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 are supposed to be proactive.
• The display is incredibly small – but it might not seem so to your eye.

One of the hottest trends in CES 2025 it is wearable, and if we zoom in a little, we will 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 glasses” that seek to increase your reality with information at a glance.

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

Built-in displays are nothing new in the realm of augmented reality glasses, 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 lenses of the lenses with semi-translucent images, Halliday uses one of the tiniest screens I’ve ever seen and does absolutely nothing to the lenses of the wearable .

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

It is a small screen that looks like a 3.5 inch monochrome display close to the eye. Yes, it is about the same size as Original iPhone. The usefulness of a small screen that you have to look at to see is not clear.

The real benefit here, however, 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.