Halliday is not chasing another face-mounted camera. Its second-generation G2 smart glasses put the display above the meeting table: captions, translation, decisions and action-item reminders appear near the top of the lenses while the camera is removed entirely.
The glasses were announced on July 21 at $599. Buyers can reserve them with a $10 deposit and receive $100 off the final purchase, with first shipments planned for September 2026. The pitch is less a phone on your face than a meeting prompt screen you glance at for a few seconds.
No video, just the meeting
The core feature is Meeting Flow. It offers live captions, translation in more than 45 languages, quick lookup, topic tracking, decision confirmation and commitment checks, then sends transcripts and summaries to the companion app after the meeting.
The Verge saw the more concrete workflow: Thread Tracker can show how a meeting moved from budget to staffing to timelines; Decision Confirmation pulls out conclusions; Commitment Check checks whether an action item has an owner and a deadline.
That is narrower than the old promise that AI glasses would replace the phone, but it is also easier to test. The common meeting failure is not a lack of video. It is missed words, unclear ownership and forgotten follow-ups.
Privacy is still the hard part
Removing the camera is the clearest difference. WIRED notes that camera glasses such as Meta Ray-Bans have already raised abuse concerns, while Even Realities also made camera-free design central to its own G2 glasses.
Audio still creates a privacy problem. The glasses use microphones for meeting capture, and WIRED noted that there is no indicator light telling people nearby that audio is being recorded. A Halliday media contact told WIRED:
The user should disclose to the room that the recording is in progress, as it is required by any other recording device.
That puts the boundary back on the wearer. For companies, the question is not only hardware design. It is consent, retention, export controls and who can read the transcript.
The display finally looks usable
The first Halliday glasses struggled with display comfort. The Verge's Victoria Song said the original tiny window was hard to line up and left her eyes sore after a CES 2025 demo. G2 moves to binocular waveguides, with one display per eye.
The listed specs are more concrete: 600 x 300 resolution per eye, up to 1,600 nits brightness, a four-microphone array, roughly 12 hours of typical use, and voice pickup around two meters according to QbitAI. This is not an AR headset. The bet is the quick upward glance during a meeting.
A narrow but testable route
Recent AI hardware is splitting into smaller jobs. OASIS is betting on quiet voice input, Moonix on lightweight memory glasses, and Halliday on live meeting assistance. The real contest is not model size. It is how people hand intent and context to AI when a phone or keyboard is awkward.
The next checks are specific: whether Meeting Flow stays useful after first shipments in September, whether AI reliably separates decisions from discussion, and whether companies accept audio glasses with no recording light.
Sources: QbitAI, The Verge, WIRED, CocoLoop, Halliday public materials; checked announcement timing, $599 price, $10 deposit, $100 preorder discount, 600 x 300 per-eye resolution, 1,600-nit brightness, 45-language translation, 12-hour battery claim, recording-disclosure position and September shipment plan.