Smart glasses. They have come quite a long way just in the past year or two. I
mean, we went from devices that had big chunky bulky things on the front. I did
not like that. As cool as it was, we've gone from that to sleek, sultry,
stylish. About a year ago, I looked at the Even Realities G1 and I was I was
pretty impressed because especially at that time, there was nothing really on
the market [music] that was as sleek and
nice and uh performative. And now we
have Oh, the G2. Did you see that? I love they had the same kind of that was
that's what they did before. They got the pizzazz. The G2 makes a number of
discrete [music] improvements, but overall still looks sleek. Let's see
what's in the box first. And also, what's in this box? This is a ring. There's a ring now. Hold your horses.
Ooh, what do they write? I feel like I remember them writing something. Quietly
extraordinary power for your everyday life. That makes me feel so good. What
they're getting across here, though, is, you know, what I do like about these is
that it's a product that is meant to try, it's trying to fit into normal life
instead of trying to transform life into a horrible dystopia, which is, I think,
better. got a quick guide that all looks
very interesting, but I don't need to familiarize myself with it too much
because spoiler alert, I have been using these for the past uh week or [music]
two just to kind of understand. In the bottom of the box, we have once again a
nice uh cleaning cloth here, folded wonderfully that I'm going to ruin a
sleeved cable and that is, you know, that's three [music] that's three and
1/2 ft. I'm a scientist. I need to know these things. And in the middle we have
uh temple sleeves and nose pads because
the design of the even G1 and the G2 it
is so sleek that some people might want some extra protection in between their
skin and the metal. And we got safety and warranty information. But there's
also the Even Realities R1, a smart
ring. They did not have this the first go around. I love the unboxing
experience. I got to say they're thinking about what it's going to be
like. They're using empathy. So, there's the ring itself. It looks shiny. Look at
that. There's all sorts of sensors in there. Can you see that? Ooh, there it
is. Hold on. No, not yet. I'll do that after. Okay, this is the charging pad
[music] for the ring. Oh, how long is it? That seems a bit longer, actually. 3
and 1/2 ft plus a little bit. >> Measuring tape. >> Hair science.
>> No, some parts of science are just vibes. And this just magnetically
attaches on there like that. And if you plug the other end in, there's a little
thing that'll light up. Trust me. Trust me. Safety and warranty information.
Okay, ready? Got it. Okay, good. Let's look at the actual glasses themselves.
They got [music] this magnetic uh closing case here and a USBC port on the
back. And you just open it up. There's a magnetic thing on the back so it
attaches. So, you can leave it open like that if you want to display it.
Well, as you can see, you know, if I hide these the little dongle thing on
the back that looks like a regular pair of glasses, doesn't it? Oh, did I see the display for a second? Oh, and they
went away. But those are the wavegu displays. They're small. You can't even
tell that there's display hardware really unless you look closely. If you
saw the G1 video, you might be thinking those look exactly the same. BUT YOU'D
BE WRONG because the temples are now built with full titanium and they're 53%
thinner at 1.2 mm. The overall frame
size is reduced by 20% and the end piece
here is actually reduced size by 15%. So, there are differences and there are
also differences on the inside which we will get to. But overall, when you look
at them, I'm an even better wizard now than I was
before. Oh, hold on. I forgot to mention a couple things. So, on the end piece
here, that is where the touchpad is. There's tap controls. Double tap to go
back. You can hold tap and hold to bring up the options within the UI. There's
another touch pad on the other side, but they are interchangeable. You can use
either touchpad. We have four microphones, two on the back and two on
the front. I didn't mention you can also swipe on the uh on the touchpad back
here, but there are no other controls. However, there are more controls on the
smart ring on the R1. Enough is enough.
Okay, as I put on the glasses, the
display is there to greet me, and I can double tap on the ring to dismiss it. on
the previous model to dismiss it, you'd have to be reaching back and if you were
like looking at something, you're like, "Ah, no, I don't. The display's in the way." And you like keep touching your
head. So, the R1 has this touch pad on
it. As you can see, where these dots are
on the edge of the ring, that's the uh [music] touch pad. So, you can swipe up
and down on that. You can tap, you can double tap, you can tap and hold. But
this isn't just a control ring. It also has a PPG sensor in there for heart rate
and blood oxygen level as well as a skin temperature sensor and an accelerometer
so it can track your steps and stuff because that is another new thing that
the G2 has that the G1 did not. It can give you some insights on sleep. It's
been tracking me and I'm actually a little bit scared to see what it finds.
