A message landed in our inbox a few weeks ago with the subject line "quick question about the G2 and my exam." We could tell where it was going by the second sentence: could the display scroll through formulas during a written exam without anyone noticing? We're going to answer that honestly, and the honest answer starts with no.
Short answer: don't use AI glasses to feed yourself answers during a graded exam. That's cheating, it breaks the rules of essentially every school, university and certification body we know of, and we're not going to dress that up to sell you a pair of glasses. In a job interview there's usually no formal rule against wearing smart glasses at all — but using the hidden display to answer questions you were meant to answer yourself, without saying so, is a trust problem, not a technicality, and it can cost you the job even if nobody can prove exactly how you did it. Where the G2 is genuinely useful is before you walk into the room: rehearsing answers on the teleprompter, and reviewing notes right up until the door opens.
Exams: this isn't a grey area
The Even G2 is camera-free, which is a genuine advantage in plenty of contexts — but that doesn't change the fact that it puts a private display directly in your field of view. Exam integrity rules don't usually single out "cameras" specifically; they ban any device capable of displaying information you're not allowed to see during the test. A pair of glasses that projects text into your eye falls squarely inside that ban, no matter how discreet it looks or how it's marketed. The relevant question was never "does it have a camera" — it's "can you see something the person next to you can't, and that the rules say you shouldn't."
We don't have a complete list of every Swiss school's, university's or professional certification board's exact policy and penalty structure — that depends on the institution, and we're not going to pretend to issue a blanket ruling here. What holds true across essentially every exam policy we've seen: getting caught using an unauthorised aid can mean a voided result, a disciplinary hearing, and in serious cases exclusion from the exam or the programme; for professional certification exams, that can also mean failing to qualify entirely. That's not a disclaimer we're adding out of caution — that's the actual answer. We'd rather sell one fewer pair of glasses than help someone cheat on an exam, and that's exactly why we're saying it this plainly.
Interviews: not illegal, but a trust problem
Unlike an exam, most interview processes have no formal rule banning smart glasses. The problem shows up if you use the hidden display to feed yourself answers while the interviewer believes they're hearing your own knowledge, in your own words. An interview isn't just testing what you know — it's testing whether people can trust what you tell them. If that's noticed, or even suspected, later, the trust is damaged regardless of whether the answers happened to be correct.
There's a practical angle too: reading unrehearsed text produces a noticeable glance pattern, and an attentive interviewer looking straight at your face across a small table is far more likely to catch that than a passing glance across a restaurant would allow. If you want to wear the glasses in the room at all, disclosure is the better path — mention briefly that you use a note or teleprompter device, much like bringing printed notes to a technical interview; most employers have no issue with a disclosed aid, but an undisclosed one discovered later reads as dishonesty. Our teleprompter glasses overview covers how the feature works, and our privacy overview explains what stays on the phone versus what touches the cloud — both worth knowing before you decide what to disclose.
A line that works: "I sometimes use note-taking glasses with a small display for talking points — happy to take them off for this conversation if you'd rather." Short, honest, and it removes any hint of secrecy from the situation.
What's actually legitimate: preparation beforehand
The part we can recommend without reservation happens before the door, not behind it:
- Rehearse answers on the teleprompter. Load your prepared talking points, your elevator pitch, or the structure of your argument into the teleprompter feature and rehearse pacing and phrasing, exactly the way a speaker would — just in advance, not during the assessment itself.
- Review notes right up until you walk in. A last glance in the waiting room, on the train, or in the corridor immediately beforehand is entirely fine — then take the glasses off, or make clear they aren't in active use during the exam or interview itself.
- Language prep instead of live translation. If a conversation will happen in another language, practising vocabulary beforehand with the translation feature is legitimate. Getting live translation fed to you mid-question when you're supposed to answer yourself is the same disclosure problem in a different shape.
- When in doubt, take them off. If you're unsure whether an institution or an interviewer would count the glasses as an aid, taking them off is the simplest option that never needs explaining.
So: buy, skip, or test first?
Skip it if the only reason you're considering AI glasses is to cheat on an exam — we won't help with that, it breaks the rules of essentially every institution we know of, and the consequences outweigh any grade you might gain.
Use it well if you want a genuinely private way to rehearse and review your own material beforehand, and you're comfortable being upfront about any aid you wear into an evaluated conversation.
Test it first at the Zürich showroom, where you can see for yourself exactly how discreet the display is, and we'll talk plainly about where discreet ends and deceptive begins.
Disclosure: AI-Eyewear is the authorised Swiss reseller of Even Realities. We don't have a complete list of every Swiss exam regulation or employment contract, and we're not making a legal ruling here — when in doubt, your institution's rules or your employer's word carry more weight than this page.