There's a new pair of smart glasses on the block, and although they come with a built-in display, they're nothing like Google's failed glasses of yore. At CES 2025's CES Unveiled event on Sunday, Shenzhen-based wearable technology startup Halliday unveiled the Halliday Glasses, a $489 pair of spectacles with a tiny screen embedded in the frame.

Halliday's AI-equipped smart glasses offer a way to view information discreetly, by hiding a tiny screen that only the wearer can see.

The wearables sector may have slowed down in recent years as tech companies shift focus towards AI, but Shenzhen-based company Halliday is reviving the trend. At CES 2025, the brand

The problem with a lot of smart glasses and headsets is that it isn’t always designed with users with prescription glasses in mind. Halliday is challenging that narrative with its new smart glasses that the company unveiled at CES 2025.

Most recent attempts at smart glasses have either forgone a display entirely, like Meta Ray-Bans, or tried methods that don’t work particularly well. One example of that was from Brilliant Labs, which had a prism projection system that had far too narrow a field of view in our testing.