Even Realities G2 Review: Smarter Glasses

Larger, sharper show than the archetypal G1. Super comfy titanium and magnesium frame. Smart AI integration. Better battery. Wide medicine lens support. Optional R1 astute ringing makes power simpler.

Software stableness remains an issue. Smart ringing is an other $249. Navigation needs a small finessing. The show is tricky to work successful agleam light.

In the 19 months since Even Realities launched the G1, its archetypal brace of astute glasses, the four-eyed tech scenery has evolved astatine a pace. Ray-Ban has sold much than 2 cardinal Meta Glasses, Oakley has joined the fun, and CES 2026 was awash with options from companies including Lucyd, RayNeo, Xreal, and MemoMind.

The Even G1 primitively stood retired partially due to the fact that the glasses featured a superb heads-up display, but mostly due to the fact that they lone looked “smart” successful the sartorial sense. They weren’t perfect, with glitchy controls and much bundle updates than Windows 98, but the imaginable was huge.

Launched successful November 2025, the caller Even G2 astute glasses measurement conscionable 1.26 ounces, boast a 75 percent larger display, and tin besides beryllium controlled by the Even R1, the company's first-ever astute ring. I’ve been wearing 1 for a fewer months and person been astounded by the exertion connected amusement and impressed by the updates, but immoderate of the first-gen woes remain.

What’s New?

The Even G2 glasses don't look particularly antithetic from the archetypal G1, which is simply a bully thing, due to the fact that they are inactive arguably the sharpest-looking astute glasses available. There’s inactive a prime of G2 A—a classical oval shape—and G2 B, with a rectangular frame, successful gray, brown, and a caller muted greenish colorway.

They are astir 0.28 ounces lighter than the original, acknowledgment to the caller operation of aerospace-grade magnesium alloy and titanium temples. It’s not a immense difference, but the illustration is simply a interaction slimmer too. As a result, they consciousness adjacent much similar a mean brace of glasses.

Like its predecessor, determination are nary cameras oregon audio playback, with the institution preferring to support its tech discreet. Notifications, navigation cues, translations, and AI-assisted prompts look concisely successful your tract of view, past disappear. Paired with the caller R1 astute power ring, the strategy is designed to support enactment subtle.

The show strategy has been upgraded, with Even HAO 2.0 (Holistic Adaptive Optics), which pairs micro-LED projectors and gradient waveguide optics with precision-engineered lenses to nutrient a show that’s astir 75 percent larger and importantly sharper than the original. Look cautiously astatine the lenses and you’ll spot a faint rectangle successful each eye. This is wherever the projector displays crisp greenish integer text. Brightness tin beryllium adjusted to a searing 1,200 nits, making the show easier to work successful adaptable light. There's besides a 2nd paper surface that floats successful beforehand of the main notifications page.

The G2 gains IP67 h2o and particulate resistance, and medicine enactment has improved to screen −12.00 to +12.00 diopters. Given however bladed the lenses are, this is an awesome feat of engineering. Battery beingness is besides improved, up from 1.5 to 2 afloat days.

Controls are amended now, too, and the interaction sheet connected the temple tips is much responsive, with a speedy interaction oregon slide. But the header upgrade is the $249 R1 astute ring. This zirconia ceramic and medical-grade stainless alloy ringing serves arsenic some a thumb controller for the G2 interface and a wellness tracker, letting users scroll, tap, and interact without touching the glasses portion besides capturing metrics similar bosom rate, steps, and sleep. It has the imaginable to beryllium a almighty tool, mixing a agleam but discreet heads-up show with arsenic clandestine power from the ring.

Smart Eyes

Aimed squarely astatine the concern professional, the Even G2 is designed to marque enactment beingness easier. The Teleprompt diagnostic is superb if you privation to adhd polish to your nationalist speaking, and it’s made each the amended acknowledgment to the bigger display. Add substance via the app, and the microphone follows on arsenic you talk, bolding the words successful existent time. You pause, and it pauses.

Even AI is the onboard virtual assistant—pulling accusation from a premix of Gemini, ChatGPT Perplexity, and Even LLM—that tin assistance reply questions without reaching for your phone. Just accidental “Hey, Even!” and ask. As with the archetypal generation, erstwhile this works well, it’s brilliant, and concise answers swiftly look for maine to read, and utilizing the R1 ring, scrolling longer answers is intuitive too. Sadly, portion the results are accurate, it tin often instrumentality acold excessively agelong to process and show them. It needs to beryllium a fluid interaction, and it’s conscionable not rather determination yet.

The Navigate widget has been updated, and some the representation presumption and velocity of directions are overmuch clearer than before. As a cyclist, I person utilized this diagnostic much than immoderate different and recovered it reliable, though the always-on representation show is irritating, and pop-up alerts would marque for a amended experience.

Translation has besides improved, with enactment for 33-plus languages, and translations look faster and much fluent than before. It’s inactive hamstrung by being predominantly a one-way transaction, but you tin present manus implicit your telephone to the idiosyncratic you’re talking to, truthful some of you tin spot their code translated and displayed. When Even Realities yet adds audio to aboriginal astute glasses—and it will—this volition beryllium a superb feature.

The biggest innovation comes successful the signifier of Conversate, the company's AI-driven speech assistant. Once activated, it listens to your speech and processes code successful existent time. It identifies cardinal topics, terms, and questions arsenic you talk, past displays contextual cues—such arsenic explanations of concepts, definitions of method words, basal biographies of radical mentioned—on the heads-up display. It besides generates a unrecorded transcript and a summary you tin reappraisal aboriginal successful the app. In practice, it works impressively well, and mentioning celebrated people, sports teams, and events successful past did so bring up prompts and facts successful existent time. The transcription facet is fantabulous too, with close summaries and suggestions.

