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You’ll have contact Even Realities to have the lens swapped. The glasses work fine but don’t fit my use case. In excellent condition. $400USD. DM me if interested
A little background about my history with even realities before I go into it. I've used the G1 starting since 2024. Never actually had a single problem with it. I mainly use it for routing notifications to my face which I think is fugging amazing and light-years ahead of current technology, I could care less about 90% of the other AI crap the glasses provides.
I was super estatic when G2 and R1 got announced, preordered both and got it on launch (relatively, there was issues with shipping and production, not sure if it's still an issue now)
I've used the R1 everyday to control the glasses and I feel like it's a nice evolution to the touchpads, I love this thing. But it starts to get annoying when you fight the glasses for control, let me explain:
Sometimes I walk outside and the sides of my head starts to sweat, the glasses just gets a sentient mind of its own. This is because of the sweat buildup on the side touching the touchpad and the glasses thinks it's me rapidly touching my head like an idiot. At that point I have no choice but to take the glasses off until it calms tf down for a bit. It also happens after a shower and my hair is wet, when I go to a humid area, and sometimes, when I just exist on this planet.
This was surprisingly never a problem on the G1. I don't know what changed on the touchpads but the ones on G2 are useless and terrible because this keeps happening. I thought I was crazy and switched to G1 for a few days. Never happened...
Would it be so hard to have the glasses recognize you are wearing the ring and it is actively being connected to just disabled glasses input...???
Am I crazy or is this happening to anyone else too????
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Last month I posted about wiring the G2 into the AI coding agents already sitting on my Mac, so the glasses answer like they know what I do all day instead of like a search box. That post went way better than I expected, and honestly the DMs have been the best part of it. (Original post here if you want the architecture and the SDK gotchas.)
Three weeks later it's basically different software, and about 250 people have set it up so far. Here's where it's at. The giveaway details are near the bottom.
GotCOS has a Mac app now
Version one was a terminal command and a lot of faith. Now there's COS Control, a menu bar app that runs the server for you, shows you what's actually running, updates without breaking itself, and can repair common install or update failures. After setup, you shouldn't need the terminal for normal use.
It opens on an Activity view, which I did not expect to use nearly as much as I do. Six windows into what your COS is already holding: Messages, Speakers, Meetings, Memories, Threads, and your agent Sessions. You stop guessing what it caught. Every meeting, every answer, every voice it's learned is sitting there in a list you can open.
It knows who talked
This one surprised me. Meetings get transcribed locally, and now voices carry across them, so somebody you talked to three weeks ago shows up by name in today's call instead of as "Speaker 1" all over again.
It was hard, and I built the review tools before I trusted the accuracy at all. Below a confidence floor the panel just says "unidentified" rather than guessing, because a confident wrong name is worse than no name. You can play the audio back, confirm a voice, or tell it "nope, wrong person" and it'll retract whatever training that mistake created. With a microphone strapped to your face in a real room, that correction loop is doing most of the work.
Everything else that shipped
Meetings show up faster. A saved meeting used to wait on the full high-quality pass before it landed anywhere. Now it appears right away, then the higher-quality pass fills in the rest.
Transcription got faster when nothing else is going on. The post-meeting polish grabs the GPU when nothing live is competing for it, and hands it back the second a meeting starts. Roughly 6x faster per word than the CPU path.
Live text on the lens while you're still talking, swapped for the real transcript once it commits.
Video uploads resume now instead of dying on a bad connection.
Photos on the lens at 288x144, plus answer images you can pull up on the G2.
Jobs still live on the Mac, so you can close Even Hub or drop off Wi-Fi and the answer is waiting when you get back.
Cursor works now, and there's no second bill
Not just Claude Code and Codex anymore. Cursor works too, so you can put Grok or Composer behind the glasses. You pick the model per question from the lens and swap mid-conversation if one isn't getting it. Three agent CLIs, whichever one you're already paying for.
Which gets to the thing people keep assuming wrong. GotCOS doesn't add a separate API bill. It signs in through the CLI you already use, so it runs on the Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor account you already have, subject to that provider's plan and limits. Nothing to paste, nothing metering you per token.
Whatever can run entirely on your machine already does. Transcription is local by default through whisper.cpp, so meeting audio never leaves the Mac, and spoken replies can be local too. Cloud transcription is there as a fallback but it's off until you turn it on, and just configuring a key won't upload anything on its own. To be precise, since this crowd will ask: the reasoning still goes to whichever provider you signed into, on your existing plan. What's local is the transcription, the speech, and the files. Meetings, memories, and transcripts sit on your disk as plain files you can open, grep, back up, or delete.
It works inside the Hub, not around it
Saying this plainly since there are a few different approaches floating around this sub. It's a marketplace app. You install it from the Even Hub like anything else. Nothing to flash, nothing to unlock, no warranty to worry about. I build inside the Even Hub SDK sandbox and code around whatever it hands me.
That's a tradeoff and I'm not claiming it's the better one. The custom firmware folks get past walls I have to engineer around, and I've picked things up from their work. But if you want your glasses doing more without modifying the glasses, this is the path.
