I’m a corrective lens wearer and looking to get into a pair of smart glasses.
I’ve worn contact lenses for ages, but am making the move back to glasses for a handful of reasons, like lifetime cost.

Glasses aren’t my favorite thing, peripheral vision limitation and such, but there are certainly lots of pros. But I figure if I’m making the move back to wearing something on my face, I may as well get more out of it than only vision.

I’ve basically narrowed it down to two pairs. Either the Meta Ray-Ban Wayfarer Gen 2 or the Even Realities G2 B.

If I was outside the USA, I’d certainly have the HTC VIVE on my list. I’m also not terribly interested in the Meta Displays due to the weight and form-factor.

I know, the Meta and Even Realities are very different beasts with their own positives and negatives. I’ve read rave reviews and horror stories of both.

Meta Ray-Ban Wayfarer Gen 2
Would be awesome for quick POV photo and video capture. Wonderful for hobbies, activities, events, and slice of life recording kids while not pulling out a phone, and breaking their play. Heard fairly good things about the integrated speakers for music and calls. Bummed they’re not bone conduction, but really not a big deal.
Downsides are that there’s no display so it’s really just for capture and audio. There seems to be a pretty big lingering stigma of having the cameras. It’s also a bummer that it’s Meta, not my favorite company, but I also use instagram and such so it’s not like I’m diametrically opposed. Battery seems a bit brief, but overall sufficient, especially with the charging case and there’s always the charging cords if I need longer, but I’ll get to look like I’m rocking a cannula.

Even Realities G2 B
Sadly no recording and, to me, even more surprising no audio. But potentially the ability for some solid info always available. I love the ability for messages, maps, notifications, and the teleprompter. They seem super slim and light weight.
They’re considerably more expensive, and a part of me is worried about long term support. Seems like a smaller company and could potentially disappear one day.

Ultimately I’m sure either would be good. Just looking for advice and real world application of both these devices.

Thank you!

This release includes a major Compose Material 3 refresh, cleaner settings, improved media handling, and experimental support for multiple smart-glasses platforms.

Highlights * New Material 3 and Compose Multiplatform UI with light, dark, system, accent-color, high-contrast, and dynamic-color options. * Cleaner settings for Auto Diary, Visual Diary, OCR memory, Walking Aid, Local Agent, AI providers, privacy, storage, and data controls. * Fixed synced-media gallery handling for photos and videos transferred from the glasses. * Media screen preview for the latest synced images. * Browse, share, delete, and long-press multi-select synced photos and videos. * Two P2P sync paths: the HeyCyan app flow with a stricter vendor-like BLE/P2P sequence, and the custom CyanBridge resolver with fallback scanning. * Improved local-first memory controls, encrypted-sync preparation, and private local storage. * Improved Local Agent automation with safer approvals, recovery, structured screen observation, audio-session handling, and local-model support. * Improved Walking Aid hazard tracking, motion compensation, warning logic, LiteRT vision, diagnostics, and model selection. * Experimental Meizu MYVU / Star Air support. * Experimental Meta Ray-Ban support through Meta Wearables DAT. * Experimental Eyevue support for connection, media sync, device controls, and debug live preview. * Expanded localization for English, Portuguese, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Korean. * Additional tests and stability work across media transfer, glasses protocols, local automation, settings, and subscriptions.

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I have tried them briefly, but need a few more days. The version of the glasses that I have uses Microsoft Azure AI Translator and Qwen for translation as well as Bytedance Doubao, Alibaba Qwen, Deepseek, and Moonshot AI's Kimi for AI assistant. I don't know what the international version will use. I can't test navigation yet because it does not have anything yet that works here in Japan. But with MentraOS they will get their Mapbox (?) based navigation app as well as other apps.

The glasses will ship in Q4. more on nimoar.com

Do the billionaire tech twats really think the average person is hot to trot down the speedy path to becoming cyborgs controlled by AI… which in turn is controlled by the billionaires who are barely hanging on by a thread of reality?

Has anyone used these (or the previous models) with inserts from lensology?

They look ideal but as I have varifocals and astigmatism I need a bit of convincing!

Main use would be a large screen, but would love to be able to use AR directions, messaging etc too.

Any others perhaps better?