The Smart Glasses I'd Actually Wear - Even Realities G2 — Transcript
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- 0:00Smart glasses. They have come quite a
- 0:02long way just in the past year or two. I
- 0:04mean, we went from devices that had big
- 0:06chunky bulky things on the front. I did
- 0:09not like that. As cool as it was, we've
- 0:11gone from that to sleek, sultry,
- 0:15stylish. About a year ago, I looked at
- 0:17the Even Realities G1 and I was I was
- 0:21pretty impressed because especially at
- 0:22that time, there was nothing really on
- 0:24the market [music] that was as sleek and
- 0:27nice and uh performative. And now we
- 0:31have Oh, the G2. Did you see that? I
- 0:33love they had the same kind of that was
- 0:36that's what they did before. They got
- 0:38the pizzazz. The G2 makes a number of
- 0:41discrete [music] improvements, but
- 0:42overall still looks sleek. Let's see
- 0:45what's in the box first. And also,
- 0:47what's in this box? This is a ring.
- 0:48There's a ring now. Hold your horses.
- 0:51Ooh, what do they write? I feel like I
- 0:53remember them writing something. Quietly
- 0:55extraordinary power for your everyday
- 0:57life. That makes me feel so good. What
- 1:00they're getting across here, though, is,
- 1:02you know, what I do like about these is
- 1:03that it's a product that is meant to
- 1:05try, it's trying to fit into normal life
- 1:07instead of trying to transform life into
- 1:10a horrible dystopia, which is, I think,
- 1:12better. got a quick guide that all looks
- 1:15very interesting, but I don't need to
- 1:17familiarize myself with it too much
- 1:19because spoiler alert, I have been using
- 1:21these for the past uh week or [music]
- 1:23two just to kind of understand. In the
- 1:25bottom of the box, we have once again a
- 1:28nice uh cleaning cloth here, folded
- 1:30wonderfully that I'm going to ruin a
- 1:33sleeved cable and that is, you know,
- 1:36that's three [music] that's three and
- 1:371/2 ft. I'm a scientist. I need to know
- 1:40these things. And in the middle we have
- 1:42uh temple sleeves and nose pads because
- 1:46the design of the even G1 and the G2 it
- 1:49is so sleek that some people might want
- 1:51some extra protection in between their
- 1:53skin and the metal. And we got safety
- 1:55and warranty information. But there's
- 1:58also the Even Realities R1, a smart
- 2:02ring. They did not have this the first
- 2:03go around. I love the unboxing
- 2:05experience. I got to say they're
- 2:07thinking about what it's going to be
- 2:08like. They're using empathy. So, there's
- 2:11the ring itself. It looks shiny. Look at
- 2:13that. There's all sorts of sensors in
- 2:14there. Can you see that? Ooh, there it
- 2:17is. Hold on. No, not yet. I'll do that
- 2:19after. Okay, this is the charging pad
- 2:22[music] for the ring. Oh, how long is
- 2:25it? That seems a bit longer, actually. 3
- 2:27and 1/2 ft plus a little bit.
- 2:29>> Measuring tape.
- 2:30>> Hair science.
- 2:31>> No, some parts of science are just
- 2:32vibes. And this just magnetically
- 2:34attaches on there like that. And if you
- 2:37plug the other end in, there's a little
- 2:39thing that'll light up. Trust me. Trust
- 2:41me. Safety and warranty information.
- 2:43Okay, ready? Got it. Okay, good. Let's
- 2:44look at the actual glasses themselves.
- 2:46They got [music] this magnetic uh
- 2:48closing case here and a USBC port on the
- 2:51back. And you just open it up. There's a
- 2:53magnetic thing on the back so it
- 2:55attaches. So, you can leave it open like
- 2:56that if you want to display it.
