A mother came into our Zurich showroom last week with her fifteen-year-old son, who had seen the Even G2 on a friend's phone and wanted a pair for his birthday. She asked for a straight answer before he asked for anything else. That is the right order, and this is our straight answer.
Short answer: probably not yet. The Even G2 is built as a productivity tool for adults — frame sizing, price and the features it is actually good at are aimed at working professionals, not children or younger teenagers. For older teens with a specific, genuine use case (language learning, for example) and parents who stay involved with the account and privacy settings, a joint showroom trial can still make sense. For children and younger teens, we lean toward waiting.
Does the frame even fit?
The Even G2 comes in two frame variants: G2 A, with a wider bridge of around 22.6 mm, and G2 B, at around 19.5 mm, plus adjustable nose pads and temple length. Both were designed around adult face proportions. On a child or younger teenager with smaller, narrower features, even the narrower G2 B can sit too wide or too heavy — and because this is a display glasses, a poor fit does not just affect comfort on the nose, it shifts where the display sits in the field of view. Professional fitting is already worthwhile for adults; on a still-growing face it is close to essential — and even then, the available sizes may simply not be a match yet.
Eyes and prescriptions that are still changing
We sell glasses, we are not paediatricians, which is exactly why we want to be clear here: we are not making a medical judgement. What we do know, without diagnosing anything, is that children's and teenagers' eyes and prescriptions tend to change faster and more often than adults'. A corrective lens that fits today may no longer be right in a year. Whether a display glasses with prescription lenses makes sense for a still-developing eye is a question for a paediatric optometrist or ophthalmologist — not one a reseller's website should or can answer. If you are unsure, that conversation should happen before the conversation about frames.
One more screen, one more account
The Even G2 is camera-free, which is a genuine privacy advantage over camera glasses. But it is still another connected device with its own app, its own account and another surface for notifications — on top of the phone most teenagers already carry. For a family that actively manages screen time and notifications, that matters: the glasses add another, very present layer of notifications to the day, not less. If a family decides to go ahead anyway, we would treat the account the same way as any other connected device belonging to a minor — with clear rules, a parent who understands the app settings, and not as an unsupervised gift straight out of the box.
The price, looked at honestly
The Even G2 is priced as a tool for working adults, not as pocket-money electronics. Before spending that amount on a child or teenager, it is worth asking plainly: how many of the glasses' actual strengths — discreet notes in a business meeting, translation in a client conversation, a teleprompter for presenting to an audience — come up in the daily life of a 13- or 15-year-old? For most, the honest answer is "rarely," and at that point you are mostly paying for a status symbol, not a use case.
Where it can still make sense
There is one honest exception: older teenagers close to adulthood with a specific reason — serious language learning, a part-time job with multilingual customer contact, or genuine interest in the technology itself — and parents willing to stay involved in fitting, the account and how it gets used. In that case, a joint visit to the showroom in Zurich is the right next step: try the fit together, test the translation feature together, and decide without rushing into an online order. If you want to understand who the glasses are actually built for first, our overview of who the Even G2 is for covers that, and if privacy is the main worry, our page on AI glasses and privacy goes into more detail.
Our honest verdict
For children and younger teenagers: lean toward waiting. Frame size, price and the typical use cases argue against it, and any question about a still-changing prescription belongs in an eye clinic first, not in a shopping cart.
For older teenagers with a clear reason and involved parents: test together before buying — in the showroom, not online.
Buying without reservation is not something we would currently recommend for this age group; the G2 is simply built too clearly around adult use.
Disclosure: AI-Eyewear is the authorised Swiss reseller of Even Realities. This assessment does not replace paediatric or ophthalmological advice; for questions about a child's vision, speak to a qualified professional.