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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
On DEPLOY's record, Hey Pocket is further along: at the commercial stage versus Halliday (DigiWindow) at the pilot stage, as of 2026.
- Hey Pocket has the lower recorded price.
- Halliday (DigiWindow) is at the pilot stage; Hey Pocket at the commercial stage.
| Attribute | No image on file | No image on file |
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Halliday | Open Vision Engineering (Hey Pocket) |
| Form factor | wearable | wearable |
| Maturity | pilot | commercial |
| Autonomy | — | — |
| Availability | preorder-openpreorder | shipping-nowshipping |
| Price | $369-$489 (actual sale price) | $99-$199 (actual sale price) |
| Capability claims | — | — |
| Brain | — | — |
| Verified deployments | 1Halliday | 1Open Vision Engineering (Hey Pocket) |
| Privacy practices | 7third-party-sharing, data-deletion-control, capture-indicator, location-tracking, data-retention, cloud-upload, data-sale | 9cloud-upload, training-data-use, third-party-sharing, bystander-recording, data-deletion-control, data-sale, data-retention, location-tracking, data-deletion-control |
| Sources on file | 12 | 7 |
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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.
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