Halliday · Glasses · Ranked #5

Halliday G2

Name: Halliday G2
Brand: Halliday
Price: 599 USD
Availability: InStock

Halliday G2 is camera-free meeting glasses with a four-mic array and a display recap, held back by a 2 m pickup claim, no recording light, and $599 frames.

Scores

6.6out of 10scored 2026-09-16 · How scores are built

Shipping · $599 · Starter 120 min, or Basic $9.90/mo · Manufacturer page

Why this total. Axes are 0–10 in half points; Contributes is score × weight.
Axis	Weight	Score	Contributes	Reasoning
Capture	23%	6.5	1.50	The Halliday G2's four-microphone array is specified to 2 m, enough for a table, with no published figure for a larger room or wind.
Intelligence	17%	8.0	1.36	The Halliday G2 runs Meeting Flow on the glasses — live captions, thread tracking and a post-meeting recap — plus a display assistant, without published connectors into other tools.
Privacy	16%	6.0	0.96	The Halliday G2 is camera-free and the mics start only when you turn them on, but it has no recording light for bystanders, and Meeting Flow is a credited cloud service.
Battery	14%	5.5	0.77	Halliday quotes 12 hours of regular use from a 210 mAh cell, so the G2 is a daily-charge frame, and the figure is not a continuous-capture rating.
Wearability	12%	8.0	0.96	The Halliday G2 is 49 g, with a temple action button and a 73 mm touch bar, so you invoke Meeting Flow on the face without unlocking a phone.
Look	7%	8.5	0.60	The Halliday G2 is a camera-free spectacle frame that takes prescription lenses; WIRED called them normal-ish looking glasses meant to blend in, so they read as glasses in a room rather than a recorder, short of jewellery because the waveguide sits in the lens.
Value	11%	4.0	0.44	The Halliday G2 is $599, with about 120 free Meeting Flow minutes a month, then Basic at $9.90/mo — glasses money for a 2 m microphone array.
Total	100%	—	6.6	Weighted sum. See how scores are built.

Halliday G2 6.6/10

Specifications

Halliday G2 — specifications. A figure the manufacturer does not publish is printed as Not published, not guessed.
Cost
Price	$599
Plan	Starter 120 min, or Basic $9.90/mo
Year-one on the encoded plan	$717.8 if you pay for twelve months of the encoded plan. Not the ranking column.
Capture
Microphones	4
Capture mode	Press to record
Audio out	Speaker
Battery (active capture)	12 h — Halliday quotes 12 hours of regular use from a 210 mAh cell, not a continuous-capture rating.
Speech recognition	Cloud
Language model	Cloud
Body
Form factor	Glasses
Weight	49 g
Materials	Not published
Charging case	No
Recording indicator	No
Connectivity	Bluetooth, Wi-Fi
Companion app	iOS, Android
Data export	No

What works

Four-microphone array specified to 2 m, with live captions and a post-meeting recap in the lens
Camera-free frames, 49 g, with a temple action button so you invoke Flow on the face
Open-ear speakers, Bluetooth 5.4 and iOS plus Android
A free Starter tier covers about 120 Meeting Flow minutes a month

What does not

Two metres is a table, not a room, and Halliday publishes no wind or far-field figure beyond that
No recording indicator; Halliday told WIRED wearers should disclose recording themselves
$599, then Basic at $9.90/mo after a launch year of Basic included
Twelve hours of regular use, not a continuous-capture rating, from a 210 mAh cell

Halliday G2 is the pair of glasses in this ranking whose advertised job is the meeting, not the photo. Dual micro-LED waveguides sit in the lens. A four-microphone array is specified to two metres. Meeting Flow captions, tracks threads and files a recap when you leave the room. Non-prescription Batch 1 began shipping on 15 September 2026; Batch 2 is listed as three business days after the order. That is why this page is marked shipping. Prescription pairs still quote four to six weeks.

It is ranked because it ships, and because capturing speech is the product. It does not rank near the cards. Two metres is not five. $599 is not $189.

What it is

A 49 g camera-free frame: 4-mic array, open-ear speaker array, 73 mm right-temple touch bar, action button, Bluetooth 5.4 with LE Audio, 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi for updates, IP54, 210 mAh, magnetic charge. Halliday publishes those figures on the product page and the design page. It does not publish housing material as a spec chip, a continuous-capture hour figure, or a file-export path, so those fields are omitted rather than guessed.

The box lists a premium case, a cloth, a magnetic charging cable and the app. The case is a glasses case with a cable, not a battery pack that holds extra charges, so this page does not mark a charging case.

You turn the mics on for a meeting, a voice command or a call; Halliday says they switch off when not in use. That is press-to-record in this ranking’s terms, even if the control is a temple tap rather than a clip button. Live translation is listed at 45+ languages. Everyday functions — Halliday AI, translation, notifications, music and calls — are unlimited on every plan. Meeting Flow and post-meeting summary draw credits.

Plans: Starter is free, about 120 Meeting Flow minutes (200 credits). Basic is $9.90/month for 400 credits, about 240 Flow minutes. Pro is $19.90. Max is $99. Launch orders include a year of Basic. This page encodes Basic at $9.90/month as the named paid SKU beside the free starter, the same way other pages encode an optional plan rather than a cover charge. The launch year of Basic is a promo, noted in the body, not encoded as $0 forever.

List price is $599. Launch codes take that to $549. This page uses $599, the published MSRP on the product page.

Living with it

The interesting hardware is the microphones plus the display. Captions and a running sense of who decided what appear in the lens while you are still in the room. That is more of an on-body assistant than a card that recaps after you unlock a phone. Intelligence in this ranking still wants connectors into other tools; Halliday does not publish those, so this is an 8 rather than a 9.

Capture is the other number. Four mics and “every seat at the table” is a real claim. Two metres is 6.6 feet. The Plaud Note Pro publishes five metres and a voice-pickup unit. A 2 m specification is a small meeting, not a boardroom, and there is no wind figure. 6.5 is the score that sentence produces.

Look is the glasses argument. Halliday G2 takes prescription lenses. There is no camera housing. WIRED called them normal-ish looking glasses meant to blend into a professional environment. A waveguide still sits in the lens, so this is not jewellery. 8.5 is the score that sentence produces.

Privacy is the miss people will feel in the room. WIRED asked whether bystanders get a light. Halliday’s answer was that wearers should disclose recording themselves. Camera-free is a genuine improvement on Meta-class frames, and the mics start only when you turn them on. It is not a recording indicator. Meeting Flow is a credited cloud service, even where Halliday says conversation context stays on the device. Choose-and-delete is documented. File export of audio or transcripts is not, so export is listed as absent. 6 is the score that sentence produces.

Battery is 12 hours of regular use. That is a working day of glasses, not Bee’s week of always-on capture, and not a measured recording-hour figure. This page uses 12 hours with that caveat.

Who it is for

Someone who already wears glasses, sits at tables rather than rooms, and wants captions in the lens more than a file they can hand to a lawyer. If the job is far-field capture, a bystander light, or hardware that does not cost spectacle money, look at the Plaud Note Pro or the Bee Pioneer. Halliday G2 is the meeting glasses, scored as glasses.

Briefing

Sources

Specifications and scores on this page are checkable against the citations below. A figure the manufacturer does not publish is omitted or printed as Not published, not guessed.