10 Hacks Every Even Realities G2 Smart Glasses User Should Know

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Even Realities G2 glasses are the most hacker-friendly spectacles on the planet, and it's not even close. They're unassuming enough that nobody clocks you as the guy wearing a face-computer, but there's a ton happening behind the silent display. Out of the box, you can translate, navigate, talk to AI, and do other expected smart-glasses stuff, but Even Hub takes it further. Even Realities opened up a real developer platform that lets anyone build whatever they want for their glasses and share it with everyone else. Hackers, rejoice. Here are ten hacks for your G2s, comprising useful and wondrous Even Hub apps, five-minute installs and tweaks, and weekend-long projects that will test your coding skills and capacity for frustration. There's a second brain that remembers what most AI forgets, a sneaky way to make yourself insufferably good at trivia, and even an option for a second career as a magician.

Customize your AI to create a "second brain"

This project really highlights the possibilities of Even Realities glasses. G2's come with Even AI ready to go, but you're not limited to it. Not only can you use the settings in the app to redirect the AI to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or another LLM, you can build a custom AI for your needs. For instance, Constella founder Tejas Sharma was frustrated by Even AI's inability to remember things, so they built a "second brain" by re-routing the AI to a layered version of Constella (an open knowledge base) running on their network.

Running Second Brain instead of Even AI means you can say something like, "Remember to pick up the dry cleaning every Wednesday," and it will be saved to your knowledge base. Later you can ask, "what was I supposed to do on Wednesday?" out loud, and a full AI agent searches your memory (using hybrid vector and keyword search), pulls in your connected tools if relevant, and hands you back a real composed answer formatted to fit cleanly on the lens.

You can also use meeting mode, where your glasses stream your mic and transcribe what's said onto the lens seconds behind the conversation. While you're still talking, the backend quietly digs through your memory, follows relevant connections, checks the web if it's useful, and surfaces a synthesized insight—which is a little like thinking. So if you're in a meeting and a coworker says, "Can we push the squash game until Wednesday?" your glasses cross-reference the statement against your memory in the background and silently surface: "Wednesday is dry cleaning pickup."

Second Brain was uploaded to the G2's Even Hub so you could use it as is, but Sharma's put the whole integration layer on GitHub, so if you're comfortable with some Python, you can see exactly how it talks to the glasses and build a variant on top of your own knowledge base.

Two ways to use G2's for instant two-factor authentication

We all know we should be using two-factor authentication (2FA), but grabbing your phone, unlocking it, and pulling up Messenger every time you want to log into Slack is a pain. There are two ways to make this easier:

No software method: Open the Even app on your phone, go to Settings > Notifications, and enable notifications. When an SMS message arrives, you'll be able to read the number floating in front of you. Type it in and you "two-factored" without pulling out your phone.

The software solution: A developer in the Even Realities community created a dedicated app for this, 2Factor. Instead of waiting for a ping, you scan your 2FA QR codes into the app during setup. When it's time to log in, you can pull up your constantly updating, time-based OTP (one-time password) tokens directly from the glasses' menu. It is essentially Google Authenticator built straight into your eyeballs.

Turn your glasses into your own coding supervisor

If you use autonomous AI coding agent Claude Code to build software, you know the biggest hassle isn't the AI writing the code, it's "babysitting" it. AI agents constantly pause to request permission before executing commands or editing files, tethering you to your keyboard with the simple job of saying, "yes" or "no." With the G2’s native Terminal Mode, you can mirror your computer’s terminal directly onto your glasses and act as a supervisor while grabbing coffee, pacing the room, or knitting.

Install the CLI bridge: On your computer, open your terminal and install the official Even package globally: npm install -g @evenrealities/even-terminal.

Launch your session: Start your AI coding agent on your computer, then run even-terminal. A pairing QR code will print directly inside your terminal window.

Pair your glasses: Open the Even Realities app on your phone, go to Settings > Terminal Mode, and scan the QR code off your computer screen to link the session.

Supervise on the move: Your computer's live terminal logs will now stream straight to your heads-up display in real time. Whenever your AI agent hits a checkpoint or asks for permission to execute a script, the prompt pops up in your line of sight—allowing you to approve the action using voice commands or glasses gestures so the build keeps moving forward.

Learn to bow correctly with Ojigi Coach

If you're panicking because you've been invited to a traditional chakai tea gathering in Kanazawa tomorrow, and you don't know anything about Japanese etiquette, try Ojigi Coach. It's an app from the Even Hub that offers in-depth training and practice for ojigi, Japanese bowing. You'll learn the correct angle for each of the three main bow types, how long to keep your head down, and what situations call for you to bust out an eshaku, a keirei, or a saikeirei.

That would be enough, but it also lets you test your bowing skills by presenting real-life choose-a-bow situations like "you greet your boss in the morning" or "you meet a former teacher after a long time." You bow, then your glasses' accelerometer and inertial measurement unit track your bow's angle and duration and offer you pointers. It's not only a fascinating glimpse into a tiny aspect of another culture, but it's fun: trying to get your bows correct is a blast. Ojigi Coach is representative of many of the most interesting apps on the Even Hub: perhaps not obviously useful to many people, but essential to a few.

Create instant subtitles for TV and movies and hear dialogue in a noisy room

The standard G2 Translate app is geared for bilingual conversations, but there's a simple way to turn it into a private subtitle machine for foreign films, anime, and TV shows: open the Translate app, set the language, and start watching a Korean soap opera. But you can make it even better.

