Halliday's G2 Smart Glasses Record Your Meetings. Nobody Else in the Room Will Know.
A new pair of camera-free smart glasses promises to summarise your meetings automatically. The catch: the people being recorded may never find out.
Key points
- Halliday's G2 smart glasses go on sale in September 2026 at $599, with AI subscription plans ranging from free to $99 per month.
- The glasses carry no camera, but their built-in microphones can record conversations continuously and summarise them using an AI transcription service called Meeting Flow.
- The G2 has no indicator light or visual signal to tell people nearby that recording is active.
- Halliday says the responsibility to disclose recording falls entirely on the person wearing the glasses.
- The smart glasses market is still dominated by Meta's Ray-Ban glasses, whose cameras have been misused to photograph people without consent.
Smart glasses that skip the camera sound, on the surface, like a privacy win. No secret photos. No video harvested without permission. Halliday, a small wearables company, is pitching its new G2 glasses on exactly that premise.
But the G2 records audio instead. Constantly, if you want it to.
The glasses look ordinary enough for a boardroom. They cost $599. First shipments are planned for September 2026. A free tier gives users 120 minutes of recording time, and paid plans reach up to $99 per month for heavier use.
The built-in microphones feed into Halliday's AI transcription service, called Meeting Flow, which listens to a conversation, organises the key points, and pushes brief summaries onto a small display inside the lens. After the meeting, the wearer gets a full transcript and a structured breakdown of decisions and commitments in a companion app.
Useful, clearly. But here is the part worth pausing on.
The glasses carry no indicator light. No blinking LED. No audible tone. Nothing that tells your colleague, your client, or the person sitting across the table that their words are being captured and processed by an AI system.
Wearable recorder Bee's Pioneer, a small clip-on device, does emit a light when recording. The Halliday G2 does not. When asked about this, a Halliday spokesperson told Wired AI that disclosure is the wearer's job: "The user should disclose to the room that the recording is in progress, as it is required by any other recording device."
That is true as written. It is also easy to ignore.
Halliday's first glasses, shown at CES 2025, received mixed reviews and landed in Wired's "Don't Bother" category. The G2 is the company's attempt at a second impression, aimed at what Halliday calls "high-performance professionals," including founders and executives willing to spend $600 on a meeting tool.
The camera-free angle matters for a real reason. Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses, which currently lead the market, earned the informal label "pervert glasses" after people used their built-in cameras to photograph strangers, including women, without being noticed. Rival companies have since offered lens covers or dropped cameras entirely. Halliday and Even Realities, a competitor that launched its own camera-free glasses late last year, both follow that path.
The two companies also share something else: both call their latest model the G2. Even Realities launched first and built its reputation specifically on the no-camera promise. The name clash and similar positioning are unlikely to go unnoticed.
Should ordinary people in meetings be worried?
Yes, in a practical sense, and the concern is simple. If a colleague wears the G2 into a meeting, you have no way to know recording is happening unless they tell you. Halliday puts that duty entirely on the wearer, with no hardware backup.
If you are regularly in sensitive meetings, such as HR conversations, legal discussions, or client negotiations, it is reasonable to ask whether recording devices are present before you begin. That question now includes glasses.
Watch for:
- Colleagues wearing smart glasses in meetings where sensitive topics come up.
- No LED or indicator light does not mean no recording is happening.
- In many places, recording a conversation without consent from all parties is illegal. Check the rules for your area before assuming disclosure is optional.
