Buying guide
Even G1 vs Hey Pocket in 2026
Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.
Key differences
- Hey Pocket has the lower recorded price.
| Attribute | No image on file | |
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Even Realities | Open Vision Engineering (Hey Pocket) |
| Form factor | wearable | wearable |
| Maturity | commercial | commercial |
| Autonomy | — | — |
| Availability | shipping-nowshipping | shipping-nowshipping |
| Price | $599 (actual sale price) | $99-$199 (actual sale price) |
| Capability claims | — | — |
| Brain | — | — |
| Verified deployments | 1Global | 1Global |
| Privacy practices | 2cloud-upload, data-retention | 9cloud-upload, training-data-use, third-party-sharing, bystander-recording, data-deletion-control, data-sale, data-retention, location-tracking, data-deletion-control |
| Sources on file | 8 | 7 |
Editorial summaries
Even G1
The Even Realities G1 is minimalist display HUD smart glasses (44g, magnesium/titanium, looking like ordinary eyeglasses) with a monochrome green waveguide display and, deliberately, no camera, speakers, or audio. It does turn-by-turn navigation, teleprompter, real-time translation, notifications, and transcription well; its 'Even AI' is a thin cloud Q&A wrapper (Perplexity/ChatGPT), placing it at the veneer end of the AI-substance spectrum: the glasses are a good display device, the 'AI' is a light add-on. Pricing is $599 base, plus $150 for prescription lenses and $100 for a sun clip; about 1.5-day battery.
Hey Pocket
Hey Pocket, by Open Vision Engineering (San Francisco, a Y Combinator W26 company; CEO Akshay Narisetti previously built Omi), is a screenless AI voice recorder and 'thought companion'. The 52-gram device works standalone and MagSafe-attaches to the back of a phone, with dual studio microphones plus a contact microphone for calls and on-device storage, running multi-model cloud AI (routing across GPT-5, Claude, and Gemini) for transcription in 120+ languages, summaries, mind maps, action items, and an Ask-Pocket Q&A feature. It sells for $99 at launch against a $199 regular price, with a free core and, distinctively, no subscription required (an optional Pocket Pro plan is $19.99 a month). DEPLOY records it at commercial maturity: a real, shipping product (live iOS and Android apps), not vaporware, and its AI substance is genuine. The editorial throughline is the no-subscription-core posture, a direct contrast to subscription-required rivals like Plaud.
Common questions
- What is the difference between Even G1 and Hey Pocket?
- Even G1 and Hey Pocket are both wearable robots on the DEPLOY registry. They differ in maker, maturity, price, verified deployments, and how much of their autonomy is independently verified. See the table above for the full head-to-head; each figure is sourced.
- Which is cheaper, Even G1 or Hey Pocket?
- Hey Pocket has the lower recorded price on the DEPLOY registry than Even G1. Prices are sourced; see each record for whether the figure is a manufacturer target, an estimate, or an actual sale price.
- Which has more verified deployments, Even G1 or Hey Pocket?
- Even G1 and Hey Pocket each have 1 verified deployment on the DEPLOY registry (confirmed at named sites with primary sources).
Recent coverage
- Smart glasses maker Even Realities hits $1B valuation with $150M funding led by Meituan, TencentEven G1 · TechCrunch – Hardware · 2026-07-06
- Even Realities' G2 Smart Glasses Will Keep An Eye On Your AI Agent - EngadgetEven G1 · Google News · 2026-04-30
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