The $299 Halo smart glasses will remember the names of people you meet

Brilliant Labs’ caller Halo astute glasses measurement conscionable implicit 40 grams. | Image: Brilliant Labs

Startup Brilliant Labs has announced a successor to its $349 open-source Frame astute glasses, which debuted aboriginal past twelvemonth with features similar AI-powered translations and the quality to place what you were looking at. Its caller $299 Halo astute glasses are priced person to Meta’s entry-level Ray-Ban models and travel with upgraded AI capabilities, including much earthy conversations with its Noa multimodal AI cause that tin “understand what it hears and sees wrong its situation and responds with contextually applicable accusation successful real-time.”

They’re available for preorder present (in constricted quantity) done Brilliant Labs’ website successful a benignant akin to Ray-Ban Wayfarers but lone successful a matte achromatic finish. Shipping is expected successful precocious November 2025. For those needing medicine lenses for the Halo, the startup has partnered with SmartBuyGlasses.

Instead of simply relying connected audio cues similar Meta’s wearables, the Halo glasses usage a 0.2-inch colour microOLED show that “projects a retro arcade-style UI” into your peripheral vision. There’s sound, too, but it’s delivered done bone-conduction speakers connected the Halo’s arms for added privacy. Battery beingness is rated astatine up to 14 hours, acknowledgment successful portion to a debased powerfulness camera and an AI spot featuring a dedicated Neural Processing Unit (NPU), and portion somewhat heavier than past year’s Frame glasses, the Halo are inactive comparatively lightweight astatine conscionable implicit 40 grams.

Brilliant Labs says that conversations with its Noa AI cause volition present “feel earthy and intuitive arsenic if speaking with a existent person,” acknowledgment to it delivering contextually applicable accusation based connected your environment. Noa besides has much power implicit the Halo glasses themselves, letting you mute the microphone oregon enactment them to slumber utilizing expanded dependable commands.

For those who find some their representation and eyesight starting to slip, Halo volition utilize Brilliant Labs’ caller “patent-pending agentic representation system” called Narrative that uses information collected from its camera, mics, and interactions to make a “private and personalized cognition base” for you. The startup says Narrative volition let its astute glasses to callback the sanction of idiosyncratic you’ve met erstwhile talking to them again, and adjacent entree details from past conversations.

There’s besides an experimental caller coding diagnostic called Vibe Mode that volition fto you “create customized applications utilizing elemental earthy connection dependable commands.” Noa volition make an app based connected your circumstantial needs, specified arsenic an alternate mapping inferior that’s customized for however you similar to navigate a city, the startup suggests. Instead of having to excavation done an app store and effort respective options until you find an app that champion suits your needs, you tin make 1 connected request that instantly features the circumstantial functionality you need.