- 2:59Well, as you can see, you know, if I
- 3:01hide these the little dongle thing on
- 3:03the back that looks like a regular pair
- 3:04of glasses, doesn't it? Oh, did I see
- 3:06the display for a second? Oh, and they
- 3:07went away. But those are the wavegu
- 3:09displays. They're small. You can't even
- 3:11tell that there's display hardware
- 3:12really unless you look closely. If you
- 3:14saw the G1 video, you might be thinking
- 3:16those look exactly the same. BUT YOU'D
- 3:18BE WRONG because the temples are now
- 3:20built with full titanium and they're 53%
- 3:24thinner at 1.2 mm. The overall frame
- 3:27size is reduced by 20% and the end piece
- 3:31here is actually reduced size by 15%.
- 3:33So, there are differences and there are
- 3:36also differences on the inside which we
- 3:38will get to. But overall, when you look
- 3:40at them,
- 3:42I'm an even better wizard now than I was
- 3:44before. Oh, hold on. I forgot to mention
- 3:46a couple things. So, on the end piece
- 3:48here, that is where the touchpad is.
- 3:51There's tap controls. Double tap to go
- 3:53back. You can hold tap and hold to bring
- 3:55up the options within the UI. There's
- 3:58another touch pad on the other side, but
- 4:00they are interchangeable. You can use
- 4:01either touchpad. We have four
- 4:04microphones, two on the back and two on
- 4:06the front. I didn't mention you can also
- 4:08swipe on the uh on the touchpad back
- 4:11here, but there are no other controls.
- 4:13However, there are more controls on the
- 4:16smart ring on the R1. Enough is enough.
- 4:21Okay, as I put on the glasses, the
- 4:25display is there to greet me, and I can
- 4:27double tap on the ring to dismiss it. on
- 4:30the previous model to dismiss it, you'd
- 4:32have to be reaching back and if you were
- 4:34like looking at something, you're like,
- 4:36"Ah, no, I don't. The display's in the
- 4:37way." And you like keep touching your
- 4:39head. So, the R1 has this touch pad on
- 4:43it. As you can see, where these dots are
- 4:46on the edge of the ring, that's the uh
- 4:48[music] touch pad. So, you can swipe up
- 4:50and down on that. You can tap, you can
- 4:51double tap, you can tap and hold. But
- 4:53this isn't just a control ring. It also
- 4:55has a PPG sensor in there for heart rate
- 4:58and blood oxygen level as well as a skin
- 5:01temperature sensor and an accelerometer
- 5:03so it can track your steps and stuff
- 5:05because that is another new thing that
- 5:06the G2 has that the G1 did not. It can
- 5:09give you some insights on sleep. It's
- 5:11been tracking me and I'm actually a
- 5:12little bit scared to see what it finds.
- 5:14The ring itself is apparently made with
- 5:16a zirconia ceramic lined with medical
- 5:19grade stainless steel that even reality
- 5:22says gives it a silky smooth finish. One
- 5:25thing that I feel like I would actually
- 5:27like is some kind of texture to know if
- 5:30I'm if my thumb is on the touchpad. Most
- 5:32of the time you can tell because the top
- 5:34of the ring is flat and it has the Even
- 5:36Reality's uh logo on it. However, most
- 5:38of the time if I'm like, "Okay, I want
- 5:39the display up." I can just like double
- 5:41tap on the ring and it shows up and I
- 5:42can double tap back. So, as with the G1,
- 5:45the G2 uses what you might think of as
- 5:49sort of like a fighter jet heads up
- 5:50display with like everything displayed
- 5:52just in green. However, there have been
- 5:54some key improvements. It's a 75% larger
- 5:57display. And they also have some
- 5:58distance to it now. So, you can set it
- 6:00[music] to near or mid or far away.
- 6:02Maybe if you're outside, you set it to
- 6:04more far away because you'll be looking
- 6:06at things that far away and then you
- 6:07don't have to focus focus focus back.
