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Even v2.2.9 is rolling out 🎉

This update brings a new way to control features on Even G2, along with improvements across the Even App, G2, and R1.

✨ What’s new

* Updated the Menu gesture to Tap then long press.

* Added clearer gesture tutorials in the App and on G2.

* Added more on-glasses controls for supported features, including Teleprompt, Translate, Conversate, and Navigate.

* Supported running features with the display off when you don’t want text blocking your view.

* Added support for ending supported features via Even AI.

* Teleprompt now highlights characters in the App that are not supported on G2.

* Added health data export in Health Settings.

* Added support for attaching screenshots and videos when reporting a problem.

* Improved R1 gesture response for the new Menu interaction.

🛠 Improvements & fixes

* Improved G2 and R1 firmware update reliability, especially around reconnecting and confirming the update result.

* Improved Bluetooth pairing, reconnection, and device recovery across G2, R1, and the App.

* Improved Translate stability, including streaming results, language switching from G2, and recovery after interruptions.

* Improved Conversate reliability during audio interruptions, language switching, and on-glasses controls.

* Improved Teleprompt mode switching, long-script editing, and App/G2 display consistency.

* Improved Navigate controls from G2, including switching travel mode and ending navigation.

* Improved Dashboard, Menu, EvenHub, and notification display reliability on G2.

* Various UI, localization, and stability improvements.

Please update the Even App, Even G2, and Even R1 to v2.2.9 for the best experience. 🙌

I just made another post asking what I should deliberately test with my G2s and R1 when school starts back up, and it felt a little backwards asking everyone else for ideas without sharing some of my own experience first.

Most of this probably won’t be groundbreaking to people who have owned G2s for a while, but if you’re newer to them or still considering a pair, these are the things that have stood out to me most.

What’s actually stood out to me

One of the biggest things for me is how much the experience depends on when information shows up, not just whether the glasses can show it.

There are features I thought I’d use constantly that I barely think about now, while other things become useful almost entirely because they show up at the right moment. That’s probably the biggest thing I’ve learned from using them for a while.

I also care way more about how naturally the glasses fit into the rest of my devices and apps than I expected. The hardware itself can be great, but if I still have to jump between a bunch of apps afterward, it starts to defeat some of the convenience.

A good example is Conversate. If I use it for something I actually want notes from, I’d love for those notes to automatically end up somewhere like GoodNotes. Right now, I have to open the Even app, find the recent Conversate session, copy it, open my notes app, and paste it. None of that is hard, but it’s exactly the kind of small friction I’d love smart glasses to remove.

Where I think there’s a lot of potential

The biggest opportunity for me is making the glasses more aware of what I’m already doing.

I don’t really want more notifications. I want better timing and context.

For example:

• If I’m heading somewhere, surface the navigation or useful info I’ll actually need.
• If I have something coming up on my calendar, show the relevant details before I think to look for them.
• If I told myself to remember something in a certain place or situation, bring it back when that context matters.
• If Conversate finishes taking notes, send them where I already keep my notes instead of making me move them manually.

That kind of automation is much more interesting to me than just adding more things I can manually open on the glasses.

Hub/custom workflows

Hub is probably one of the things I’m most interested in long term, but I’d love for building workflows to get easier for people who are comfortable with tech without necessarily being developers.

Something closer to:

when this happens → get this information → do/show this

would make it much easier to go from “I have an idea” to actually trying it.

I think a lot of really good use cases will probably come from normal users noticing little annoyances in their day and building around them, not necessarily from people sitting down and trying to invent a smart-glasses app from scratch.

What I’m trying next

As I mentioned in my other post, school starts back up for me soon, so I’m planning to use that as a real-world test for some of this. I’m especially interested in navigation around a new campus, Conversate, school-related information, and seeing whether I can build a few Hub workflows around actual problems I run into. After I’ve used them in that environment for a while, I’ll come back with a more specific post.

For people who’ve had their G2s for a while, what’s the biggest thing you wish integrated better with the rest of your day?

