people. At $599, before any prescription lens costs, this is a significant outlay for a product whose most useful AI features remain unproven in everyday conditions. Halliday says the glasses can accommodate strong prescriptions, including the reviewer's strong correction, but that claim is untested. If you work in back-to-back meetings and struggle to take notes while listening, this is worth watching closely once shipping reviews appear in September. Everyone else can wait.

Preorders are open now with a $10 deposit. That deposit earns a $100 discount off the final price.