- 6:09Here you can adjust the brightness of
- 6:10the display, which apparently goes up to
- 6:121,200 nits. I've had it actually
- 6:15basically as low as it goes because you
- 6:17[music] can I can see it. And the
- 6:19benefit of this particular kind of smart
- 6:22glasses is that it's not presenting me
- 6:24like a color screen, like an Android
- 6:27screen that like kind of blocks stuff
- 6:28out. I can see in between the [music]
- 6:30letters and stuff. So even if the
- 6:32display is right in front of me, I can
- 6:33still choose to kind of focus beyond it
- 6:35and see what's behind it. And even
- 6:37reality says that that's partially
- 6:38possible because of their holistic
- 6:40[music] adaptive optics technology. They
- 6:43say it's proprietary. Like they figured
- 6:45out how to make the microLEDD projectors
- 6:47and the wave guides and the lenses kind
- 6:49of work together so that everything
- 6:51stays very clear yet crisp. Those
- 6:53[music] are the same thing. If you must
- 6:55know, the resolution of the displays in
- 6:57each lens is 640x 350. But you're not
- 7:01going to be watching movies on these
- 7:02things. I [music] think that the G1 kind
- 7:03of took a bit more of an approach where
- 7:05you want to be present. You want to be
- 7:06looking at what's around you in the
- 7:08world and then if you want some
- 7:10information, you can kind of look up and
- 7:11see it and it's like, oh, okay, I'm
- 7:12[music] checking that and then you go
- 7:14back. You can still set the display so
- 7:15that it's like near the top of your
- 7:17view, but it being larger means that if
- 7:19you want more information there, it's
- 7:22[music] there. It is also nice to be
- 7:23able to have this dashboard that they
- 7:25have set up where you can see the clock
- 7:27and [music] the it shows you the
- 7:29temperature and your notification count
- 7:31and then these screens that you can
- 7:33swipe through. They've got news stocks
- 7:36you're following, your calendar at a
- 7:38glance, a task [music] list, and your
- 7:41health information. And you can tap into
- 7:43each of those things and get more
- 7:45information. [music] Let's see what else
- 7:46we got going on the in the app. So,
- 7:48there's a moon button over here. That's
- 7:50silent mode. So, you can just turn the
- 7:51display off entirely. You can turn it
- 7:53back on by touching and holding on the
- 7:56touch pads at the back. Here's where you
- 7:58can customize your dashboard. You can
- 8:00choose specific news sources to add or
- 8:02you can just say, "Okay, I want
- 8:04generally business, science, and
- 8:05technology, the only things that
- 8:07matter." And then calendar. This will by
- 8:09default sync with your Google calendar
- 8:12on Android and with your Apple calendar
- 8:15on iOS. If you're wondering what this
- 8:17head-up display, it was in the G1 as
- 8:19well. If you want to activate the
- 8:20display, you can look up. Oh, I'm
- 8:22getting too much reality. I need to
- 8:23connect to the internet in some way.
- 8:25There it is. By default, the display
- 8:27will turn off by itself after 10
- 8:29seconds, but you can modify that to go
- 8:30down to 3 seconds or just never. You
- 8:33always want to be in the matrix. You're
- 8:35It's cipher. Other than that, though, we
- 8:36got some familiar features. Translate,
- 8:39live translation. We're going to test
- 8:40that out. Teleprompting, navigating with
- 8:43maps, quick list, which is like notes,
- 8:46and even AI, which is like a chatbot.
- 8:48But there's also a new feature called
- 8:50Conversate, which will run while you're
- 8:54having a conversation [music] and
- 8:56transcribe everything that's happening
- 8:57and also pull up interesting notes using
- 9:00AI. I had it listen in during a writer's
- 9:03meeting. [music] And it was kind of
- 9:05funny. [laughter]
- 9:06After it picks up all that stuff, you
- 9:08can scroll to the bottom here and it'll
- 9:09have concepts, suggestions, bios, and
- 9:12it'll have bios of the people that were
- 9:14[music] mentioned in the meeting. Elijah
- 9:15is a prophet in the Hebrew Bible. That's
- 9:18our Elijah. Context suggests Mark is
- 9:20involved in the team's work and needs to
- 9:22figure something out tomorrow with a
- 9:24speaker. So, that's going to be a big
- 9:26task for Mark. You can also access the
- 9:28raw transcript, which I felt like was
- 9:30pretty accurate. You can set this
- 9:32feature to use either the phone
- 9:34microphone or the microphone on the Even
- 9:36G2. And I was using the phone
- 9:38microphone. My phone was on my desk.
- 9:39There were people talking like halfway
- 9:42across the room behind my chair and it
- 9:44was picking it up like pretty well.
