CES 2025 is in full flow and brands from around the world are populating Las Vegas, Nevada to show off innovation from a diverse selection of consumer tech markets, including my personal favorite: smart glasses.

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.

The Legion Glasses 2 connects to devices through a USB Type-C port that can handle DisplayPort 1.4, turning the glasses into a sleek portable monitor—they cannot be used without

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

Halliday announced its latest Smart Glasses innovation. The wearable technology features a ‘DigiWindow‘—the “world’s smallest and lightest near-eye display module”. The technology is powered by Halliday AI,

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.