The ring itself is apparently made with a zirconia ceramic lined with medical
grade stainless steel that even reality
says gives it a silky smooth finish. One thing that I feel like I would actually
like is some kind of texture to know if
I'm if my thumb is on the touchpad. Most of the time you can tell because the top
of the ring is flat and it has the Even Reality's uh logo on it. However, most
of the time if I'm like, "Okay, I want the display up." I can just like double
tap on the ring and it shows up and I can double tap back. So, as with the G1,
the G2 uses what you might think of as
sort of like a fighter jet heads up display with like everything displayed
just in green. However, there have been some key improvements. It's a 75% larger
display. And they also have some distance to it now. So, you can set it
[music] to near or mid or far away. Maybe if you're outside, you set it to
more far away because you'll be looking at things that far away and then you don't have to focus focus focus back.
Here you can adjust the brightness of the display, which apparently goes up to
1,200 nits. I've had it actually basically as low as it goes because you
[music] can I can see it. And the benefit of this particular kind of smart
glasses is that it's not presenting me like a color screen, like an Android
screen that like kind of blocks stuff out. I can see in between the [music]
letters and stuff. So even if the display is right in front of me, I can
still choose to kind of focus beyond it and see what's behind it. And even
reality says that that's partially possible because of their holistic
[music] adaptive optics technology. They say it's proprietary. Like they figured
out how to make the microLEDD projectors and the wave guides and the lenses kind
of work together so that everything stays very clear yet crisp. Those
[music] are the same thing. If you must know, the resolution of the displays in
each lens is 640x 350. But you're not
going to be watching movies on these things. I [music] think that the G1 kind of took a bit more of an approach where
you want to be present. You want to be looking at what's around you in the world and then if you want some
information, you can kind of look up and see it and it's like, oh, okay, I'm [music] checking that and then you go
back. You can still set the display so that it's like near the top of your
view, but it being larger means that if you want more information there, it's
[music] there. It is also nice to be able to have this dashboard that they
have set up where you can see the clock and [music] the it shows you the
temperature and your notification count and then these screens that you can
swipe through. They've got news stocks you're following, your calendar at a
glance, a task [music] list, and your health information. And you can tap into
each of those things and get more information. [music] Let's see what else we got going on the in the app. So,
there's a moon button over here. That's silent mode. So, you can just turn the
display off entirely. You can turn it back on by touching and holding on the
touch pads at the back. Here's where you can customize your dashboard. You can
choose specific news sources to add or you can just say, "Okay, I want
generally business, science, and technology, the only things that matter." And then calendar. This will by
default sync with your Google calendar on Android and with your Apple calendar
on iOS. If you're wondering what this head-up display, it was in the G1 as
well. If you want to activate the display, you can look up. Oh, I'm
getting too much reality. I need to connect to the internet in some way.
There it is. By default, the display will turn off by itself after 10
seconds, but you can modify that to go down to 3 seconds or just never. You
always want to be in the matrix. You're It's cipher. Other than that, though, we
got some familiar features. Translate, live translation. We're going to test
that out. Teleprompting, navigating with maps, quick list, which is like notes,
and even AI, which is like a chatbot. But there's also a new feature called
Conversate, which will run while you're
having a conversation [music] and transcribe everything that's happening
and also pull up interesting notes using
AI. I had it listen in during a writer's meeting. [music] And it was kind of
funny. [laughter] After it picks up all that stuff, you can scroll to the bottom here and it'll
have concepts, suggestions, BIOS, and it'll have BIOS of the people that were
[music] mentioned in the meeting. Elijah is a prophet in the Hebrew Bible. That's
our Elijah. Context suggests Mark is involved in the team's work and needs to
figure something out tomorrow with a speaker. So, that's going to be a big
task for Mark. You can also access the raw transcript, which I felt like was
pretty accurate. You can set this feature to use either the phone
microphone or the microphone on the Even G2. And I was using the phone
microphone. My phone was on my desk. There were people talking like halfway
across the room behind my chair and it was picking it up like pretty well.
