Even Realities G2 walks out of CES 2026 with the most convincing smart glasses argument all week

The smart glasses pitch since 2014 has been: put a camera in your face. Even Realities is the company that built its identity on doing the opposite. The G2 is their second-generation display glasses, and at CES 2026 they walked out with a “Best of Show”, a rare honor for a $599 pair of glasses that looks, to nearly everyone, like nothing more than glasses.

The G2 has no camera, no external speaker, no flashing indicator. What it has is a 3D floating display tuned to look like a soft heads-up overlay above your real-world view, bright enough to be readable in daylight, dim enough to disappear when you’re not using it. Controls live on a frame-mounted touch sensor and on the new R1 companion smart ring that Even released alongside, which lets you swipe and tap through prompts without putting a finger on your face.

Software is what makes the difference between a novelty and a tool. The G2 ships with five real applications: Conversate (real-time dialogue assistance, which acts as a coach reminding you of names and topics), Translate (live subtitling of foreign-language speech in your field of view), Teleprompt (a script you can read while looking up), Transcribe (full audio capture and transcript) and Even AI (a Gemini-flavored assistant). None of these requires you to pick up a phone.

The price, $599 for the glasses, more for the R1, puts the G2 well above the Meta Ray-Ban Display ($799) on perceived value, and a long way below the rumored Apple smart glasses everyone is waiting for. The right comparison isn’t actually any of those. It’s a pair of prescription glasses with one extra trick.

Available now from Even Realities.