- 9:46There were a couple times where I was
- 9:47like, "Okay, that person mumbled a
- 9:49little bit and it got confused, but
- 9:50overall I was like, "Wow, I'm going to
- 9:52come back and and hold this against you
- 9:55big time [music] later." Up above the
- 9:56bio section, though, you're going to
- 9:58have key points and then you can also go
- 10:01and [music] check off action items. I'm
- 10:03not personally in a lot of situations
- 10:05where I'm going to be using this, but I
- 10:07can see people, you know, like in kind
- 10:09of more corporate settings where they're
- 10:11like, "Oh, we need to we had a lot of
- 10:13stuff [music] discussed conversating."
- 10:14Now, when I was in that conversation,
- 10:17uh, I could see everything popping up as
- 10:19it was happening, but you can also turn
- 10:21that off. So, [music] while the
- 10:22conversation is happening, maybe the
- 10:24transcript is going, but you don't, you
- 10:25know, you're not being distracted
- 10:26[music] by like, and Mark is going to do
- 10:28this, and you're like, "Oh, oh, that's
- 10:30who Mark is." And that kind of goes
- 10:31along with like even G2's whole approach
- 10:34here to smart glasses that I find so
- 10:37interesting. These are not a pair of
- 10:39glasses that is meant for you to [music]
- 10:41scroll your Instagram reels on. They're
- 10:43meant to be kind of a functional tool
- 10:45that like you can just kind of plug into
- 10:47your normal life and get some helpful
- 10:49information while also again I can't
- 10:51emphasize this enough wearing a pair of
- 10:53glasses that looks normal. Sort of.
- 10:55Maybe I wouldn't call this normal. Maybe
- 10:56I look classy. Do I look like I'm going
- 10:58to deny your application to be a museum
- 11:00curator? You're an alter.
- 11:02>> You look way [music] more pretentious
- 11:05than that.
- 11:05>> Thank you. The other brand new feature
- 11:07in the app here is the health section.
- 11:09You can have my whole biology laid bare
- 11:11for you guys here. I did 193 steps,
- 11:14which is not very many, but I was taking
- 11:16the ring off and putting it on. Okay, I
- 11:18haven't I haven't worn it straight for
- 11:19two weeks. I'm sorry. What is this? I've
- 11:21burned 1,600 cal kilo calories. Hey,
- 11:24even
- 11:26what does kal stand for? It's a unit
- 11:29unit of energy. To measure the energy
- 11:32content of food, it is equivalent to
- 11:331,000 [music] calories, small calories.
- 11:35By the way, that was the even AI that is
- 11:38uh available. You can turn on or off the
- 11:41wake word. So, it's listening, but it's
- 11:43a hey even. And it is it's a it's a
- 11:45chatbot. And it is not as much of a
- 11:48personal assistant as it is meant to be
- 11:51used for information. So, you can't ask
- 11:54it to like text people back, but you can
- 11:56ask it to take a note. You can tell it
- 11:59to start translate. You can tell it to
- 12:01use the specific features, but it's not
- 12:03going to be like a Google Assistant kind
- 12:05of like everything assistant, which
- 12:08again kind of goes with the philosophy
- 12:10here. But back to the ring. It can give
- 12:13you some information about your sleep,
- 12:15except I didn't wear it while I was
- 12:16sleeping. But up here, we have a
- 12:18productivity score. Flex how well your
- 12:20body is prepared [music] for focus and
- 12:21energy today based on signals from
- 12:23yesterday's sleep. I actually didn't
- 12:25know that I was supposed to be wearing
- 12:26it when I sleep. I'm sorry. Now, I know
- 12:27you're wondering, so let's uh let's
- 12:29check out live translate. One of our new
- 12:31writers here, Sean Frey. So, you lived
- 12:34in Germany for how long?
- 12:35>> For seven years.
- 12:36>> And your German is
- 12:37>> not good. [laughter]
- 12:38>> Okay. So, it's going to show on the
- 12:40phone and I can see the words popping up
- 12:42on my display just in case I wanted to
- 12:44know what I was saying in German. But
- 12:46you go now.
