A Quiet Week With the Even Realities G0

Even Realities sent me a G0 for a week and were clear that I could write whatever the week gave me. So here it is, plainly: this is a tiny thing that does almost nothing, and I liked it more than I expected to.

Released in January 2024 as a $250 small batch and only ever available by asking for one, the G0 shows you the time and gives you directions. That is the list. There is no Teleprompt, no Even AI, no Translate, no Conversate, none of the cleverness the company built into its later glasses. It was the prototype before the Even Realities G1 released and, on purpose, a prototype with its hands in its pockets.

Something I appreciated only once I started paying attention: the G0 knows where you are and what time it is, and that is it. No internet. No AI listening in the background. No data being piped anywhere. For a device that sits on your face all day, that felt like a considered choice rather than a limitation. It also, not coincidentally, explains why the price is $250 and not several times that.

One small design detail that I kept noticing: the end of each temple arm the bit that tucks over your ear has a distinctive tapered profile. It is half trapezium shaped, wider at the front and narrowing towards the tip, which gives the G0 a particular silhouette from behind. I looked at photos of the G1 afterwards and it uses a plain rectangular block. I do not know whether that is a tooling change or an aesthetic one, but the G0's shape is unmistakable once you have seen it.

What I noticed was the absence of a habit. I stopped pulling my phone out to check whether I was late, and the route to an unfamiliar cafe simply appeared in the corner of my vision and then politely left. After a week the G0 went back, as planned. The glasses sold out in June 2024, and honestly that suits the thing it was: a small, finished sentence rather than a promise. If you want the fuller expression of the idea, that starts with the G1 now.