Even Realities just opened its G2 smart glasses to outside developers. The Even Hub platform lets you build apps using standard web tech: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript. If you know React or Vite, you're already most of the way there. The SDK bridges your web code to the glasses hardware, and you can test locally with a simulator before sideloading to a real device.
The G2 hardware itself is unusual for smart glasses. Dual micro-LED displays push 576 x 288 pixels per eye in 16 shades of green. There's a four-microphone array and touchpads on the temples, but no camera and no speaker. That's intentional. App logic runs on your paired phone via Bluetooth 5.2, while the glasses just handle rendering. They're a companion device. The phone does the thinking.
Right now you can build plugins, background apps that layer over the core experience. Even Realities says dashboard widgets, custom layouts, and AI integrations are coming. The whole workflow feels familiar: write code, preview locally, package with the CLI into .ehpk files, then distribute through the Even Hub portal.
The company went through Y Combinator's W23 batch and has been building toward this moment since. Founder Otton Zhang bet on a privacy-first, phone-tethered approach rather than trying to cram cameras and speakers into eyewear. Whether that pays off depends on whether developers show up. The bar to entry is low enough that some might buy the hardware just to experiment.