I’ve tested several AI smart glasses in 2025, but these are the only ones I’d confidently wear

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Even Realities unveiled its new sensible glasses with a number of surprises and key upgrades to advance the product. The most important shock was that not solely did the corporate unveil the Even G2 Show Good Glasses but it surely additionally introduced the Even R1 Good Ring that doubles as a management machine for the glasses. 

I have been testing each the Even G2 and the Even R1 because the finish of October, when Even Realities hosted a small press occasion in New York to demo each merchandise for journalists. 

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Nonetheless, since not the entire options have been absolutely polished or made useful but, I might name this text my first impressions story quite than a full product evaluate.

And I will not bury the lead right here. 

I’ve tried all of the sensible glasses 

I think about the Even G2 probably the most comfy and most trendy set of sensible glasses I’ve tried. I’ve tried just about all of the main merchandise, together with all of the fashions from Meta. And due to the concentrate on privateness within the Even G2 — with no cameras or audio system — they’re additionally the one sensible glasses I would be comfy carrying always of the day. 

Priced on the similar stage because the first-generation product at $599, the Even G2 glasses stay a product that is priced extra like a premium pair of eyeglasses than a tech gadget. 

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The primary characteristic of the Even Actuality glasses is a shiny, monochrome inexperienced display show in each eyes that permits a number of key options, together with stay translation, telephone notifications, step-by-step navigation, fast notes, AI-based dialog enhancement, and a fundamental AI chatbot. 

However, by far, the perfect and most polished characteristic on these glasses is the teleprompter. It means that you can simply add scripts from normal textual content recordsdata and makes use of AI to trace your progress whereas talking the script, routinely advancing the textual content. It really works extremely nicely. 

Even G1 sensible glasses recap

Towards all odds, Even Realities had a viral hit with its Even G1 sensible glasses launched in 2024. These have been particularly championed by YouTubers, influencers, and content material creators, who liked the glasses virtually solely due to the teleprompter characteristic. 

And past the YouTubers, the first-generation Even Realities glasses have been made well-known by distinguished public figures who unabashedly used them whereas giving public talks. That included authorities ministers from France and UAE, on-air TV hosts, individuals giving TED Talks, and CEOs RJ Scaringe of Rivian and Palmer Luckey of Anduril. 

I used the teleprompter characteristic on the Even G1 glasses to ship my opening remarks earlier than the AI keynote discussions that I hosted at Cellular World Congress 2025 in Las Vegas. And on the day earlier than publishing this text, I used the teleprompter on the Even G2 glasses to ship my remarks throughout the opening keynote of SpiceWorld 2025 in Austin, Texas. The characteristic labored flawlessly in each instances. 

To be honest, not the entire options of the Even Realties glasses are as polished because the teleprompter. Many reviewers of the first-generation glasses criticized the software program expertise as buggy, unintuitive at instances, and never all the time straightforward to navigate. I used the Even G1 glasses for a number of months in 2025, and I discovered the evaluation to be fairly correct. 

It could possibly be tough to seek out issues in menus; a few of the options, similar to Navigation, felt unfinished, and the 8-bit model of the interface did not all the time make this really feel like a cutting-edge product. 

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That mentioned, my general impression of the Even G1 glasses was very optimistic. I loved carrying them greater than some other sensible glasses I’ve tried, largely resulting from the feel and appear of the product. Since they’re comfy, fashionable, and shouldn’t have cameras identified on the world, they do not make you’re feeling (justifiably) self-conscious about carrying them in any setting. 

So, how in regards to the Even G2 glasses? 

Testing Even G2 sensible glasses 

The most important and most important improve is to the show itself — it is 75% bigger and roughly 30% brighter, which unlocks quite a few capabilities and enhancements. Most notably to me was the teleprompter, in fact. Just a few weeks aside, I used the teleprompter characteristic onstage for keynote remarks utilizing the Even G1 and the Even G2. The Even G2 show was even clearer to see and observe — which gave me a bit extra freedom to maneuver round extra naturally whereas utilizing the glasses on stage.

The bigger show additionally makes the Navigation characteristic higher (and Even has upgraded the software program expertise as nicely). The larger show turns out to be useful for the language translation characteristic as nicely, because the translation solely seems as textual content on display, because the glasses do not have audio system. 

Even Realities additionally launched a brand new characteristic known as Conversate within the G2 glasses. This lets you activate the AI throughout a real-world dialog, so the glasses can observe what’s being mentioned, and show info on vital phrases and matters being mentioned, and probably summarize the dialog afterward. That is much like a brand new characteristic known as Dwell AI on the Meta Ray-Ban Show glasses. 

