IRIS

A real-time AI assistant for Even Realities G2 smart glasses. It listens to your conversations and surfaces discreet cues on your lens — answers, follow-up questions, fact-checks, and more — exactly when they're useful.

What can it do?

IRIS works entirely in the background while you talk. You don't need to look at your phone or interrupt the conversation. Cues appear on the lens in a line or two, glanceable in under a second.

Setup

IRIS is install-it-yourself — you bring your own AI and speech keys. There's no subscription and no data goes to IRIS servers. Setup takes about five minutes.

AI engine

The AI engine decides what cue to show you and when to stay silent. You can switch providers any time from Settings → AI engine — your keys for other providers are always saved and ready to switch back to.

Local / private models

If you work with sensitive data and don't want conversations leaving your network, you can run a local language model and point IRIS at it. Nothing leaves your device or LAN.

How to set it up

Recommended models for IRIS

IRIS sends short prompts and needs the model to return a single JSON object. Most capable 7B+ instruction-tuned models work. Good choices: Llama 3.1 8B, Qwen 2.5 7B, Mistral 7B Instruct, Phi-4. Bigger models give better cue quality but are slower.

Speech recognition (STT)

The speech provider turns what you and others say into text. IRIS sends that transcript to the AI engine to decide on a cue. You can switch STT providers independently from your AI engine — your keys for all providers are always saved.

Modes

A mode tells IRIS what situation you're in and how it should behave — what kinds of cues to give, how often, and in what tone. You can have as many modes as you like and switch between them with a scroll on the glasses.

Built-in modes

Creating a custom mode

Go to the Ask IRIS tab and describe what you want. For example: "Make me a mode for job interviews where I'm the candidate" or "I need a mode for my weekly team stand-ups." IRIS generates a mode from your description and asks if you'd like to apply it.

You can also edit any mode's name, description, and settings manually from Settings → Modes.

Tuning a mode

Each mode has a few knobs to adjust:

Chattiness

Silence prompts

When the conversation goes quiet for 30 seconds or more, IRIS can offer a gentle prompt to get things going again — a question you could ask, something worth sharing. Enabled by default. Turn it off for modes where silence is fine (e.g. listening to a lecture).

Recaps

For long sessions like lectures, IRIS can periodically surface a brief summary of what's been covered so far — useful to help you keep the thread. Off by default; enable per mode.

Cue types

Choose which types of cues this mode can produce. See Cue types for what each one means. Restricting a mode to only the relevant types (e.g. only "follow-up" for a listening mode) keeps cues focused.

Live sessions

A session is an active period of listening. IRIS transcribes everything in real time, feeds it to the AI engine, and shows cues on your lens as they arrive. Your transcript and cues are saved automatically.

Starting a session

Tap the Start button in the IRIS app, or use the glasses touchpad (see Glasses controls). The app can be in the background — once a session starts, it keeps running with the phone screen off.

During a session

• Cues appear on the lens as they're generated — usually within a few seconds of the relevant moment in the conversation.
• A dot on the lens pulses when the microphone is active and audio is flowing.
• You can scroll through previous cues on the lens without leaving the session.
• In the app, you can see the live transcript, cue history, and a context panel where you can type quick instructions to IRIS mid-session.

On-lens transcript (optional)

Enable On-lens transcript in Settings to show a rolling strip of the live transcript along the bottom of the lens — useful if you want to confirm IRIS is hearing correctly. Cues appear in the upper area as usual.

Ending a session

Tap End in the IRIS app. The session is saved and IRIS generates a title and summary in the background. This takes under a minute.

Telling IRIS to be quiet

During a session, type something like "don't give me any cues for now" or "stop responding" in the context panel and IRIS will pause. Type anything else to resume, or tap Resume cues.

Glasses controls

The G2 touchpad on the right temple controls IRIS entirely from the glasses — no need to touch your phone during a conversation.

When idle (not in a session)

During a session (recording)

When a cue is showing

Cue types

Each cue is tagged with a type that tells you at a glance what it's for. The lens shows the tag abbreviation; the app shows the full label.

Prep notes

Before starting a session, you can type context into the Prep notes field on the home screen. IRIS treats this as instructions for that session — it's injected directly into the prompt alongside the transcript.

Examples of what to put there:

• "This is a job interview at Acme Corp for a senior engineer role. I want to highlight my distributed systems experience."
• "Meeting with Dr. Chen about my knee — I have a question about whether I need an MRI."
• "First date — keep cues light and conversational, no heavy topics."

Prep notes are saved with the session so you can refer back to what you briefed IRIS on.

Knowledge base

The knowledge base is a text block you can fill with reference material you want IRIS to draw on — facts, names, terminology, background on people you talk to, anything useful. It's attached to specific modes, not to sessions.

When a mode has relevant document content set, IRIS automatically refers to it when generating cues. Useful for:

• Product specs or talking points for a sales mode
• A glossary of technical terms for a study mode
• Background on clients or colleagues for a work mode

Set it in Settings → Modes → [your mode] → Reference material.

Session history

Every session is saved automatically with its full transcript, cue history, and a generated title and summary. Find them in the Sessions tab.

After a session ends, IRIS runs a few background steps:

• Transcript cleanup — removes filler words and disfluencies to make the transcript readable.
• Summary & key points — extracts action items, follow-ups, and notable moments.
• Memory update — anything worth remembering long-term (people mentioned, facts about you, commitments made) is stored in your memory and used to personalise future sessions.

If the app is closed before processing finishes, it picks up where it left off the next time you open it.

Memory

IRIS builds a long-term picture of you across sessions — things you care about, people in your life, recurring topics, preferences. This context is quietly included when generating cues, making them more relevant over time.

You can see, edit, and delete memory entries in the Memory tab. Nothing is shared outside your device and your chosen AI provider.

Weekly review

At the end of each week, IRIS can generate a synthesis across all your sessions — patterns, recurring themes, progress on goals, and things worth reflecting on. Find it in the Sessions tab under "Weekly review".

It's generated on demand, not automatically — tap Generate to run it whenever you're ready.

Tips & tricks

Start with Groq or Gemini

Both have free tiers and need no card. They're a good way to try IRIS without any commitment — you can switch to Claude or GPT later once you've got a feel for it.

Use chattiness to tune the signal-to-noise ratio

If you're getting too many cues, drop to Low. If IRIS feels too quiet, switch to High. This is per-mode, so you can have a quiet mode for sensitive conversations and a chatty one for casual use.

Tell IRIS what's happening mid-session

The context panel (in-app, during a session) lets you type instructions at any time: "The person I'm talking to is a doctor", "We just moved to talking about salary", "Stop giving me cues for a bit". IRIS picks these up immediately.

Keep the app open while you set up

All keys are stored on your device. If the app closes mid-setup, nothing is lost — just reopen it and continue.

Sessions keep running with the screen off

Once a session starts, you can pocket your phone. IRIS keeps recording and generating cues on the glasses until you tap End. The phone doesn't need to be visible.

For local models: use a 7B+ model

Smaller models (1B–3B) often struggle to follow the JSON output format IRIS requires. A 7B+ instruction-tuned model is more reliable. Qwen 2.5 7B and Llama 3.1 8B are good starting points.

Ask IRIS to make your mode better

In the Ask IRIS tab, you can say things like "My cues are too generic — make them more specific to technical conversations" or "I'm getting too many fact-checks, tone it down" and IRIS will update your active mode accordingly.