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Halliday (DigiWindow) vs Hey Pocket in 2026

Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.

Key differences

  • Hey Pocket has the lower recorded price.
  • Halliday (DigiWindow) is at the pilot stage; Hey Pocket at the commercial stage.
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ManufacturerHallidayOpen Vision Engineering (Hey Pocket)
Form factorwearablewearable
Maturitypilotcommercial
Autonomy——
Availabilitypreorder-openpreordershipping-nowshipping
Price$369-$489 (actual sale price)$99-$199 (actual sale price)
Capability claims——
Brain——
Verified deployments1Global1Global
Privacy practices7third-party-sharing, data-deletion-control, capture-indicator, location-tracking, data-retention, cloud-upload, data-sale9cloud-upload, training-data-use, third-party-sharing, bystander-recording, data-deletion-control, data-sale, data-retention, location-tracking, data-deletion-control
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Editorial summaries

Halliday (DigiWindow)

The Halliday glasses are display-first AI glasses built around DigiWindow: a roughly 3.5mm MicroLED projector on the inside of the upper-right rim that beams a monochrome green ~3.5-inch virtual display above the eyeline (a projection, not a lens waveguide), in ~35-gram conventional frames with no front camera, a touchpad, and an optional ring controller. Features include real-time translation (40 languages, demoed), notifications, navigation, a 'Cheat Sheet' teleprompter, and a 'proactive AI' Echo Mode. DEPLOY records it at pilot maturity: it launched via Kickstarter ($369 backer price, $489 retail) rather than full retail shipping. Its differentiator is the eye-projected display plus proactive AI, not eye-tracking (no eye-tracking is on record), and it has no camera. Cap-flag: the AI features and translation are demonstrated, and the ~8-hour battery is a vendor claim; verified shipping at scale is not yet established.

Hey Pocket

Hey Pocket, by Open Vision Engineering (San Francisco, a Y Combinator W26 company; CEO Akshay Narisetti previously built Omi), is a screenless AI voice recorder and 'thought companion'. The 52-gram device works standalone and MagSafe-attaches to the back of a phone, with dual studio microphones plus a contact microphone for calls and on-device storage, running multi-model cloud AI (routing across GPT-5, Claude, and Gemini) for transcription in 120+ languages, summaries, mind maps, action items, and an Ask-Pocket Q&A feature. It sells for $99 at launch against a $199 regular price, with a free core and, distinctively, no subscription required (an optional Pocket Pro plan is $19.99 a month). DEPLOY records it at commercial maturity: a real, shipping product (live iOS and Android apps), not vaporware, and its AI substance is genuine. The editorial throughline is the no-subscription-core posture, a direct contrast to subscription-required rivals like Plaud.

Common questions

What is the difference between Halliday (DigiWindow) and Hey Pocket?
Halliday (DigiWindow) and Hey Pocket are both wearable robots on the DEPLOY registry. They differ in maker, maturity, price, verified deployments, and how much of their autonomy is independently verified. See the table above for the full head-to-head; each figure is sourced.
Which is cheaper, Halliday (DigiWindow) or Hey Pocket?
Hey Pocket has the lower recorded price on the DEPLOY registry than Halliday (DigiWindow). Prices are sourced; see each record for whether the figure is a manufacturer target, an estimate, or an actual sale price.
Which has more verified deployments, Halliday (DigiWindow) or Hey Pocket?
Halliday (DigiWindow) and Hey Pocket each have 1 verified deployment on the DEPLOY registry (confirmed at named sites with primary sources).

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