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Even Realities G1
Everyday-looking glasses with a monochrome green micro-LED heads-up display and no listed camera. Included because it looks like ordinary eyewear and because the manufacturer has a Bluetooth SIG company identifier.
- Detection: Researching
- Independent test: Not yet independently tested
Can Even Realities G1 be detected with an iPhone?
Not established yet. Even Realities G1 has no camera listed by the manufacturer and uses Bluetooth (manufacturer-stated). Whether it broadcasts a signal an iPhone can match, and in which states, depends on its hardware state and has to be measured on real hardware. Current status: researching — registered identifiers or public leads exist to test; nothing observed on hardware yet. It has not yet been tested on our own hardware.
What the manufacturer says
Each row is labelled. Known fact: read on the linked page. Inference: concluded from sourced facts. Unknown: could not be sourced.
| Property | Value | Basis | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camera | No | Inference | The manufacturer's G1 specification lists display, microphones and BLE but no camera, and the manufacturer's own buyer's guide states that its successor, Even G2, has no camera. We treat 'no camera' as a well-supported inference rather than a quoted fact for G1. Source |
| Microphone | Yes | Known fact | The manufacturer lists two microphones. Source |
| Capture light | Not applicable | Inference | No camera is listed, so a camera indicator does not apply. The glasses do have microphones; we found no manufacturer statement about an indicator for microphone use. Source |
| Bluetooth | Yes | Known fact | The manufacturer lists BLE 5.2. What the glasses advertise, and when, is not stated and has not been observed by us. Source |
Detection and testing status
- Detection research
- Researching — Registered identifiers or public leads exist to test; nothing observed on hardware yet.
- Independent test
- Not yet independently tested — not yet published
- Hardware tested
- None yet
- iOS versions tested
- None yet
- Evidence on file
- None yet: nothing about this device has been observed by us
Both statuses are lifecycle states that change only when a recorded hardware test says so. "Not yet independently tested" means exactly that; it is not a judgement about the product. The testing status page describes the protocol and what will be published, favourable or not.
Registered Bluetooth identifiers under research
These identifiers are registered with the Bluetooth SIG by the companies named. Registration establishes who owns an identifier, not which products broadcast it or when. They are the starting point for testing, not evidence of detectability.
| Identifier | Kind | Registered to | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
0x10F9 | Company identifier | Even Realities Ltd. (SIG) | Company-level identifier; whether the glasses advertise it is unverified. |
Limitations
- Not yet tested by us.
- Because the G1 has no listed camera, a detection of this device (if it ever becomes possible) would not indicate any recording capability.
- Only a company identifier is registered; on its own that could never exceed a LOW confidence level in our scoring model.
Recognising it by eye
General observations for people not relying on any app. They are not detection features.
- Designed to look like conventional eyewear; the display is only visible to the wearer.
- No camera lens on the frame front.
What a detection means, and does not mean
A detection means
- Your iPhone received a Bluetooth Low Energy advertisement whose contents matched one or more entries in the signature catalogue.
- Each piece of evidence (a company identifier, a service UUID, a name pattern) is shown with its source, so you can judge it yourself.
- The confidence level reflects how many independent kinds of evidence agreed, not whether a camera is in use.
A detection does not mean
- That anyone is recording. No manufacturer documents a camera or microphone state in its Bluetooth advertisements, and we have observed none; the app does not read one.
- That the matched device is definitely smart glasses. Manufacturers reuse identifiers across products; see false positives.
- That the device is a particular distance away. Signal strength is a coarse proximity hint; see RSSI and distance.
Related research
- How Bluetooth detection works — the matching and scoring rules this status depends on
- False positives and false negatives — why a shared company identifier is weak evidence
- RSSI, proximity and distance — what "strong signal" does and does not mean
- Testing status — the protocol and what will be published
- How to detect smart glasses — visual cues and Bluetooth, for people, not just apps
Other devices
Oakley Meta (HSTN and Vanguard) · Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 1 and Gen 2) · Snap Spectacles (5th generation) and Specs · Vuzix Z100
Sources
- Even G1 smart glasses (specifications) — Even Realities, accessed 17 September 2026
- Can smart glasses take pictures or record video? — Even Realities, accessed 17 September 2026
- Assigned Numbers — Bluetooth SIG, accessed 16 September 2026
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