New startup Halliday showcased its eponymous smart glasses at a pre-CES 2025 event, boasting they feature waveguide display technology positioned for the right eye, allowing users to view real-time information through a 3.5-inch projected screen.
Halliday itself weighs only 35 grams and has a battery life of up to 8 hours on a single charge. The glasses are not equipped with an external camera lens, but can use artificial intelligence assistant services through the built-in microphone, and the interactive results are projected in front of the right eye through optical waveguide display technology and presented on a 3.5-inch projection screen.
In addition to interacting through projected images and understanding questions through artificial intelligence to find relevant answers through the Internet, these glasses can also translate 40 languages in real time, or allow users to use the glasses as an alternative "prompter". They can also display real-time information or song lyrics.
Halliday explained that the projected image, thanks to the waveguide display technology, can only be viewed by the wearer, preventing others from seeing it, thus eliminating any privacy concerns. Furthermore, while the device lacks a camera that can capture images from the front, it also avoids the intrusion of an obtrusive camera lens that could cause inconvenience to others.
As for the operation part, in addition to interacting through voice control, Halliday can also be operated by touch on the side of the glasses frame, and even through a paired ring accessory with touch function to interact with the content projected by the glasses.
The Halliday will be available for pre-order through Kickstarter, with shipments expected to begin as early as March of this year. The suggested retail price for the Halliday is $3 USD, with an early bird price of $489 USD, and pre-orders are also available for $369 USD.
