{"id":"70e5c7f9-4f1a-4515-ac9b-8092647f7d2a","companyId":"6dbfff20-de72-45cf-849e-a7864e36eda7","modelName":"Halliday (DigiWindow)","slug":"halliday-glasses","description":"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.","formFactor":"wearable","maturityStage":"pilot","lifecycleState":"active","supersededByModelId":null,"specs":{"notes":[{"label":"Verified","value":"Halliday (founder Carter Hou) debuted at CES 2025. Its DigiWindow projects a small display directly at the eye from a tiny rim-mounted MicroLED module (no front camera). Real-time translation was demonstrated hands-on. Kickstarter (Jan 22-Mar 8 2025): ~8,023 backers, ~$3.31M raised."},{"label":"Maturity = pilot (cap-flag)","value":"Past pure announced/research (real device, hands-on, units reached some backers), but Kickstarter-funded with partial, QC-delayed fulfillment through 2025 and no broad mainstream review of a generally-available retail unit. PILOT, not commercial. Money raised is not units delivered."},{"label":"AI-substance: VENEER","value":"The 'proactive AI' claim is the weakest-verified element: TechCrunch's CES hands-on explicitly states the AI ('Echo Mode') 'was not ready for testing yet.' The only AI-adjacent feature actually demonstrated was cloud translation; with no camera, multimodal scene-understanding is not physically possible. 'World's 1st proactive AI glasses' is marketing."},{"label":"Claimed but NOT verified","value":"Echo Mode / proactive AI working as marketed (not testable at reveal); general retail availability of a fully-fulfilled QC-clean product; 8-hour battery in real use; 40-language accuracy beyond one staged demo; funding beyond crowdfunding; leadership beyond founder Carter Hou."}],"specs":"Halliday glasses + DigiWindow: ~35g conventional frames; DigiWindow = a ~3.5mm MicroLED projector on the inside of the upper-right rim beaming a monochrome green ~3.5-inch virtual display above the eyeline (not a lens waveguide); NO front camera; touchpad + optional ring controller; ~8hr claimed battery. Features: real-time translation (40 languages, demoed), notifications, navigation, 'Cheat Sheet' teleprompter, 'proactive AI' Echo Mode. $489 retail / $369 Kickstarter.","formFactor":"wearable (display glasses with eye-projected MicroLED module; NO camera; AI-positioned)"},"manufacturerSerial":null,"reviewStatus":"reviewed","sources":[{"url":"https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/03/hallidays-489-smart-glasses-beam-a-tiny-screen-to-your-eye/","title":"Halliday $489 glasses beam a tiny screen to your eye; AI feature NOT ready to test","sourceName":"TechCrunch"},{"url":"https://9to5google.com/2025/01/halliday-smart-glasses-hands-on/","title":"Hands-on: Halliday glasses project a display on your eye (DigiWindow)","sourceName":"9to5Google"},{"url":"https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/halliday/halliday-1st-proactive-ai-glasses-with-invisible-display","title":"Halliday Kickstarter (~8,023 backers, ~$3.31M; #1 'proactive AI glasses')","sourceName":"Kickstarter"},{"url":"https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/01/halliday-proactive-ai-smart-glasses/","title":"Halliday proactive-AI smart glasses for $369+ (crowdfunding)","sourceName":"CNX-Software"}],"aliases":["Halliday glasses","Halliday DigiWindow"],"collisionRisk":"low","reviewNote":null,"manufacturerTermForTeleop":null,"createdAt":"2026-06-03T19:52:29.917Z","updatedAt":"2026-06-03T19:52:29.917Z","jsonLd":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Product","@id":"https://registry.deploy.report/models/halliday-glasses","url":"https://registry.deploy.report/models/halliday-glasses","name":"Halliday (DigiWindow)","alternateName":["Halliday glasses","Halliday DigiWindow"],"description":"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.","identifier":"70e5c7f9-4f1a-4515-ac9b-8092647f7d2a","category":"wearable","publisher":{"@id":"https://deploy.report/#organization"}}}