- 12:47>> Hello, Riley.
- 12:52Deutseland.
- 12:53>> Riley, my German is still poor. very
- 12:55much like that in Germany. Please,
- 12:58please, please. I have to go to the
- 12:59bathroom right now. Is there anywhere
- 13:01close? I'm going to burst out of my
- 13:03pants here.
- 13:04>> Okay, come.
- 13:06>> Okay, come to the bathrooms. That's a
- 13:08bit [laughter] But regardless,
- 13:10>> my German is broken.
- 13:11>> You know what, Sean? Your German may be
- 13:13broken, but that feature certainly
- 13:15isn't.
- 13:16>> Oh, it's so embarrassing.
- 13:17>> Let's go to Germany. Okay.
- 13:19>> Oh, god.
- 13:20>> Teleprompt is the other one that I
- 13:22remember being very impressed by. And
- 13:24this one actually is kind of even more
- 13:27promising because it's [music] a bigger
- 13:28display. And before I had to because the
- 13:31display was smaller and it was a little
- 13:33higher up, I had to kind of like angle
- 13:35my head. So I was looking at the camera
- 13:36like that. But now it can go right in
- 13:39front of [music] where I'm looking here.
- 13:40So like I am looking at the camera as if
- 13:42I'm hosting a techn uh [music] video.
- 13:45And it's worth noting that in the
- 13:46settings you can set it to scroll manual
- 13:50that you can control either with the
- 13:52touchpad on the on the ring to scroll up
- 13:54and down or you can also connect a
- 13:57external remote control. Then there's
- 13:58this AI mode which autoscrolls as it
- 14:01hears you say the script as you go. So
- 14:04I'm going to use that one. I'm going to
- 14:06start. I'm in AI mode but I can still
- 14:08scroll with the ring. This video is
- 14:10about inviting 50 strangers to try and
- 14:12stay inside a giant jello cube. the
- 14:14longest and the winner gets $100. You
- 14:17thought it was about tech news, but I
- 14:18tricked you, but really it is about tech
- 14:20news and I've just tricked you again.
- 14:22This I mean I got to say this is very
- 14:24useful and as someone who reads off a
- 14:25teleprompter almost every day except in
- 14:28these videos which is why they're so
- 14:31unhinged. So the navigate feature is
- 14:34here once more and it's primarily
- 14:36focused on walking and cycling
- 14:38directions. [music] Not going to lie, I
- 14:40did try to use it for driving. not super
- 14:42useful cuz it kept telling me to take a
- 14:44bike path. Apparently cyclists don't
- 14:46like that. One thing to know about the
- 14:48navigate feature though is that [music]
- 14:50in some areas it might be more useful
- 14:52than in others because even realities
- 14:54works with a navigation provider who
- 14:56heavily relies on open street map data.
- 14:59It doesn't have the depth of information
- 15:01and depth of uh you know routes that
- 15:04Google maps will have. Apparently people
- 15:05in other locations have had uh better
- 15:07experiences with it. So, [music]
- 15:09your mileage may vary with Navigate, but
- 15:11if you are in a location where it does
- 15:13work well, it's a pretty nice experience
- 15:15being able to have a map up there with
- 15:17directions as you're walking. You can
- 15:19kind of just like [music] follow it and
- 15:20it's just kind of there if you want it.
- 15:22And lastly, there's the quick list here
- 15:23where you can make a note. [music] I
- 15:25don't need to make notes most of the
- 15:27time, but I did need to remind myself to
- 15:29shoot this video, so I did ask even to
- 15:31make that note and it did. And here we
- 15:34are. So, that's kind of an overview of
- 15:36the features, but I cannot reiterate
- 15:37enough how wearing these does not feel
- 15:41like wearing smart glasses. [music] I've
- 15:43done a few of them on this channel, and
- 15:45by far, especially having done the G1
- 15:47and now the G2, like [music] I can wear
- 15:49these at my desk. I can wear these
- 15:51moving around the office and doing
- 15:53stuff, being able to see notifications
- 15:55pop up. I don't I forget that I'm
- 15:57wearing the smart glasses. And that's
- 15:59partially due to the nextG lenses that
- 16:02they've got in here. They're 30% thinner
- 16:04than the ones in the G1 while not losing
- 16:07anything clarity-wise [music]
- 16:08because they used over 100 layers in
- 16:12here somehow. How is that? Did you see
- 16:15that? And you may have noticed that I
- 16:16just swapped from my regular glasses to
- 16:18these because they're my prescription.
