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 largest shock was that not solely did the corporate unveil the Even G2 Display Smart Glasses nevertheless it additionally introduced the Even R1 Smart Ring that doubles as a management gadget for the glasses. 

I have been testing each the Even G2 and the Even R1 for the reason that 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 all the options have been totally polished or made useful but, I might name this text my first impressions story moderately than a full product overview.

And I will not bury the lead right here. 

I’ve tried all of the sensible glasses 

I contemplate the Even G2 essentially 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 deal with privateness within the Even G2 — with no cameras or audio system — they’re additionally the one sensible glasses I might be comfy sporting always of the day. 

Priced on the similar degree 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 function of the Even Actuality glasses is a shiny, monochrome inexperienced display screen show in each eyes that permits a number of key options, together with reside translation, cellphone notifications, step-by-step navigation, fast notes, AI-based dialog enhancement, and a fundamental AI chatbot. 

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

Even G1 sensible glasses recap

In opposition to 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 completely due to the teleprompter function. 

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

I used the teleprompter function on the Even G1 glasses to ship my opening remarks earlier than the AI keynote discussions that I hosted at Mobile 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 function labored flawlessly in each instances. 

To be honest, not all the 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 occasions, and never all the time simple 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 may very well be troublesome to seek out issues in menus; a number of the options, comparable to Navigation, felt unfinished, and the 8-bit type of the interface did not all the time make this really feel like a cutting-edge product. 

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

So, how in regards to the Even G2 glasses? 

Testing Even G2 sensible glasses 

The largest and most important improve is to the show itself — it is 75% bigger and roughly 30% brighter, which unlocks quite a lot of capabilities and enhancements. Most notably to me was the teleprompter, after all. A number of weeks aside, I used the teleprompter function 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 somewhat extra freedom to maneuver round extra naturally whereas utilizing the glasses on stage.

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

Even Realities additionally launched a brand new function referred to 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 data on essential phrases and matters being mentioned, and doubtlessly summarize the dialog afterward. That is much like a brand new function referred to as Stay AI on the Meta Ray-Ban Show glasses. 

For these new and upgraded options within the Even G2 glasses, I might like to make use of them extra and permit Even Realities to do a couple of 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 mild (36g in comparison with 52g for Meta Ray-Ban Gen 2 and 69g for Meta Ray-Ban Show), the battery simply will get by way of 1-2 days on a single cost (in comparison with 2-8 hours for the assorted 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 principal types — 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 type even somewhat extra distinctive.

How the R1 Sensible Ring suits in 

The opposite main query concerning this new product facilities on the companion R1 Sensible Ring. Even Realities has the correct concept for what it is attempting to attain right here — offering a neater, extra full-featured, and extra discreet strategy 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 you then 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 bought fairly irritating at occasions. I additionally had a variety of unintentional swipes that activated the glasses once I did not imply to, and executed actions that I did not intend. 

You should utilize the G2 glasses with out the R1 ring and use the contact pads on the finish of the arms on the glasses as a substitute. However I perceive what Even Realities is attempting to do, as a result of when the ring works nicely, it’s a extra delicate and extra highly effective strategy to navigate. Nonetheless, once I used the G2 glasses to ship an on-stage presentation with the teleprompter function, 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 gadget for the glasses. It additionally capabilities as a wise ring to trace your well being and exercise, much like sensible rings from Oura, Samsung, and others. And the brand new G2 visible interface contains easy accessibility to your well being metrics. 

Nonetheless, in my testing, the sensible ring well being options have been nonetheless pretty buggy, and so I will look ahead to Even Realities to complete up and polish off the software program earlier than I make a willpower on how nicely it is carried out. 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 perform evolves over time with software program updates and refinements. 

The R1 Sensible 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. Nonetheless, if you buy the R1 with the G2 at launch, you then get the ring for 50% off, or $125 off, and that places the whole price of the pair at $725 at launch. 

Even Realities vs. Meta

And that brings us to the David-and-Goliath issue. Meta is at the moment the runaway market-leader in the smart glasses space with 70% market share. Meta is a world firm with over 75,000 staff and a $1.5 trillion market cap. Even Realities has about 200 staff and Wang instructed me that it is largely break up between two places, with the expertise workforce in China and the glasses design workforce in Switzerland. 

However, Wang embraces the underdog position. He instructed me that he believes Even Realities may be the disruptor within the sensible glasses market by being narrowly targeted, having such a powerful perspective on privateness, and designing its personal glasses with type on the forefront. 

My Even G2 shopping for recommendation

With regards to shopping for recommendation, I like to recommend two sorts of patrons for the G2 — and since quite a lot of options are nonetheless being polished, this advice might broaden over time. Nonetheless, for now, I might advocate the Even G2 to people who continuously give shows, public speeches, and different polished remarks, and would admire having a teleprompter that accompanies them wherever, in any setting. 

This stays the most effective and most refined function within the Even 2 Show Sensible Glasses. For these patrons, I might advocate getting the G2 with out the R1 Sensible Ring for now. 

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

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