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Halliday

Shenzhen-based wearable technology startup behind the DigiWindow smart glasses, which project a 3.5-inch MicroLED display directly into the wearer's field of…

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Founded
2021
HQ
Shenzhen, China
Status
private (crowdfunded)

Models

1

Overview

Shenzhen-based wearable technology startup behind the DigiWindow smart glasses, which project a 3.5-inch MicroLED display directly into the wearer's field of view without traditional lens-based AR optics. Founded in 2021 by Carter Hou in partnership with Gyges Labs and contact-lens brand Moody, Halliday debuted at CES 2025 and raised over $3.3M on Kickstarter — the most-funded AI glasses project in Kickstarter history. The 35-gram glasses feature real-time translation in 40 languages, a proactive AI assistant, and a discreet trackpad ring controller, priced at $489.

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Key facts

Founder

Carter Hou

HQ

Shenzhen, China

Product

DigiWindow eye-projected MicroLED display glasses (no camera); $489 retail; 35g

Kickstarter

$3,305,917 pledged — most-funded AI glasses on Kickstarter (Jan 2025)

Partnership

Gyges Labs (DigiWindow tech) + Moody (consumer brand, Asia's largest colored contact lens brand)

Debut event

CES 2025

Financial stage

Early (Kickstarter-funded, shipping March 2025)

Data & sources

News coverage

1

Web sources

5

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Models (1)

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Current platform

Halliday (DigiWindow)

Halliday, founded by Carter Hou, debuted its DigiWindow display glasses at CES 2025. Rather than etching a display into the lens, the roughly 35-gram glasses mount a tiny MicroLED projector, about 3.5 millimeters, on the inside of the upper-right rim to beam a monochrome green virtual display of about 3.5 inches directly at the eye, just above the normal eyeline, with no front-facing camera, control via a touchpad and an optional ring, and a claimed eight-hour battery. The pitch covers real-time translation in 40 languages, notifications, navigation, a Cheat Sheet teleprompter, and a proactive AI agent called Echo Mode, at $489 retail or $369 on Kickstarter, where it raised about $3.31 million from roughly 8,023 backers. The registry records it at pilot maturity, a deliberate cap-flag: it is past pure announcement, with a real device, a hands-on demo, and units reaching some backers, but it was crowdfunded, fulfillment was partial and QC-delayed through 2025, and no broad mainstream review of a generally available retail unit exists, so money raised is not credited as units delivered. On AI substance the proactive-AI claim is the weakest element, since TechCrunch's CES hands-on explicitly reported that the AI was not ready for testing, the only AI-adjacent feature actually demonstrated was cloud translation, and with no camera the device cannot do genuine multimodal scene understanding, so the world's-first-proactive-AI framing is treated as marketing.

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Safety record

No incidents on record for Halliday.

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Halliday in third-party press

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