The best smart glasses at CES 2025 are inconspicuous

CES 2025 was the year of the smart glasses. AR / VR headsets were everywhere. Just when we thought we covered them all – check out our coverage so far on the XREAL One Pro and Chamelo – we'd come across yet another new pair of smart glasses. Each had their own draws and features, things like AR glasses that focused on projecting your computer monitor or smartphone screen and devices made for AI transcription and translation. However, one thing became very clear after seeing all these smart glasses: The smart glass space finally figured out how to make smart glasses look like actual conventional glasses. SEE ALSO: CES 2025: Evenflo's SensorySoothe smart car seat is a calming backseat baby rave Gone are the bulky, thick frames of even just last year. Smart glasses are finally sleek and inconspicuous. We've come a long way from even the geeky design of Google Glasses. The smart glasses of today look stylish. On top of that, these new smart glasses are focusing on more practical use cases. Two great examples of this were the Even Realities G1 and Halliday smart glasses. Both of these products focus on practical AI features like transcription and translation built into AR functionality, even though the way they pull it off are very different. Halliday smart glasses feature lensless display option See that little green dot on the frame, right above the lens on the right? That's the Halliday smart glasses' screen. Credit: Mashable Halliday, for example, has created a new type of AR smart glasses that doesn't project the augmented reality imagery from the lenses. SEE ALSO: The Solos AirGo Vision smart glasses give you access to ChatGPT whenever you need it In fact, you can just pop out the lenses completely and go lensless and the AR functionality will still work. Halliday pulls this off by embedding a little circular screen into the frame, right above the right lens. That way, the user can just wear the glasses as normal and just take a glance over at the screen when they