There is a new A pair of cameraless smart glasses in the city: the Halliday G2, designed for listening to workplace meetings, absorbing what’s happening and summarizing all the interesting parts, as if they were always-listening wearable devices. Halliday says the microphones can be turned on for meetings, using AI voice commands, or making phone
In recent years, several technology executives have told us that glasses could be the next big interface for consumer hardware. And yet, today’s smart glasses rely heavily on phones, even if they have good hardware. Even Realities’ G2 smart glasses are in the same boat. They’re a premium pair of glasses with a neon-style front
Meta and Snap launched new smart glasses last month, the latest sign that the industry is racing to put a camera and AI assistant on users’ faces. As the fast-growing market heats up, startups like Even Realities are closing in on the giants. Even Realities, a three-year-old Shenzhen-based startup, has raised $150 million in a
Chris Harrison, director of the Future Interfaces Group at Carnegie Mellon University, doesn’t think the new subscription will help pay for Meta’s AI spending. “The industry has made enormous strides, even in the last six months, but certainly in the last 18 months, improving the efficiency of token generation and running these models much more
Every time I’ve written about Meta’s AI-enabled glasses, I invariably get asked these questions: Why do you even want these? Why do you want smart glasses that can play music or misidentify native flora in a weirdly cheery voice? I am a lifelong Ray-Ban Wayfarer wearer, and I’m also WIRED’s resident Meta wearer. I grab