2025-01-06 02:00:07| Engadget
Smart glasses are traditionally long on promise, short on delivery, especially at these sorts of consumer electronics shindigs. Theres always a steady stream of companies promising were on the cusp of having our very own Gary-from-Veep attached to our faces before fading away. The weight of promises Halliday has laid upon the table is a sign of braggadocio, but itll take a while before we know if its deserved or not.
Halliday has turned up at CES 2025 in Las Vegas with a pair of eponymous smart glasses filled to the brim with technology. Theres a waveguide display in the right eyecup that will project the equivalent of a 3.5-inch screen into the wearers view. This display is also easy to read in strong light and the company promises the hardware is invisible to onlookers. The company adds the glasses weigh just 35 grams and promise eight hours of battery life on a single charge.
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Theres no outward-facing camera, but Halliday says its product comes with a proactive AI assistant, anticipating your needs before you ask. The glasses have built-in microphones that are listening to your conversations, analyzing them and answering prompts as they come up. If you were to wear one of these in a meeting, say, youd be able to ask the system to produce a summary of said meeting immediately afterward. (And yes, we are curious about the privacy implications of such a system.)
As well as barking instructions to your glasses, the sides are touch sensitive, but its more likely your main mode of interaction will be with the bundled trackpad ring. You should be able to discreetly control what the AI is pumping to your eyes without attracting attention.
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Theres a fairly long list of tasks Halliday says the glasses will be able to grease the wheels for you. As well as listening out for questions in conversation and throwing up answers from the internet, you can use the screen as a hidden teleprompter. It can also translate 40 different languages, offer real-time directions and play music with the accompanying on-screen lyrics.
Of course, none of this is anything but sweet words until weve been able to see how this performs in the real world. Halliday says that pre-orders for the glasses will begin at the end of CES, with shipping starting at some point before March 2025. We dont know the price yet, but the company says itll be between $399 and $499.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/wearables/halliday-promises-its-smart-wayfarers-have-a-proactive-ai-assistant-inside-010007688.html?src=rss
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