There were a couple times where I was like, "Okay, that person mumbled a little bit and it got confused, but
overall I was like, "Wow, I'm going to come back and and hold this against you
big time [music] later." Up above the bio section, though, you're going to
have key points and then you can also go
and [music] check off action items. I'm not personally in a lot of situations
where I'm going to be using this, but I can see people, you know, like in kind
of more corporate settings where they're like, "Oh, we need to we had a lot of
stuff [music] discussed conversating." Now, when I was in that conversation,
uh, I could see everything popping up as it was happening, but you can also turn
that off. So, [music] while the conversation is happening, maybe the transcript is going, but you don't, you
know, you're not being distracted [music] by like, and Mark is going to do this, and you're like, "Oh, oh, that's
who Mark is." And that kind of goes along with like even G2's whole approach
here to smart glasses that I find so interesting. These are not a pair of
glasses that is meant for you to [music] scroll your Instagram reels on. They're
meant to be kind of a functional tool that like you can just kind of plug into
your normal life and get some helpful information while also again I can't
emphasize this enough wearing a pair of glasses that looks normal. Sort of.
Maybe I wouldn't call this normal. Maybe I look classy. Do I look like I'm going
to deny your application to be a museum curator? You're an alter.
>> You look way [music] more pretentious than that. >> Thank you. The other brand new feature
in the app here is the health section. You can have my whole biology laid bare
for you guys here. I did 193 steps, which is not very many, but I was taking
the ring off and putting it on. Okay, I haven't I haven't worn it straight for
two weeks. I'm sorry. What is this? I've burned 1,600 cal kilo calories. Hey,
even what does kal stand for? It's a unit
unit of energy. To measure the energy content of food, it is equivalent to
1,000 [music] calories, small calories. By the way, that was the even AI that is
uh available. You can turn on or off the wake word. So, it's listening, but it's
a hey even. And it is it's a it's a chatbot. And it is not as much of a
personal assistant as it is meant to be used for information. So, you can't ask
it to like text people back, but you can ask it to take a note. You can tell it
to start translate. You can tell it to use the specific features, but it's not
going to be like a Google Assistant kind of like everything assistant, which
again kind of goes with the philosophy here. But back to the ring. It can give
you some information about your sleep, except I didn't wear it while I was
sleeping. But up here, we have a productivity score. Flex how well your
body is prepared [music] for focus and energy today based on signals from
yesterday's sleep. I actually didn't know that I was supposed to be wearing it when I sleep. I'm sorry. Now, I know
you're wondering, so let's uh let's check out live translate. One of our new
writers here, Sean Frey. So, you lived in Germany for how long?
>> For seven years. >> And your German is >> not good. [laughter]
>> Okay. So, it's going to show on the phone and I can see the words popping up
on my display just in case I wanted to know what I was saying in German. But
you go now. >> Hello, Riley.
Deutseland. >> Riley, my German is still poor. very
much like that in Germany. Please, please, please. I have to go to the
bathroom right now. Is there anywhere close? I'm going to burst out of my
pants here. >> Okay, come. >> Okay, come to the bathrooms. That's a
bit [laughter] But regardless, >> my German is broken.
>> You know what, Sean? Your German may be broken, but that feature certainly
isn't. >> Oh, it's so embarrassing. >> Let's go to Germany. Okay.
>> Oh, god. >> Teleprompt is the other one that I remember being very impressed by. And
this one actually is kind of even more promising because it's [music] a bigger
display. And before I had to because the display was smaller and it was a little
higher up, I had to kind of like angle my head. So I was looking at the camera
like that. But now it can go right in front of [music] where I'm looking here.
So like I am looking at the camera as if I'm hosting a techn uh [music] video.
And it's worth noting that in the settings you can set it to scroll manual
that you can control either with the touchpad on the on the ring to scroll up
and down or you can also connect a external remote control. Then there's
this AI mode which autoscrolls as it
hears you say the script as you go. So I'm going to use that one. I'm going to
start. I'm in AI mode but I can still scroll with the ring. This video is
about inviting 50 strangers to try and stay inside a giant jello cube. the
longest and the winner gets $100. You thought it was about tech news, but I
tricked you, but really it is about tech news and I've just tricked you again.
