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These AI Smart Glasses Just Blew Away My Favorite Ray-Ban Meta Frames at CES 2025

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Halliday Glasses: Next-gen smart glasses arrive to CES 2025

Smart glasses had an impressive run in 2024, but it seems like 2025 will take these wearables to the next step, with a host of manufacturers looking to add a visual element to their products.

Samsung is one of the companies expected to showcase next-gen glasses like these, potentially at the upcoming Galaxy Unpacked event, rumored to be taking place on January 22.

However, the South Korean tech giants have been beaten to the punch, with the new AI-powered Halliday smart glasses debuting during CES 2025’s Unveiled event.

Halliday’s frames haven’t only beaten Samsung’s to the punch, they also offer a unique display tech I’ve not come across before, a handy wearable accessory for control of the glasses, and make impressive use of AI for seamless integration in everyday situations.

Halliday Glasses: Next-gen smart glasses arrive to CES 2025

The Halliday Glasses are unlike many other smart glasses I’ve come across to date that offer a visual display. Unlike AR glasses, these frames don’t make use of birdbath optics, and, unlike high-level concepts like the Snap Spectacles 5, doesn’t use waveguide lenses.

Instead, the Halliday glasses use a DigiWindow, the world’s smallest near-eye display module positioned on the inside of the frames to beam images (perceived as a 3.5-inch screen) directly into the eye of the wearer, positioned in the upper-right of their vision.

Not only does this allow for improved privacy, with the display not being visible to anybody but the wearer, but the image remains clear even in bright environments, offering the kind of visual stability most of your smart devices can only dream of.

This design is also fairly discrete (not to mention lightweight at only 35 grams) and can be tuned to match different prescriptions by turning a dial. It also means that your physical lenses offer no obstructions, and easily be swapped out for new lenses by your local opticians without any fuss or extra cost.

Not only does this allow for improved privacy, with the display not being visible to anybody but the wearer, but the image remains clear even in bright environments, offering the kind of visual stability most of your smart devices can only dream of.

This design is also fairly discrete (not to mention lightweight at only 35 grams) and can be tuned to match different prescriptions by turning a dial. It also means that your physical lenses offer no obstructions, and easily be swapped out for new lenses by your local opticians without any fuss or extra cost.

The glasses can also capture audio memos, display notifications and offer quick replies, act as a teleprompter or display a cheat sheet to work from, display navigational prompts, show lyrics to music, transcribe conversations and memos, and even offer real-time translation of up to 40 languages.

I’ll be honest, the more I learn about the Halliday Glasses the more I become swayed to make a change from my Ray-Ban Meta daily drivers. While they lack the 12-megapixel camera of my daily frames, it’s probably (for me) one of the least used features of Meta’s glasses, with audio playback and conversing with Meta AI making up most of my interactions.

Halliday’s Proactive AI and invisible display are compelling options for someone like me, and its control ring is a great way to interact with some of the glasses’ features without needing to pull out my phone.

While Meta’s third-generation smart glasses won’t offer the full AR glasses vision of its Orion glasses, they are expected to offer similar functionality, with the added visual context of the frame’s camera for interacting with Meta AI.

That said, the real kicker for me is the Halladay Glasses’ impressive battery life claims. The company states that its smart glasses offer an all-day charge of 12 hours of use (and 100 hours of standby time), which you can top back up to full in only one hour of charge time.

As much as I love my Ray-Ban Metas, their battery life is lacking. Whether Meta can offer a similar level of battery life from its next-gen frames remains to be seen, and Halliday’s claims are something I’d love to put to the test myself when the final product launches.

What’s next?

The Halliday Glasses are currently available for pre-order at the Halliday homepage. Those who pre-order (at $9.90) will be eligible for a limited launch day exclusive of up to $120 on the frames, and gain a free pair of prescription lenses.

The glasses are expected to become available for $399 to $499, with shipping expected to begin by late March.

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