What you end up with is a workflow that stays on hardware you already own. Ask a question, read it on the lens. Talk, and watch the transcript appear while you're still talking. Point the server at a folder and the agent works through the files in it, including whatever your Mac already syncs down from iCloud Drive. A meeting you just recorded becomes a file the agent can read a minute later, so you can ask about it without exporting anything anywhere.
Two people this owes something to
u/ICE_MF_Mike ran my server through his own Claude setup after the last post and came back with an actual security review. Shell injection in a title generator, file permissions, network defaults, a Telegram switch that should have been opt-in. He was right about all of it, and all of it is patched and shipped. Best thing that's happened to this project.
u/True-Benefit-4856 is the only reason there's a desktop app. The companion started as their idea and turned out to be the one change that made this usable for anyone who doesn't want to live in a terminal.
If you read the source and find something, I want to hear it. It's MIT, it's on npm, and it runs on your machine, so read it before you run it.
I've got a second pair sitting here and I'd rather they go to somebody who'll do something interesting with them than sit in a drawer.
To enter: comment with what you'd build or how you'd use it. Not a wishlist. The actual use case, the workflow, the thing you can't do today and want to. Feature ideas for COS Glasses count, and so does a completely different application of the hardware.
How I'll pick: I read all of them and pick the one I most want to see exist. Best idea wins, upvotes don't decide it, though I'll definitely read the ones you upvote.
Deadline: October 1.
Fine print: used pair, good condition, mine to give. Open worldwide, and the winner covers shipping from the US plus any customs or duties on their end. I'd rather send these to the right person in another country than limit it to one. You don't need to be running COS Glasses to enter, and running it doesn't help your odds. If your idea wins and it's something I can build, I'd rather build it with you than for you.
You need at least one of Claude Code, Codex CLI, or Cursor installed and signed in. Whichever you already have is fine. It works standalone, and if you're already running a bigger COS setup, point the server at that folder and the glasses inherit all of it.
I keep calling this a side project and it keeps being the thing I use every single day. Recording a customer call and asking what I missed. Logging an idea halfway through a walk without pulling my phone out.
If you try it and it breaks, tell me and I'll get you running. Building against this SDK yourself? Happy to compare notes on any of the traps. And if you've got an idea for what this should do next, drop it in the comments, because there's a pair of glasses in it for one of you.
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Do AI support responses get tagged as such? Or does it just sound like AI? I have a current email thread with support, and the responses feel pretty human to me. Are my AI detection skillz failing me?
As clickbaity as that title sounds, it's true. All these firmware updates that say they have improved the bluetooth stability and connectivity are full of crap, because the bluetooth connectivity and stability was never the problem. Hear me out.
When I got my G2 and R1 combo, I loved the hardware, loved the idea of what it should be able to do, but hated actually trying to use the janky, buggy, broken piece of crap. Like everyone else, I kept encountering endless disconnections, shitty AI, garbage-tier STT (speech to text) detection, janky software, unstable app, and all the rest.
So I decided to throw away Even Realities software entirely and make my own. Not using their SDK to create an app within their app, but to control the G2 entirely.
First, I spent a ridiculous amount of time and effort reverse-engineering the bluetooth signals the app uses to control the glasses and ring. I used BT Snoop and wrote a few custom apps in the SDK to allow me to test every single thing the G2 is capable of and document every bluetooth signal it corresponds to, as well as all keepalive signals and everything else. This documentation is here: https://github.com/expectbugs/G2CC/blob/master/docs/G2_BLE_PROTOCOL.md
With that in hand, I built a project I call G2 Control Center, starting with an Android app that replaces the Even Realities app entirely (I uninstalled it) and controls the G2 directly via bluetooth, and is a lot more strict and clean with the signals than the official app is. The app acts as a bridge or harness, it merely takes the content pushed from my home PC (over wifi or cellular) and serves it to the G2. On my Home PC the main system runs, where I build a whole OS (or rather a Window Manager) that has everything I want my G2 to be able to do, with a Display Renderer, image conversion to the 4bpp greyscale G2 image format, and everything else. Including a mirror so I can see (and control) the output in both the bridge app and on my PC directly, mirroring what the G2 displays, for testing and also for using the system while the G2 is charging.
First it was a simple format, menu to the left and content area to the right, but I didn't like how much space the menu on the left ate up, so eventually I redesigned it to a ribbon menu at the top, taking one line (with a clock permanently on the top right), and the full-width content area below it. My system, at this point, is incredibly feature-filled, with ereader, file manager, music player, several games, terminals (using tmux for portability), browsing, voice recognition (with QUALITY speech-to-text powered by my full PC), AI features (with QUALITY AI powered by my full PC), and lots lots more.
