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Halliday (DigiWindow) vs Omi in 2026

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

Key differences

On DEPLOY's record, Omi is further along: at the commercial stage versus Halliday (DigiWindow) at the pilot stage, as of 2026.

Omi has the lower recorded price.
Halliday (DigiWindow) is at the pilot stage; Omi at the commercial stage.

Attribute	No image on file Halliday (DigiWindow)View full model page →	Omi View full model page →
Manufacturer	Halliday	Based Hardware
Form factor	wearable	wearable
Maturity	pilot	commercial
Autonomy	—	—
Availability	preorder-openpreorder	shipping-nowshipping
Price	$369-$489 (actual sale price)	$17-$19/month subscription or $89 (actual sale price)
Capability claims	—	—
Brain	—	—
Verified deployments	1Halliday	1Based Hardware
Privacy practices	7third-party-sharing, data-deletion-control, capture-indicator, location-tracking, data-retention, cloud-upload, data-sale	5third-party-sharing, on-device-processing, capture-indicator, data-deletion-control, cloud-upload
Sources on file	12	6

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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.

Omi

Omi, by Based Hardware (founder Nik Shevchenko, San Francisco), is a shipping AI necklace in the ambient-recording 'second brain' category: a small circular orb on a neck lanyard that captures conversations and runs them through GPT-4o for ambient transcription in 25+ languages, auto-summaries and tasks, a searchable memory database, daily recaps, and a 'Brain Map'. It sells for $89 as a consumer unit (about $70 dev) one-time, with a free tier (unlimited on-device transcription plus 1,200 cloud minutes a month) and an optional Omi Unlimited plan from $16 a month; the user owns the device.

It is one of the few genuinely open-hardware entries in the cohort: an MIT-licensed GitHub repo of about 12,700 stars with firmware, apps, and open hardware designs, maintained into 2026. The AI is genuine cloud functionality, not veneer. One significant cap-flag: the aspirational brain-interface and EEG 'reads-your-mind' marketing is not the shipping product, which is audio-only; the BCI module is roadmap with no code, and TechCrunch could not verify it. (Omi is distinct from Friend, Avi Schiffmann's pendant; Shevchenko's device was originally also named Friend and was renamed Omi.)

Common questions

How do Halliday (DigiWindow) and Omi differ?

On DEPLOY's record, Omi is further along: at the commercial stage versus Halliday (DigiWindow) at the pilot stage, as of 2026. Omi has the lower recorded price. Halliday (DigiWindow) is at the pilot stage; Omi at the commercial stage.

What is the difference between Halliday (DigiWindow) and Omi?

Halliday (DigiWindow) and Omi 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 Omi?

Omi 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 Omi?

Halliday (DigiWindow) and Omi each have 1 verified deployment on the DEPLOY registry (confirmed at named sites with primary sources).

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