Even G1
Making my smart glasses work for me
Overview
Even G1 Swift is a native Swift companion app for the Even Realities G1 smart glasses, built on a reverse-engineered protocol layer. It connects to both glasses arms over Bluetooth Low Energy, displays text and 1-bit bitmap content, sends app-authored notifications, handles microphone and gesture events, shows nearby NYC subway arrivals, and provides phone-driven navigation guidance.
The app is organized as a consumer product — a device dashboard, navigation, and heads-up widgets — with the protocol tooling that drove the reverse engineering kept behind a developer toggle.
This is a reverse-engineering project, not an official Even Realities product. Protocol behavior can vary by firmware, so experimental commands get validated on hardware before being relied on.
Features
Connects to both glasses arms over Bluetooth Low Energy, displaying text and 1-bit bitmap content with a developer toggle for protocol tooling.
Sends notifications to the glasses display, with microphone and gesture events handled back on the phone.
Shows nearby subway arrivals on your heads-up display using the MTA's public GTFS-Realtime feeds — no API key required.
Phone-driven navigation guidance with a text fallback for unverified native navigation packets.
Datadog RUM only initializes when credentials are present — without them every telemetry call is a no-op and the app sends nothing anywhere.
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