If you’re icked out by cameras in smart glasses, you might be in for some good news. Even Realities, which makes the G1 smart glasses, is readying to drop a new pair next week. And if they’re anything like that pair, they’ll be a lot more privacy-friendly than competitors from Meta and elsewhere.
Even G2. Get ready to wear the future. Launching on Nov 12.
At first, they might look like ordinary glasses. But the moment you wear them, everything changes.
A new extraordinary power is almost ready to be unleashed.
Launching on Nov 12.https://t.co/zP4T3JxNI9 pic.twitter.com/EAQTzQ5ew2— Even Realities (@EvenRealities) November 6, 2025
Even Realities doesn’t give much in the way of detail on its launch next week on Nov. 12, but a short teaser video does show a few things. Obviously, like the G1, the G2 will have a screen, which is monochrome as opposed to more premium displays like the full-color kind on the Meta Ray-Ban Display. That screen, if the video is anything to go off of, will show a few things for sure, including calendar notifications and information surfaced when you use Even AI, the smart glasses’ voice assistant. These shouldn’t come as a surprise, since those are capabilities from the G1, but good to see they’ve carried over.
Even Realities does tease that “a new extraordinary power is almost ready to be unleashed,” which might have some people up in arms, expecting the company to add cameras and speakers just like other competitors from Meta, but I wouldn’t count on that. For Even Realities, the whole appeal is that its glasses don’t have those things, and if the company wanted to, it could have put them in from the get-go. The problem when you start adding those things is twofold.
First, there are the implications for privacy. While some might not care about people walking around with cameras strapped to their faces, plenty more people do, and not having those kinds of things in the G1 sets the smart glasses apart from the rest of the field. Then, there’s the matter of bulk. A major part of Even Realities’ pitch is that its smart glasses feel more like regular glasses in that they’re lightweight. Adding cameras and speakers to the equation compromises that lightness, and the moment they’re there, you’re talking about a completely different kind of gadget.
Personally, even if I use the camera on the Ray-Ban Meta glasses sometimes, I don’t find that it’s critical, and I’d be bummed to see Even Realities take the camera route so soon—diversity, in this case, feels like the right move for smart glasses. I could always be wrong, but adding a camera to the G2 feels like a long shot, though it does beg the question: what is the new extraordinary power? For that, I guess we’ll have to wait about a week to find out for sure.