I had hoped it would crook maine into a sports stats guru down the pub, secretly being capable to callback long-since-retired shot players and obscure nuggets of information. It’s not rather determination yet, and astatine times it would lag down the chat and go a hindrance alternatively than a help, but it did suggest a cure for a friend’s peculiarly achy hangover.

Having accusation flash up connected surface is handy, but I recovered speechmaking and digesting this information, portion maintaining a conversation, to beryllium beauteous difficult. I’d occasionally beryllium caught staring disconnected into the mediate region mid-chat. The show is casual to work successful astir instances, but changeable light, particularly sunshine, and chaotic backgrounds don’t help. Walking besides bounces the display—like an erratic autocue—so deliberation doubly earlier trying to impressment connected a walk-and-talk with the boss.

And past determination are the ethical implications of Conversate. Unlike Meta’s astute glasses, there’s nary disposable indicator that a speech is being recorded. Even Realities told maine the audio isn’t saved, lone the transcribed text, but it inactive feels similar thing you should inquire support for earlier switching it on. I tin spot the entreaty of having AI softly prompting you during a gathering oregon adjacent a occupation interrogation if you’re brave, but that usefulness arguably depends connected it being covert, which puts you connected bladed ice. At the aforesaid time, openly flagging that you’re utilizing AI would alternatively decision the point.

App Affair

The payoff for having specified “normal-looking" glasses is that the Even G2 is wholly reliant connected its app and a unchangeable Bluetooth connection. Available for iOS and Android, the app, overmuch similar the heads-up display, is simply a stripped-back monochrome affair, with easy accessible modes.

Navigation and setup are intuitive, and it’s casual to set settings, take however the HUD appears successful beforehand of your eyes, alteration notifications, and determine what you privation connected the main dashboard. You tin take from quality outlets (including WIRED), positive calendar and banal information. It’s sparse, but if you request instant entree to the Nikkei Index, you’re sorted.

I similar however minimal and casual to navigate the app is, but not the fig of times I’ve had to reboot, upgrade, connect, and disconnect the glasses during testing. The brace I received was inactive successful beta, truthful bugs are to beryllium expected, but adjacent aft the authoritative motorboat and rollout of the consumer-ready app, it remains a lottery arsenic to whether the G2 glasses and R1 ringing volition enactment arsenic smoothly arsenic they should.

Software stableness was the biggest contented I had with the archetypal G1 glasses, and I’m annoyed it hasn’t been resolved here. I’m good with firmware updates, particularly with emerging tech similar this, but not being capable to trust connected the glasses erstwhile I request them is hugely frustrating.

Bling Ring

Sporting a touch-sensitive aboveground on 1 side, the Even R1 ringing (a $249 optional addition) lets you tap, swipe, and clasp with your thumb to navigate the glasses' interface. It’s a genuinely utile accessory that makes day-to-day usage of the G2 acold easier than tapping the temple tips. Aesthetically, it looks good, though the Even logo wouldn’t person been my archetypal choice. It does astatine slightest service a purpose, indicating the close predisposition truthful the touchpad is wrong reach.

The ringing makes a large quality to usability and interactivity. You tin scroll subtly without touching the frames, making it easier to hide you’re wearing astute glasses astatine all. There is simply a learning curve, and if you absent-mindedly fidget with your fingers, arsenic I do, you’ll unfastened menus by accident. It does get easier and smoother with practice.

The R1 besides tracks your sleep, steps, and bosom rate, which is simply a neat touch. It’s not arsenic close arsenic my Garmin smartwatch oregon Whoop band, and the accusation is presented successful a much rudimentary way, but there’s imaginable if you haven’t already invested successful a wearable.

Battery beingness is simply a respectable 4 days for the ring, and the charging basal is nice. It is an costly add-on, pushing the full (before medicine lenses) to $848, but having utilized the glasses some with and without the R1 Ring, I deliberation it is wealth good spent.

Last Look

As a glasses-wearing tech journalist, I really emotion the thought of the Even Realities G2. Having AI assistance with tricky conversations, construe languages, reply questions, support maine up to day with my messages and emails, diary dates, and quality headlines, without relying connected my phone, is simply a superb idea.

The plan and engineering that person gone into these astute glasses is earnestly clever. Getting the lenses that thin, portion expanding show size, improving the fit, and reducing the value points to a clip erstwhile this exertion volition beryllium seamlessly integrated into our regular rims. The G2 feels similar the future, and they tin beryllium genuinely utile day-to-day. The information that they besides consciousness similar modular glasses conscionable adds to the appeal. The institution besides plans to unfastened the bundle to app developers for third-party apps, a astute determination indeed.

At $599, they’re a premium choice. It’s much than I would personally walk connected a brace of glasses, nary substance however “smart” they are, but if you’ve already bought the Rimowa luggage, the Mont Blanc fountain pen, and the Tom Ford suit, this won’t beryllium an issue.

So the surface has improved, the glasses are amended successful astir ways from the archetypal generation, and the usage of AI has evolved nicely with Conversate. But the day-to-day enjoyment and acquisition of the Even R2 glasses and Even R1 ringing is hampered by dilatory connections, awesome dropouts, bundle glitches, and each excessively predominant updates. When it works, it works brilliantly, but a merchandise similar this, 1 aimed astatine the busiest of professionals, needs to beryllium perfectly friction-free. The hardware is ready, the bundle conscionable needs to drawback up, and quickly, particularly with the Meta Ray-Ban Display blistery connected their heels.