Halliday has introduced the G2, a pair of camera-free AI glasses built to display captions, summaries, research notes, reminders, and meeting details within the wearer’s field of view.
The glasses are expected to retail for $599, with first shipments planned for September 2026. Reservations are open through Halliday’s website with a $10 deposit, which secures a $100 discount on the final price. Prescription lens options will be offered.
A Brighter Binocular Display
The Halliday G2 replaces the company’s earlier DigiWindow system with a binocular waveguide display powered by two micro-LED projectors.
Each eye receives a 600 x 300 image, with peak brightness rated at up to 1,600 nits. Information appears in the upper portion of the wearer’s view, allowing users to glance at a card without fully shifting their attention away from a conversation.
The display can dim itself in darker rooms. Halliday has paired that feature with a Stealth mode designed to reduce visible light from the lenses during dinners, presentations, and other low-light situations where glowing eyewear might draw the wrong kind of attention.
Halliday is targeting a weight below 50 grams. The company rates typical battery life at more than 12 hours, though real-world endurance will depend on display brightness, calls, music playback, and AI use.
A four-microphone array supports voice recognition at distances of up to two meters.
Meeting Flow Keeps Track of the Room
The centerpiece of the G2 experience is Meeting Flow, a set of tools intended for people who spend much of their day in meetings, interviews, sales calls, and project discussions.
Live Caption and Translation can display spoken dialogue in real time, with support for more than 45 languages. Quick Summary is meant to help someone catch up after losing the thread, while Quick Research can surface supporting information during a conversation.
Thread Tracker follows how a discussion changes over time. Decision Confirmation and Commitment Check identify decisions, unresolved questions, assigned tasks, deadlines, and owners before everyone leaves the room and forgets who volunteered for what.
After a meeting, the Halliday companion app can produce a transcript, summary, list of commitments, and open-item tracker. Halliday says future Flow updates will add deeper awareness of users’ projects, contacts, decisions, and previous conversations.
Those later features remain company plans rather than shipping capabilities, and Halliday has not detailed which functions may require a subscription.
No Camera, by Design
Halliday has left a camera off the G2, positioning the glasses as a workplace-friendly alternative to camera-equipped smart eyewear.
That choice may make the G2 easier to use in offices, client meetings, health care settings, and other spaces where recording devices raise privacy concerns. It also removes photo and video capture, which remains one of the most familiar uses for competing smart glasses.
The G2 still handles phone calls, music, notifications, dashboard cards, and questions through the Halliday AI Assistant. Users can control the glasses through a frame-mounted touchpad, an assignable action button, a power button, or the “Hey Halliday” wake phrase.
A Cheatsheet feature works as a small teleprompter, keeping notes or speaking prompts visible during presentations. This could prove useful for anyone who has ever tried to glance at a phone beneath a conference table with all the subtlety of a raccoon opening a trash can.
At $599, the Halliday G2 sits firmly in premium territory. Its appeal will likely rest on how smoothly Meeting Flow works in real conversations and how comfortable the display remains across a full workday.
