Almost everyone who asks us this describes the same small embarrassment first: on every video call you are either looking at your notes or looking at the camera, never both, and the people at the other end can tell exactly when you are reading. That is the itch behind the question of whether AI glasses help at a laptop. The answer is useful, but not the one most people expect.
Short answer: the Even G2 does not connect to your laptop. It pairs over Bluetooth to your phone, and it is not a monitor — you cannot mirror your Teams window, a screen-share, or the participant grid onto the lenses. What it genuinely adds to a laptop meeting is a teleprompter: speaker notes you prepared in the phone app, floating in your eyeline while you keep looking at the laptop camera. Treat it as a discreet autocue for calls and presentations, not as a display for your computer.
What "connect to a laptop" actually means here
People mean two very different things by it. One: plug the glasses into the laptop like a screen and see windows on them — that does not work; we have seen no documented wired connection (USB-C or HDMI) to the glasses. Two: wear the glasses at your desk and get notes in your eyeline while you work on the laptop — that does work, but through your phone, not the laptop.
The crucial point is that the glasses only ever talk to the phone. During a Teams call running on your laptop, the glasses are driven by the phone sitting beside you, entirely independent of the computer. No video, no image and no screen-share flows from the laptop to the lenses. The laptop runs the meeting; the glasses show only what you handed them earlier, through the phone.
The realistic win: a teleprompter for speaking
This is where the real value sits. In the Even app on your phone you write a script — your talking points, the opening line, the three numbers you must not forget. On the call that text appears on the lenses and you read it while looking straight at the camera. To the other side it looks as if you are speaking freely and holding eye contact. The gap between "look at your notes" and "look at the camera" is exactly the gap the glasses close.
Two honest caveats. First, you prepare the script in advance; it is not live-linked to your PowerPoint or the meeting, and it will not auto-scroll to your current slide. Second, the app needs a phone (iOS 16 or later, or the Android app on Google Play). Alongside the teleprompter the usual phone-side features still run — dictate a QuickNote, glance at an important notification — but the teleprompter is the reason anyone puts the glasses on for a laptop meeting.
| You want to … | Runs via | Possible? |
|---|---|---|
| Read speaker notes while looking at the camera | Teleprompter, phone app | Yes, the core use |
| Glance at an important notification during the call | Phone-side | Yes |
| Have the script auto-follow your current slide | — | No, prepare it ahead |
| See the Teams video or the participant grid | — | No |
| Mirror the laptop screen as a second display | — | No |
What it can't do — and what does that instead
Let us be clear about the limits so you are not disappointed at home. The G2 is not a Teams display: faces, the participant grid and a shared deck do not appear on the lenses. It is also not a second monitor — you cannot drag a spreadsheet off the laptop and read it on the lens.
If that is precisely what you want — a big, floating second screen for your laptop — it is a different category of device altogether: so-called birdbath glasses (from the likes of XREAL or Rokid) with darker, tinted lenses that show a large virtual display. The G2's monochrome information overlay is deliberately not built for that; it is there for short, clear text, not a desktop. Which device solves which job is easiest to see side by side in the AI glasses database.
Who actually benefits
Built for you if …
You host, train or run sales calls often and can't hold the script in your head; you have to keep the thread through webinars and all-hands; you value eye contact with the camera over reading — and you hate watching yourself glance down in the recording.
Probably not if …
You want a floating second screen for spreadsheets and code (that's the birdbath category); you expect to see the Teams video on the lenses; or you want to plug the glasses into the laptop by cable. The G2 does none of those.
So: buy, skip, or test first?
Buy without worry if your main motive is the teleprompter: calm, free-flowing delivery in calls and presentations, with your eyes on the camera instead of the page. That is exactly what the G2 does reliably.
Pause if you secretly expect a second monitor or the Teams video on the lenses. The G2 can't do that, and we'd rather not pretend it can.
Test first, because the one thing no spec sheet answers is whether reading feels natural to you. Bring a real script to the Zürich showroom and read it aloud once as if the camera were live. For how to build a clean script, see our teleprompter-glasses overview.
Disclosure: AI-Eyewear is the authorised Swiss reseller of Even Realities. We'd rather you feel the teleprompter for yourself than buy expecting a PC monitor we can't confirm exists.