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The race to get a regular look Display-enabled smart glasses Running. Suddenly, many companies were coming up with ideas, including Google and Samsung Glasses in development For next year. while Meta has viewing glasses Now, they haven’t worked with my prescription yet.
But the Even G2 glasses do. These $599 small-frame glasses from Even Realities also work with a separate $249 fitness ring, the R1, which also doubles as a remote for the glasses.
Even Realities had a previous pair of smart glasses with displays, the Even G1, which I never had a chance to test. The look of the thin frame is so natural that it’s hard to tell they’re smart glasses. The new G2, available now, features a similarly compact frame and includes additional software improvements, including a Conversation Follow mode that attempts to listen and help quickly identify topics.
strange? Absolutely.
I wore the glasses briefly during a beta demo with the founders of Even Realities, and appreciated the large viewing area the glasses provide. It’s only monochrome green, but the small dual LED projectors do a good job of creating a large, readable display and are certainly larger than the single-eye Ray-Ban Display (with higher resolution and color). It’s also somewhat 3D. The rolls appear at different depths.
While I can see a small patch on each lens where the diffractive waveguide picks up the side displays, you can’t see any flare through the glasses, and it’s generally difficult to even see anything on your lens at all. Meta’s Ray-Ban Display glasses do a better job of being nearly invisible, but Even Realities’ approach is close behind.
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Round glasses aren’t my thing, but I’m impressed with how well the Even G2 fits my face.
Aim to be every day
These glasses excel in their wide range of medical support, which goes up to +12.00/-12.00, which means my eyes will be well supported. Don’t worry, I’ll have a pair of prescriptions to test and review soon.
The Even G2 glasses also have about two days of battery life on a single charge, which far exceeds the battery life of other smart glasses I’ve seen. They’re also IP67 water-resistant, and except for the slight bulges at the tips of the arms, the rest of the glasses are shockingly compact compared to the Meta Ray-Bans.
To do this, glasses make some compromises. There are no cameras on board, and no sound either: just microphones and monitors. You can use your earbuds for voice assistance while using the connected phone app. The lack of cameras can be a win for anyone who doesn’t want to feel like a privacy creep.
The $249 discrete ring looks like an important piece of glasses: a side touchpad that controls scrolling through menus and launching apps on demand. It also doubles as a Like Ora Fitness ring, heart rate tracking and health results.
I’m not sure how any of this fitness functionality compares to a standard fitness tracker, but it’s interesting to see glasses-to-fitness tracker connectivity here, and it’s something I expect Meta, Google, and eventually Apple to follow (Meta is already doing some of that with Oakley Vanguards).
You can barely see the waveguide on the lenses.
Artificial intelligence translation, teleprompter and conversation assistant
The glasses’ built-in AI features are also great. Live translation works with 29 languages, and teleprompter mode scrolls notes or speech across the screen, pausing and continuing to match your spoken words. This feature, which was in the first Even Realities movie, is one that CEO Will Wang says has been one of the most popular. Now, added ring support to help with text scrolling should improve these glasses as glasses for live presentations.
Conversation mode listens to the conversation you’re having with someone and starts pulling out interesting words or phrases, highlighting definitions and details that appear on screen as you speak… a sort of live assistant whisper mode. I’m not sure how the function determines what’s important to focus on, and I’m not even sure if I want to use it, but it’s another weird idea to help the AI of glasses.
Even Realities appears to currently be producing the most discreet AI-powered smart glasses for everyday use, which also have the longest battery life. There will be more to come as I test Even G2 with my prescription.