Even Realities G2 offers glimpse of Apple's future smart glasses

Two years of wearing Ray-Ban Meta glasses gave one clear picture of Apple's first-generation smart glasses. Weeks with the Even Realities G2, by contrast, offer a preview of something Apple isn't expected to ship for years: smart glasses with a built-in display.

According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple plans to unveil its first smart glasses, codenamed N50, at WWDC in June 2027, with a consumer launch later that year.

The first generation is expected to include a camera for Siri-powered visual intelligence, voice-read notifications and translation but no display; that capability isn't expected until a later model.

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G2 is available for purchase for $599, with a clip-on sunshade that will cost you an additional $99; weighing only 36 grams, it features waveguide technology for projecting a green monochrome display on both lenses.

Controlled through tiny trackpads in its arms, these spectacles can do live translation, turn-by-turn navigation, transcription, and notifications.

The translation feature is particularly notable in everyday life, having eye contact with a person you are talking to while hearing the translation of his/her words in the form of text is more natural than looking down at your phone.

However, both cycling and walking navigation are the biggest benefits that these glasses offer in comparison with phone usage, but there was one drawback that occurred all the time. Despite the fact that the screen is semi-transparent and consists of a couple of pixels in width, it kept distracting me while I was cycling.

Notifications and fast AI responses are some nice things to have but not necessary things, while the translation, despite its awesomeness, is used rarely.