I can’t decide if I love or hate Halliday Smart Glasses with its ultra-tiny display and nosey AI

• Halliday smart glasses include a tiny screen and AI.
• They’re supposedly proactive.
• The display is incredibly small – but might not appear that way to your eye.

One of the hottest trends at CES 2025 is wearables, and if we zoom in a bit, we’ll see that the biggest part of that trend is all the new smart glasses. Joining that collection but with a decided twist is Halliday, new “proactive AI eyewear” that seeks to augment your reality with at-a-glance information.

Halliday – named for a key character in Ready, Player One – are 35-gram smart wearable eyeglasses that have the benefit of looking almost exactly like traditional eyewear. However, hidden inside the classic-looking glasses is a fair amount of technology, including an unusual Digi Window microdisplay.

Integrated displays are nothing new in the realm of augmented reality eyewear, but Halliday’s approach is a bit unusual. Where Snap Spectacles and Meta Orion smart glasses employ waveguide technology to paint large portions of the eyeglass lenses with semi-translucent imagery, Halliday uses one of the tiniest displays I have ever seen and does absolutely nothing to the wearable’s lenses.

Developed by Gygeslabs, the Digi Window looks like a tiny, pea-sized display positioned along the upper right side of the frame. In images shared with TechRadar, it appears to be adjustable, letting the wearer move it slightly to better position the DigiWindow for each wearer.

It is a tiny screen that looks like a 3.5-inch monochrome display up close to your eye. Yes, that’s about the same size as the original iPhone. The utility of a tiny screen that must glance up to see is unclear.

The real benefit here, though, may come from combining the Digi Window with AI-powered information that comes not from Halliday Smart Glasses but from the Halliday AI app running on your Android or iPhone.