TLDR: Brilliant Labs has introduced Halo, a new line of open-source AI-powered smart glasses designed to offer a seamless, intuitive personal AI experience. These ultra-thin glasses feature a private AI agent named Noa, capable of seeing, hearing, and speaking, along with advanced capabilities like long-term memory and “vibe coding” for custom app creation. Priced at $299, Halo glasses are set to ship in late November 2025.
Brilliant Labs, a company led by former Apple employee Bobak Tavangar, has officially launched Halo, a groundbreaking pair of open-source AI smart glasses. Touted as the “world’s thinnest AI glasses,” Halo aims to integrate artificial intelligence into daily life through a discreet and powerful wearable device. The glasses are equipped with a private AI agent named Noa, which can engage in near real-time conversations, leveraging optical sensors and a mic array to understand the user’s environment through sight and sound. This contextual awareness allows Noa to provide highly relevant information and assistance.
One of Halo’s standout features is its fully open-source nature, encompassing both hardware and software. Brilliant Labs emphasizes that this approach empowers developers to create and expand the device’s capabilities, fostering a collaborative ecosystem that benefits all users.
Beyond conversational AI, Halo introduces several innovative functionalities. The “Narrative” feature, a patent-pending technology from Brilliant Labs, provides long-term agentic memory, enabling the AI to recall details from past conversations or observed objects, potentially years or even decades later. Another experimental feature, “Vibe Mode,” allows users to create custom applications for the glasses using natural language voice commands, eliminating the need for traditional coding.
The design of Halo prioritizes wearability, weighing just over 40g and featuring a sleek profile that resembles conventional eyewear. It includes a color display, a low-power optical sensor optimized for AI inference, dual microphones with audio activity detection, a low-power AI processor, and dual bone conduction speakers. Brilliant Labs claims an impressive battery life of up to 14 hours with estimated normal use.
Halo glasses are priced at $299 in Matte Black and will be available for purchase on the Brilliant Labs website. Shipping is slated to begin in late November 2025, with a first-come, first-served model for pre-orders. The AI services for Noa are offered in “Basic” and “Plus” tiers, with the “Basic” tier being free and including slower, cost-optimized Q&A and memory, subject to a daily cap. Pricing for the “Plus” tier, which offers real-time conversational dialogue and memory, will be announced soon.
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Brilliant Labs envisions Halo as an extension of the user’s senses, designed to remember and reason over daily first-person experiences, while incorporating system-level privacy protection measures to keep interactions private by default.