Switch your mic source: By default, the glasses use their built-in microphones to pick up voices. Open the Translate feature in the Even app and look in the upper right corner. Tap the microphone icon to switch the sound source from the Even G2 to your phone's microphone.

Place your phone: Set your phone down near your TV's soundbar or your laptop's speakers so it can capture the cleanest audio.

Pro tip: If you want to learn the language of the movie you're watching, give your glasses' touchpad a single tap. This toggles the display from "Half-Screen" (just the translation) to "Full-Screen" (which shows both the original foreign text and your translated text simultaneously).

Not only does this let you understand a foreign language, but you can use the same microphone hack to "hear" a TV in a noisy place. Set Translate to "English to English" (or use Conversate), then set your phone next to a distant TV speaker, and you'll be able to "hear" the TV from anywhere nearby.

Control your computer with your voice

Remember how Spock used to talk to the ship's computer in Star Trek? It's finally real. Even Hub app OcuClaw is a native OpenClaw client built for the G2. If you install one Claw on your glasses and the other on your PC or Mac, you can give your G2's AI the ability to interact directly with your computer's operating system. Once it's set up, you can use the G2's built-in microphone to issue complex commands, like "Computer, open my last downloaded PDF and email it to Sarah," or "Play my lofi playlist on Spotify." The agent on your computer executes the clicks and keystrokes, and you get a real-time status update floating in your heads-up display. It's a hands-free, AI-powered remote control for your desktop, and the possibilities are limitless. Just be warned that installing any agentic AI program on your computer leaves you vulnerable to attack via prompt injection. Try this one only if you understand the risks.

Turn your morning walk into a birdwatching session with Birdie

You don't have to be a birder to want to know what's making that racket in the tree above you. Birdie, a lightweight Even Hub app from a solo developer, listens to bird sounds through your G2's mic and identifies bird species using BirdNET—the same open-source bird-sound recognition model used by "serious" birding tools. Start a listening pass, hold still a few seconds, and when it gets a confident match, the species' common name, scientific name, and a field-guide photo pop up on your HUD. It's not doing anything a bird-identifying phone app like Merlin couldn't do, but it does it better. Since it listens in the background, you don't have to whip out your phone and point it at a branch when you see a grackle; instead, you just get your bird information fed directly into your eyeballs.

Never forget a person with the What's Their Face app

A lot of people are up in arms over facial recognition software being added to Meta glasses, but how about voice recognition? What's Their Face is an app on the Even Hub that uses voice recognition to act as a digital Rolodex for your acquaintances, aiming to solve the dreaded "cocktail party problem" of "what is their name??"

It works like this: You record a five-second clip of a person speaking and attach it to a name and an information card that can contain job titles, email addresses, or anything else you want. A few days later, when you run into that person and you've forgotten their name, your glasses will flash the closest matching voice prints so you can pretend you knew all along. If you have privacy concerns, this is a memory aid, not a privacy invasion tool. All the computation is done on the device, and no information is pulled from online sources and connected to a person you meet—you can only enter what you know about a person. No information is sent anywhere either, so it can't create a universal database of names so you'd "recognize" people you haven't met.

Convince people you're the smartest person alive

When I first got G1 Even Reality glasses, I immediately used them to trick a bartender out of a drink by offering to answer any trivia question, then correctly naming FW Murnau's follow-up film to 1927's Sunrise. (My glasses tell me it's 4 Devils, released in 1928.) This kind of mild flim-flammery is even easier with the second generation, thanks to Conversate, G2's always-listening mode that quietly transcribes conversation and surfaces context in real time. You can use this easily to convince people you are a math wiz, or you know the day of the week they were born based on the date, or that you have memorized the name, number, and position of everyone who has ever played for the Cleveland Browns.

Like most magic tricks, the mechanics are simple: turn on Conversate and let it listen for a question and feed you an answer only you will see, although you might have to repeat the question if Conversate's AI doesn't "pick it up" when it's first said. The hack here is really the performance: being able to repeat a question back and make it sound natural, reading the screen without looking like you're reading the screen, dealing with any "pauses" in the AI by realistically looking like you're thinking, then waiting a beat to make the answer seem natural. If you decide you like jovially deceiving people and you want to make it your career, check out sybil sight, a "mentalism operating system" for Even Realities G2 glasses. It's not cheap, and they don't tell you how it works exactly because a magician's secrets are only unlocked with cash, but I'm picturing a way more elaborate version of the tricks described above.

Sync up your band with G2 glasses

The great thing about G2 glasses is how many very specific problems they solve, like making sure your band knows what chord to play when. Here's how to never have to say, "OK, the next chord is E minor" again so you can just rock out:

Get a pair of G2 glasses for everyone in the group. (Yeah, it's a high bar to clear.)

Have everyone download QMe Prompter and install it on their phones.

Have everyone set the app to stream content directly to G2 glasses.

Use the app's "group jam" feature to link everyone over wifi. When the leader pulls up a chord chart, it instantly loads lyrics and chords onto everyone's phones, which beams it to their spectacles.

The app has hands-free scrolling that can be set by BPM, a foot pedal, or you can use the voice-follow feature that listens to the singer and scrolls the lyrics in time, so everyone is on the same page.

Pro-tip: Your band probably needs the Even Hub's Tuner app too.