Even Realities G2
Ranked 4 of 7 AR glasses by recommenders
Lightweight smart glasses with a minimal heads-up display for calendar, tasks, notes and AI; people like the concept, but the closed, sparsely useful software is the main drawback.
Lightweight smart glasses with a minimal heads-up display for calendar, tasks, notes and AI; people like the concept, but the closed, sparsely useful software is the main drawback.
25 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 13
- criticize it
- 12
- approval share
- 52%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 13 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 1 recommender for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Minimal, uncluttered heads-up display
“The no camera HUD is exactly what I want, except I also want SSH (Mosh) and sending text to speech to it before I'd buy these.”
Comment from 10 Aug 2026 in “'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows” “simple and elegant. Less is more, just calendar, tasks, notes and AI.”
Comment from 19 Nov 2025 in “Even Realities Smart Glasses: G2” Appealing concept and promising look
“I like the idea a lot more than other implementations”
Comment from 19 Nov 2025 in “Even Realities Smart Glasses: G2” “the Even G2 look very promising”
Comment from 9 Jun 2026 in “Ask HN: Are you still using your Vision Pro?”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Closed ecosystem with no open apps
“I am not putting any hardware on my nose if I can't fully control the software running on it.”
Comment from 19 Nov 2025 in “Even Realities Smart Glasses: G2” “a complete walled garden with very sparse functionality right now”
Comment from 19 Nov 2025 in “Even Realities Smart Glasses: G2” “I don't have time to fiddle around with some locked-in ecosystem”
Comment from 19 Nov 2025 in “Even Realities Smart Glasses: G2” - Comment from 19 Nov 2025 in “Even Realities Smart Glasses: G2”
- Comment from 19 Nov 2025 in “Even Realities Smart Glasses: G2”
Apps not better than phone
“if the software doesn't offer something meaningfully better than pulling out your phone”
Comment from 19 Nov 2025 in “Even Realities Smart Glasses: G2” “considering how bad the last generation of applications for these devices was”
Comment from 19 Nov 2025 in “Even Realities Smart Glasses: G2” “the apps don't solve any of my problems”
Comment from 19 Nov 2025 in “Even Realities Smart Glasses: G2” Voice features buggy and unreliable
“the teleprompter is terrible and buggy when it tries to follow along based on voice”
Comment from 19 Nov 2025 in “Even Realities Smart Glasses: G2” “the microphones are terrible, so the live translation feature barely works”
Comment from 19 Nov 2025 in “Even Realities Smart Glasses: G2”
Other AR glasses people recommend
The four most recommended other AR glasses, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses | 99 | 361 | 22% | 11 | 2 yrs13 owners | — |
| Meta VR Glasses | 30 | 43 | 41% | 3 | — | — |
| XREAL glasses | 19 | 11 | 63% | 8 | — | — |
| Even Realities G2This page | 13 | 12 | 52% | 3 | — | — |
| XReal One Pro | 11 | 3 | 79% | 6 | — | Approved |
What people said
25 of the 28 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“various holographic solutions used by Even Realities and likes is not so spectacular in light loss”
“The no camera HUD is exactly what I want, except I also want SSH (Mosh) and sending text to speech to it before I'd buy these.”
“They're already lifechanging, even if they come with the risk of being taken away at any moment”
“they started out a bit limited, but they recently added an app store for developers”
“the Even G2 look very promising”
“the teleprompter is terrible and buggy when it tries to follow along based on voice”
“being able to move your head so that you can see past the thing on the screen is useful”
“Teleprompter is pretty original and compelling”
“They have an open BLE based protocol, you can display whatever you want on the screen.”
“I don't have time to fiddle around with some locked-in ecosystem”
“The privacy policy is not one of them. No thanks.”
“if the software doesn't offer something meaningfully better than pulling out your phone”
“considering how bad the last generation of applications for these devices was”
“simple and elegant. Less is more, just calendar, tasks, notes and AI.”
“doesn't exactly leave great confidence in their engineering”
“I am not putting any hardware on my nose if I can't fully control the software running on it.”
“a complete walled garden with very sparse functionality right now”
“I hate the aesthetics of them (for me,) which is going to be a huge problem for the smart glasses world.”
“Thanks this was key in deciding whether to consider this brand at all.”
“the microphones are terrible, so the live translation feature barely works”
“there are no speakers, which they pitch as a "simpler quieter interface"”
“Why do I want this if I can't run code on it? Useless.”
“the apps don't solve any of my problems”
“No open App Store is a non starter.”
“I like the idea a lot more than other implementations”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.