Brilliant Labs launched Halo Glasses on 27 October, priced at $399, a privacy-first, open-source pair of AI smartglasses built around the Noa companion and a new adaptive game called Narrative.
Brilliant Labs launched Halo Glasses on 27 October, priced at $399 and available at brilliant.xyz, describing them as a new generation of privacy-first smartglasses. The glasses are built on a fully open-source hardware and software foundation, with an AI companion called Noa that builds long-term memory around what matters to each user and responds conversationally in real time.
The hardware weighs just over 40 grams and is designed for all-day wear, with a full-colour microOLED display, microphones, bone conduction speakers, optical-grade lenses, Bluetooth 5.3, on-device AI and up to 14 hours of battery life. Halo's low-resolution image sensor gives it visual context without functioning as a traditional camera for photography or video. Its three core experiences are Ask, talking to Noa as a personal assistant; Make, building mini-apps and custom workflows using just your voice; and Play, through a flagship adaptive game called Narrative that turns everyday moments into an open-world game that evolves with each player.
The privacy design is central to the launch. Core functionality runs locally whenever possible, and the company says raw audio and images are processed on the device and then discarded rather than stored. Chief executive Bobak Tavangar told The Deep View that all rich media captured by Halo is processed locally on the device and tossed right after the model inference happens, so that neither Brilliant Labs nor the model, nor even the user, can access it afterwards.
The company's release confirms the launch date, the $399 price, the Noa companion, the Narrative game and the hardware specifications, while The Deep View corroborates the price, weight, battery life and the local-processing claim through its interview with Tavangar. Privacy-first here is the company's design claim rather than an independently audited guarantee, and this story reports it as such: the glasses are designed to delete raw media after processing, not proven by an outside audit to do so in every case.
The launch comes as smart glasses face a backlash over cameras and data collection, a context The Deep View notes in contrasting Halo with Meta's glasses without cameras. Halo is aimed less at mainstream buyers than at wearables enthusiasts, AI experimenters and professionals who want control over their AI stack, according to The Deep View's assessment, and the company says Halo is already being used by organisations in technology, medical, agriculture, manufacturing and aerospace settings. By open-sourcing the hardware and software and disclosing component details, Brilliant Labs is inviting developers to extend, remix and shape the platform rather than treating it as a closed product.
Whether that openness translates into a lasting platform will depend on whether developers build for Halo and whether buyers accept a low-resolution visual sensor and a game-led pitch in place of a conventional camera. The glasses are on sale now, so early sales and developer uptake will provide the first real test of the company's bet.