This I mean I got to say this is very useful and as someone who reads off a
teleprompter almost every day except in these videos which is why they're so
unhinged. So the navigate feature is here once more and it's primarily
focused on walking and cycling directions. [music] Not going to lie, I
did try to use it for driving. not super useful cuz it kept telling me to take a
bike path. Apparently cyclists don't like that. One thing to know about the
navigate feature though is that [music] in some areas it might be more useful
than in others because even realities works with a navigation provider who
heavily relies on open street map data. It doesn't have the depth of information
and depth of uh you know routes that Google maps will have. Apparently people
in other locations have had uh better experiences with it. So, [music]
your mileage may vary with Navigate, but if you are in a location where it does
work well, it's a pretty nice experience being able to have a map up there with
directions as you're walking. You can kind of just like [music] follow it and
it's just kind of there if you want it. And lastly, there's the quick list here
where you can make a note. [music] I don't need to make notes most of the
time, but I did need to remind myself to shoot this video, so I did ask even to
make that note and it did. And here we are. So, that's kind of an overview of
the features, but I cannot reiterate enough how wearing these does not feel
like wearing smart glasses. [music] I've done a few of them on this channel, and
by far, especially having done the G1 and now the G2, like [music] I can wear
these at my desk. I can wear these moving around the office and doing
stuff, being able to see notifications pop up. I don't I forget that I'm
wearing the smart glasses. And that's partially due to the nextG lenses that
they've got in here. They're 30% thinner than the ones in the G1 while not losing
anything clarity-wise [music] because they used over 100 layers in
here somehow. How is that? Did you see that? And you may have noticed that I
just swapped from my regular glasses to these because they're my prescription.
So, you can send them your [music] prescription and they'll send you your
glasses with the lenses in them like they're normal glasses. They cover prescriptions from plus 12 to negative
-12 and they have digital surfacing
available for people with a stigmatism or myopia and they use for the digital
serving they use a diamond tipped lathe. Even reality says that you can expect
these to last for 2 days but they've lasted longer for me because I haven't
worn them for the entire workday because one thing that I haven't noted that you
should be aware of is because of these dongles on the back overear headphones
may not fit all the way around. I like to wear noise cancelling headphones so I
can focus and also so people know not to
approach me. But if you're wearing them all day and you're using them constantly, uh 2 days of battery life,
the case uh holds a maximum of seven full glasses charges in it. And the ring
has a 4day battery life and I have not run into any problems with every time
I've picked them up. You know, maybe they weren't at 100% but I've never had to be like, "Ah, I got to charge them."
[music] So pretty good. And I didn't even know this, but apparently they have
an IP65 rating now. And I went out in the rain and it was splashing on me and
I was a little worried, but I guess I shouldn't have been. Now, as I said, the Even Reality's G2 is entering into a
world now in which smart glasses are kind of becoming more of a thing. There
are these options out there that will become more available with [music] like
full color displays and stuff. And these are like you're asking yourself, you
know, I want to I want to exist in the metaverse. I think Mark Zuckerberg and
those guys have it right. But the thing that remains interesting
to me about these is A, they look like real glasses. B, they aren't trying to
take up your entire attention. They're trying to give you some useful
information and kind of back out like an actual assistant would. If you have a
personal assistant, you don't want like to only talk to them all the time. You
want to talk to everybody that you normally talk to in your life and have your assistant be like, "Message just
came in." They'll be like, "Thank you. Now go
away." So whether that's interesting to you uh will be up to you to decide. And
it'll also be up to you to decide whether these are worth the $600 price
point. If you want the prescription lens, it's $160, uh extra for that. And
the ring goes for $250. So altogether,
you know, it's not a small investment. [music]
Uh but for people who have a lot going
on, they need to [music] get information delivered to them that's not too
distracting. I can see the argument for it, especially if you're looking to not
draw tons of attention to the glasses that you're wearing, except in a good
way. But at the end of the day, I can't tell you what to do except to tell you
to subscribe to ShortCircuit. Thanks again to Even Realities for sending
these over for us to take a look at. And if you're looking for another video to
watch, uh, I guess watch maybe the previous one, the G1 or the any other
video you pick. The world's your oyster.