Halliday’s latest smart glasses feature a much-improved display - The Verge

What the report says

The Verge reports that Halliday has introduced its Gen 2 smart glasses, a $599 pair of camera-less audio glasses aimed primarily at making workplace meetings easier to follow. In a hands-on article published July 21, 2026, Victoria Song said the new model is a significant improvement over Halliday’s first-generation glasses, which she found difficult and uncomfortable to use during a CES 2025 demo.

The main hardware change is the move away from a small movable display window in the frame to more conventional waveguide displays, one for each eye. According to The Verge, the monochrome green displays are rated at up to 1,600 nits, with 600-by-300-pixel resolution per eye. Song said the glasses felt lightweight and the display was visible in a dark bar, though she had not tested them in direct sunlight. Halliday also said the glasses can get about 12 hours of typical use.

Halliday is positioning the product around a new Meeting Flow feature, which uses AI to show relevant context, track discussion topics, identify decisions, and flag follow-up commitments during meetings. The glasses are also said to support captions, real-time translation for more than 45 languages, calls, teleprompter-style notes, and voice control through Halliday’s AI assistant.

The Verge notes that the absence of a camera was intentional, both for privacy and battery life. Still, the article expresses caution about whether the AI meeting tools will reliably identify useful information or action items. Preorders opened with a $10 deposit and a $100 discount on the final price, with shipping expected in September.