Caine Ardayfio and AnhPhu Nguyen founded Halo, a roughly 11-person startup building Halo X, always-recording smart glasses with a lens display that answers spoken questions. The glasses use built-in microphones to listen to the environment and run processing through the user’s phone. Halo X will be powered by Google's Gemini and Perplexity large language models and will not include a camera in the first model. The device will offer transcription, summaries, and task extrapolation similar to other always-on wearables; an app is available in beta through Even Realities. A custom pair is planned for Q1 2026, priced around $300–$500.
Former Harvard students Caine Ardayfio and AnhPhu Nguyen this week announced Halo, a startup of roughly 11 people working to develop always-recording smart glasses. The pair dropped out of Harvard to develop Halo X, smart glasses with a display on the lens that can answer any question someone asks. Powered by a combination of Google's Gemini and Perplexity large language models, the idea is that these glasses will always be listening to the world around you via the built-in microphones
If someone asks, "What's the capital of Peru?" just look at the display on the glasses, and you'll be able to see the answer. At least that's the idea. The processing will still run from your phone. "We're trying to build smart glasses that make people super intelligent," Ardayfio tells WIRED. If you have a pair of smart glasses from Even Realities, you can give the startup's Halo app a spin (it's in beta).
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