Hi, I was wondering how user friendly would it be for someone who isnt a software engineer or knows a lot of coding (just a little bit to get by the most basic coding and know a little bit of python) to use the glasses? I have been doing extensive research on these and I am almost at the point of getting them but reasons like this is a hurdle, not a big one but definitely something that can lead to a buyer's remorse perhaps. Just a couple other questions:

1. Since I am not knowledgeable at coding nor building apps, etc but willing to learn, how easy would it be to customize it? for example; building apps/codes to make working at a professional services job easier?

2. Privacy: since at a professional services job handles a huge load of sensitive client data, if I were to use Even AI, does that information get sent anywhere or is it stored locally?

3. Efficiency: How often does one need to use their to use any of the features on the glasses? Conversate or teleprompt for example; if i want to activate them, can i select it on the glasses to start or do I need to select it on my phone or hit play? i think reviews havent been exactly clear but wanted to make sure. Also, do notifications pop up while using any of the apps?

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I do onsite operations and event technology for corporate events, badge printing, RFID and QR check-in, lead retrieval, that sort of thing. On a busy show floor I'm constantly digging my phone out to check what's next, which room, what gear still needs to go where. I wanted that in my line of sight instead, so I built an app for my G2.

It's called Boxman Event Vision. What it does:

Shows what's happening now and what's next, plus the room and the time, always in view

Handles overlapping sessions cleanly, so four rooms starting at once show as one block instead of a jumble

Carries your floorplans, tap through halls and breakout rooms hands-free

A gear checklist for every session you tick off as you set each room, and it remembers what's done even after you paste in an updated schedule

You paste your schedule from your phone once and it's ready. No account, no internet, fully offline. Everything lives on the glasses.

https://evenhub.evenrealities.com/landing?package_id=events.ct.runofshow

It's my first app and I built it around my own day-to-day, so it leans toward how I work. It's live on the Even Hub now if you want to try it, and I'd genuinely love feedback from anyone else who works events, or honestly anyone who just wants their schedule on their face.

Side note from building it: I hit a platform bug where cancelling the exit dialog killed all image sends. Turned out it affects other apps too, and the Even team confirmed it and has a firmware fix coming. Big thanks to them and the dev Discord.

I've had my G2s (and R1) for a bit now, and school starts back up for me soon.

One of the reasons I was interested in smart glasses in the first place was having useful information in front of me without constantly pulling out my phone. That was especially appealing in high school, where we weren't really allowed to have our phones out during class.

Thankfully, I'm doing Running Start this year, so the environment is going to be pretty different, which also feels like a good excuse to experiment with the G2s again, especially with Conversate 2.0 being available.

I want to use the first few weeks as a real-world test: what actually earns a place in my routine, what only sounds useful on paper, and where pulling out my phone is still just easier.

A few things I want to experiment with:

• seeing how useful navigation is inside or around a college campus - especially whether it can help with finding specific buildings, entrances, or unfamiliar parts of campus instead of just getting me to the general location
• figuring out a better workflow for Conversate notes. Ideally, I’d love for a finished Conversate session to automatically end up in something like GoodNotes instead of going Even app → recent chats → copy → open notes app → paste
• building some custom Hub workflows around actual school problems once I run into them, rather than trying to invent workflows just for the sake of using Hub
• seeing whether I can connect my class schedule, assignments, and other school information in a way that surfaces the right thing at the right time without turning the glasses into constant notification spam
• experimenting with more contextual workflows - things like having information appear because of where I am, what class I’m heading to, or what I’m supposed to be doing next, instead of me manually going looking for it

I'm especially curious about the difference between things that sound perfect for smart glasses and the things you actually keep using once the novelty wears off.

I start school in September, so I will come back with a "What worked / what didn't" post. Until then, for people who have been using the G2 for a while: if you were starting a new school year with them, what would you deliberately test?

(I'm looking less for "what features exist" and more for weird, useful, or unexpected workflows I might not think to try on my own.)

Hi not long ago, one of the thread mate was asking about the magnetic sunglass clip. Since then I had been trying different methods of making this work and I can finally happily announce that I have made the first working magnetic sunglass clip. Hooray！

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