Walk up to someone wearing a pair of Halliday's smart glasses, and you might not notice they're looking at smartphone notifications, live language

But it’s the proactive AI aspect of the Halliday glasses that appears to be the true selling point. The glasses can analyze conversations you’re having and answer questions or

A new wearable startup claims it has created the world's first proactive AI smart glasses and that it can work with any lenses.

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. But the tech has been improving steadily over time.

Smart glasses makers are promising lightweight, stylish frames with limited features that should offer an alternative to bulkier mixed-reality headsets now on the market.