For these new and upgraded options within the Even G2 glasses, I would like to make use of them extra and permit Even Realities to do just a few software program updates earlier than I weigh in on the usefulness of the options apart from the teleprompter. 

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However the G2 glasses themselves are gentle (36g in comparison with 52g for Meta Ray-Ban Gen 2 and 69g for Meta Ray-Ban Show), the battery simply will get via 1-2 days on a single cost (in comparison with 2-8 hours for the varied Meta merchandise), and so they can take a variety of prescription lenses from -12 to +12 (in comparison with -4 to +4 for Meta Ray-Ban Show). 

With the G2, Even Realities saved the 2 fundamental kinds — one spherical and one sq. — however added a further inexperienced colour to its grey and brown colours from the G1 lineup. The corporate additionally made a slight variation to the unique round-style glasses by giving the highest of the circle a flatter edge, which makes the G2 model even a bit extra distinctive.

How the R1 Good Ring suits in 

The opposite main query relating to this new product facilities on the companion R1 Good Ring. Even Realities has the appropriate thought for what it is attempting to attain right here — offering a better, extra full-featured, and extra discreet approach to navigate a heads-up show — however the execution nonetheless wants some work. 

The ring is supposed to be worn in your index finger on both hand, and then you definately use your thumb to faucet, double-tap, and swipe up and all the way down to navigate the interface on the glasses. 

It took me some time to get used to the gestures for swiping across the G2 glasses utilizing the R1 ring, and it obtained fairly irritating at instances. I additionally had quite a lot of unintentional swipes that activated the glasses once I did not imply to, and executed actions that I did not intend. 

You should use the G2 glasses with out the R1 ring and use the contact pads on the finish of the arms on the glasses as an alternative. However I perceive what Even Realities is attempting to do, as a result of when the ring works nicely, it’s a extra refined and extra highly effective approach to navigate. Nonetheless, once I used the G2 glasses to ship an on-stage presentation with the teleprompter characteristic, I put the ring in my pocket in order that I would not have any unintentional swipes or interface mishaps. 

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Additionally, the R1 is not simply an interface machine for the glasses. It additionally features as a sensible ring to trace your well being and exercise, much like sensible rings from Oura, Samsung, and others. And the brand new G2 visible interface consists of easy accessibility to your well being metrics. 

Nevertheless, in my testing, the sensible ring well being options have been nonetheless pretty buggy, and so I will look forward to Even Realities to complete up and polish off the software program earlier than I make a willpower on how nicely it is applied. That mentioned, I do have some confidence that the corporate can do that nicely, because the founder and CEO, Will Wang, beforehand labored on the Apple Watch workforce. 

I am actually trying ahead to seeing how the R1’s operate evolves over time with software program updates and refinements. 

The R1 Good Ring prices $249 along with the $599 for the Even G2 glasses, so the pair will price $848 — That is costlier than the $799 Meta Ray-Ban Show glasses, which include a Neural Band and a full-color show in a single eye. Nevertheless, if you are going to buy the R1 with the G2 at launch, then you definately get the ring for 50% off, or $125 off, and that places the entire price of the pair at $725 at launch. 

Even Realities vs. Meta

And that brings us to the David-and-Goliath issue. Meta is presently the runaway market-leader within the sensible glasses house with 70% market share. Meta is a worldwide firm with over 75,000 staff and a $1.5 trillion market cap. Even Realities has about 200 staff and Wang informed me that it is largely break up between two places, with the know-how workforce in China and the glasses design workforce in Switzerland. 

However, Wang embraces the underdog function. He informed me that he believes Even Realities could be the disruptor within the sensible glasses market by being narrowly centered, having such a powerful perspective on privateness, and designing its personal glasses with model on the forefront. 

My Even G2 shopping for recommendation

In the case of shopping for recommendation, I like to recommend two forms of consumers for the G2 — and since quite a few options are nonetheless being polished, this suggestion might develop over time. Nevertheless, for now, I would suggest the Even G2 to people who incessantly give displays, public speeches, and different polished remarks, and would respect having a teleprompter that accompanies them anyplace, in any setting. 

This stays the perfect and most refined characteristic within the Even 2 Show Good Glasses. For these consumers, I would suggest getting the G2 with out the R1 Good Ring for now. 

The opposite sort of purchaser I would suggest is somebody who desires to have an AI chatbot on the prepared always however who’s additionally deeply involved with privateness and would not need to — or cannot — put on glasses with cameras on them in lots of the settings they transfer in all through the day. For these consumers, I do suggest additionally including the R1 Good Ring as a result of it is rather discreet and I am assured the usability will enhance over time. 

Finally, the model, consolation, battery life, and lack of cameras make the Even G2 glasses the one sensible glasses I see as sensible for carrying all day lengthy, for now.