- 16:20So, you can send them your [music]
- 16:21prescription and they'll send you your
- 16:23glasses with the lenses in them like
- 16:25they're normal glasses. They cover
- 16:26prescriptions from plus 12 to negative
- 16:28-12 and they have digital surfacing
- 16:31available for people with a stigmatism
- 16:33or myopia and they use for the digital
- 16:36serving they use a diamond tipped lathe.
- 16:38Even reality says that you can expect
- 16:40these to last for 2 days but they've
- 16:42lasted longer for me because I haven't
- 16:44worn them for the entire workday because
- 16:45one thing that I haven't noted that you
- 16:47should be aware of is because of these
- 16:49dongles on the back overear headphones
- 16:51may not fit all the way around. I like
- 16:53to wear noise cancelling headphones so I
- 16:55can focus and also so people know not to
- 16:58approach me. But if you're wearing them
- 17:00all day and you're using them
- 17:01constantly, uh 2 days of battery life,
- 17:04the case uh holds a maximum of seven
- 17:07full glasses charges in it. And the ring
- 17:10has a 4day battery life and I have not
- 17:12run into any problems with every time
- 17:14I've picked them up. You know, maybe
- 17:15they weren't at 100% but I've never had
- 17:17to be like, "Ah, I got to charge them."
- 17:18[music] So pretty good. And I didn't
- 17:21even know this, but apparently they have
- 17:22an IP65 rating now. And I went out in
- 17:24the rain and it was splashing on me and
- 17:26I was a little worried, but I guess I
- 17:28shouldn't have been. Now, as I said, the
- 17:29Even Reality's G2 is entering into a
- 17:32world now in which smart glasses are
- 17:34kind of becoming more of a thing. There
- 17:36are these options out there that will
- 17:38become more available with [music] like
- 17:40full color displays and stuff. And these
- 17:42are like you're asking yourself, you
- 17:43know, I want to I want to exist in the
- 17:46metaverse. I think Mark Zuckerberg and
- 17:48those guys have it right.
- 17:50But the thing that remains interesting
- 17:52to me about these is A, they look like
- 17:53real glasses. B, they aren't trying to
- 17:56take up your entire attention. They're
- 17:58trying to give you some useful
- 17:59information and kind of back out like an
- 18:02actual assistant would. If you have a
- 18:03personal assistant, you don't want like
- 18:05to only talk to them all the time. You
- 18:07want to talk to everybody that you
- 18:08normally talk to in your life and have
- 18:09your assistant be like, "Message just
- 18:11came in."
- 18:13They'll be like, "Thank you. Now go
- 18:15away." So whether that's interesting to
- 18:17you uh will be up to you to decide. And
- 18:20it'll also be up to you to decide
- 18:22whether these are worth the $600 price
- 18:24point. If you want the prescription
- 18:26lens, it's $160, uh extra for that. And
- 18:29the ring goes for $250. So altogether,
- 18:32you know, it's not a small investment.
- 18:35[music]
- 18:36Uh but for people who have a lot going
- 18:39on, they need to [music] get information
- 18:42delivered to them that's not too
- 18:43distracting. I can see the argument for
- 18:45it, especially if you're looking to not
- 18:47draw tons of attention to the glasses
- 18:49that you're wearing, except in a good
- 18:51way. But at the end of the day, I can't
- 18:53tell you what to do except to tell you
- 18:56to subscribe to Short Circuit. Thanks
- 18:57again to Even Realities for sending
- 18:59these over for us to take a look at. And
- 19:01if you're looking for another video to
- 19:02watch, uh, I guess watch maybe the
- 19:04previous one, the G1 or the any other
- 19:07video you pick.
- 19:10The world's your oyster.
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