ReviewChinese smart-glasses maker Even Realities puts displays first in alternative vision to Meta
The US$600 G1 glasses are a premium, display-oriented product in a market increasingly flooded with cheap Chinese alternatives
Unlike the Ray-Ban frames, the Even Realities G1 glasses use micro-LED projectors and a special layer embedded in the lenses to convey information rather than speakers. It is something I have long wanted in a pair of sleek glasses that I would feel comfortable wearing out in public. The hardware delivers on the promise, although software may not be ready for the world to adopt this sci-fi future just yet.
When Even Realities offered to send me its debut product to try out, I was most excited to see what kind of progress was being made on smart glasses with displays. I categorise these as “visual” smart glasses, as that is how they primarily give feedback, in contrast with “auditory” smart glasses like the speaker-equipped Ray-Ban Meta frames, or “immersive” smart glasses, like Meta’s newly unveiled Orion augmented reality glasses or the glasses from China’s Xreal.
The most important thing for a product like this is that they have to feel like regular glasses – i.e. something that people will want to wear every day – a fact not lost on Even Realities co-founder and CEO Will Wang.