Even Realities pitches camera-free smart glasses for meetings and travel

Even Realities is pushing smart glasses that leave the camera out entirely, with the G1 starting at $499 and the newer G2 starting at $599. The pitch is aimed at people who sit through back-to-back meetings, make presentations, and travel across language barriers, with tools for teleprompting, navigation, live translation, QuickNote, stocks, news, maps and AI assistance.

The company’s G1 model is built around an in-lens heads-up display rather than a camera. Engadget’s April 7, 2025 review put the glasses at 44 grams and uses a 640 x 200 monochrome display, while listing notifications, calendar alerts, stock and news updates, translation, navigation, AI and a teleprompter for presentations among the features. Even Realities says the G1 lasts up to 1.5 days on a charge.

The G2 extends that formula with two-day battery life and control through voice, touchpad or the Even R1 ring. Even Realities says G2 supports 35 languages in total, with 33 displayable in the glasses and some additional languages rendered as text only. Translation begins by recording the conversation and sending voice over Bluetooth to the app and cloud for real-time translation.

New York’s court system will bar recording glasses from all 1,240 state courts starting July 20, 2026, covering any eyewear or headwear that can capture audio or video and requiring wearers to hand the devices to court officers. Meta has also rolled out a mandatory update that disables the camera if the privacy light is tampered with or destroyed, and the company is testing super-sensing prototypes that would not rely on the visible LED.