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.
- No indicator light or audible signal tells anyone 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. Halliday, a small wearables company, is pitching its new G2 glasses on exactly that premise.
The G2 records audio instead. Constantly, if you want it to.
At $599, the glasses are ordinary enough to pass unnoticed in a boardroom. First shipments are planned for September 2026. A free tier gives users 120 minutes of recording time; paid plans go up to $99 per month.
Built-in microphones feed into Meeting Flow, Halliday's AI transcription service, which listens, organises 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.
Nothing signals to anyone in the room that recording has started. Wearable recorder Bee's Pioneer emits a light when active. The Halliday G2 does not. When asked about this, a Halliday spokesperson told Wired AI: "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's 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 targets what the company calls "high-performance professionals," founders and executives willing to spend $600 on a meeting tool.
The camera-free angle has a genuine backstory. Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses, which lead the market, picked up the "pervert glasses" label after their built-in cameras were used to photograph strangers without consent. We reported on that pattern on 17 July in "AI Smart Glasses Can Record Strangers Without Any Warning. Here Is What You Should Know." Rival companies have since offered lens covers or dropped cameras entirely, including Even Realities and now Halliday.
Both companies share something else: both call their latest model the G2. Even Realities launched first and built its reputation on the no-camera promise. The name overlap and near-identical positioning will not go unnoticed.
The thing worth saying plainly here is that removing the camera did not remove the consent problem. It just moved it from your image to your words, which in many jurisdictions are just as protected. A covert audio recording in a two-party-consent state carries real legal exposure for the wearer, not the company.
Should ordinary people in meetings be worried?
Yes, and the concern is straightforward. 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.
Our earlier story on Zoom's name-based AI note-taker blocking showed how thin those disclosure norms already are in digital meeting rooms. Physical rooms just got the same problem in a different frame.
If you are regularly in sensitive meetings, 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 visible indicator light does not mean no recording is happening.
- In many places, recording without consent from all parties is illegal. Check the rules for your area before assuming disclosure is optional.