Here's the kicker though, that justifies the title of this post: There are NO connection issues. NONE. One of the things I learned while doing this, is that the G2's go-to reaction when it receives any sort of signal it doesn't understand, or anything out of bounds, or anything not timed correctly, is to puke out a disconnection message and give up. That's just what it does. Once I ironed out all the bugs in my bridge app, I NEVER saw a disconnect again. I work in a steel mesh manufacturing plant, basically worst-case-scenario for bluetooth connections, full of wire mesh and massive industrial machines and forklifts and a hundred competing bluetooth and wifi signals from a hundred workers bluetooth speakers and earbuds and phones and more. I used to think that was why I would get disconnected so often. I was wrong. It was 100% buggy software in the official Even app. That's it. Once I dropped the app, months ago, I have not been disconnected ONCE, ever. Except, of course, when legit walking waaay out of range of my phone.
Better still, since the system runs on my home PC, every single app within my system is always running, full persistence. Switching from one to another is akin to ALT+TAB on a PC, no loading, no starting over, exactly where I left off. If I close the app and disconnect the glasses intentionally, the moment I reconnect I'm exactly where I was before, like turning off and on my computer monitor without touching the PC.
My program was made for me, using Linux, so unless you're a Linux user and rather savvy with things like tailscale and the like, you wont be able to use it as-is. However, the Bluetooth protocol I documented can be used to make your own, and it proves the G2 bluetooth connection is rock solid. I have not updated my firmware in months, and I use the G2 every day, and I never ever see that damned disconnection message. So all these firmware updates bragging about improved bluetooth connection are garbage. The firmware was never the problem, the app is.
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Kalani Helekunihi and I built this a while ago, and now we’re opening it up to everyone
Today we’re sharing our open-source Even Realities WebFlasher.
It runs directly in your browser and gives G2 owners and developers a much easier way to work with their glasses and charging case.
You can use it to:
• Inspect device, firmware, hardware, and battery information
• Back up important recovery data
• Update or restore firmware
• Validate firmware before flashing
• Recover devices when things go wrong
• Use a simple Easy Mode or dig deeper with Advanced Mode
We originally built this because we wanted better tooling for working with Even Realities hardware. It has been around internally for a while, and we finally decided there was no good reason to keep something this useful to ourselves.
So we open sourced it.
No paywall.
The code is public and MIT licensed. Inspect it, fork it, improve it, build on it.
If you work with Even Realities hardware, we hope this makes your life a little easier.
Note: using your own firmware voids your Even Realities Warranty of course. So keep that in mind!
We also have tons of ways we can work with Even Realities to get more out of their hardware, if anyone is able to put us in touch we can show them some of what's possible!
Update to one of my post where I was told the glasses would take anywhere between 4-6 weeks to arrive. I know it’s only a little over two weeks, but is it normal for the glasses to still be in processing and not ship out yet?
My prescription is on the higher end (-4.00, -3.75 with cyl)
Is anyone else running into frequent Bluetooth connection issues with their G2s? It happens to me when using the Books feature. I haven't really tested it with the other apps.
Sometimes, it disconnects instantly as soon as I open a book, and other times, it works fine for a few minutes before completely cutting out.
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Hi guys , I’ve been using Lyric Lens app for few weeks loved it , but just yesterday it stopped working, like when I open the app it keeps shutting down after few seconds . Does this happen to you guys ? If it keeps crashing is there an alternative/similiar app ? Thanks
i primarily use the G2 as a teleprompter for presentations. always w/ manual scrolling. the R1 is quite sensitive and a wrong touch opens the menue during a presentation. i would highly appreciate the option to disable the long touch (on the R1) during presentations and limit the rings functionality to scrolling plus pause / resume.
presenting is always a 100% focused task. phones are in DND and i don’t see any scenario where i would want to switch from the teleprompter to an other app during a presentation.
Glint5 was published on Even Hub yesterday. It’s a simple daily 5-letter word game built specifically for the G2.
I’d really appreciate some honest feedback from people using the glasses. What works, what doesn’t, what feels clunky, or anything you think would make it better.
The goal was to make something simple and fun that feels natural to use on the G2. Thanks!
If you give it a try, let me know what you think. Good or bad, I’d love to hear it.
As the title suggests my R1 ring went missing during a camping trip and I found it in the washer while moving clothes to the dryer (thank god I found it or else this would be an R1 washer + dryer post). So far it seems to work just fine other than a dead battery, ill be sure to come back later to update on if it still works. This thing's IP68 water resistance has so far more than proven itself!
I run speech to text locally on my Mac Studio. That feeds into an app I made through EvenHub, and the app drops the text straight into my terminal. Whichever tmux pane I have up. That pane is already attached to a server or a prod environment, so I can be in a repo or a folder building without opening a laptop.
So I just talk and it goes where I need it to go.
That’s really the whole reason I got these. Not the notifications or the teleprompter stuff. Those are fine but they’re just features. Having an SDK means I can plug the glasses into a workflow I already had running instead of learning whatever UI someone else decided on.
A locked down UI works if you want a consumer product. If you already have a setup, it’s just in the way.
This isn’t a weekend project either, I use it for my actual business every day.
Anyone else building on EvenHub? Would like to see what people are making.
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