I am obsessed with the “Conversate” app in my Even Realities G2 smart glasses. Overall, the glasses are sci-fi cool—they project a small, monochrome HUD in front of your eyes but look like normal glasses—but Conversate is essential. The AI-driven productivity tool is designed for work meetings but it’s fun in social settings too, and you can use it to scam free drinks from bartenders.
Use Conversate and never take notes in a meeting again
If you’ve ever left a work meeting thinking, “wait, am I supposed to file the TPS reports, or is it Gary’s week?” consider Conversate. I don’t multi-task well, so listening while taking notes can be difficult. Conversate solves that problem.
Here’s how it works: You hit the start button on the app, and the AI listens and transcribes everything anyone says in real time. The text is just out of your eyesight unless you glance up at it, so it isn’t distracting but if someone asks a factual question, you’ll get a silent answer in a pop-up window in your glasses. If you share this fact, it can make you look very smart. Or like a know-it-all, so use wisely. If someone says a person’s or a company’s name, you get a pop-up that tells you who/what they are too. Usually this is useless (I already know what Google is and who Jesus Christ is), but occasionally, it gives needed context.
Credit: Stephen Johnson
When the meeting is over, you can check out a summary of what was discussed, and Conversate will highlight anything that looks like a task for you. You can then take those tasks and migrate them to your glasses’ to-do list with a click, so you have a checkable list of action items floating before your eyes whenever you want it.
I realize that all of these functions could be done with a number of smart phone apps, but with Conversate, you keep your phone in your pocket—much more unobtrusive.
How to use Conversate to win bar bets and fake being smart
I used the last generation of Even Realities smart glasses to win a drink from a bartender, and Conversate makes this kind of skullduggery even easier. It’s constantly listening for questions and feeding you answers, so if you’re a dishonest person, you can totally rule at trivia night, impress your friends with your human calculator skills, or tell everyone the day of the week they were born. An added trickery bonus: G2s don’t look like smart glasses, and if you pair them with the ring controller, no one will ever know that you are cheating your way through life.
How to have fun at parties with Conversate
This last use really depends on who you hang out with, but in the right crowd, Conversate becomes a hilarious party game. It’s funny to read the AI’s stilted definitions for common terms back to people, a beat behind the conversation. It’s fun when your friends start saying obscure names to see whether your spectacles will tell you who they are. It’s fun for people to invent “action items” that you will supposedly have to do later too. Everyone at the party will call you a nerd, but they will still want to try out your glasses. Are they secretly jealous of your cutting-edge techness? Probably not, to be honest. Anyway, when you are finished hanging out with your friends, Conversate will translate the party’s banter and small talk into “corporate-speak” summaries, which I find delightful.
What do you think so far?
Later in your life, you can remember the barbecue you went to like this:
Meeting Summary: : Retrospective on Social Logistics and Lifecycle Events
1. Resource Management & Historical Social Models
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Context: Discussion regarding the evolution of “barbecue social gatherings.”
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Key Point: Participants compared current hospitality standards to a legacy “Bring Your Own Meat” (BYOM) model.
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Outcome: The BYOM framework was noted for its ability to facilitate social gatherings with zero capital expenditure from the host.
2. Asset Utility: Off-Road Platforms
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Context: Review of 4-Wheel Drive (4WD) Jeep performance.
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Key Point: The group discussed the long-term viability and “fun” ROI of Jeep vehicles.
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Outcome: High consensus that the mobility benefits of 4WD systems outweigh the mechanical maintenance requirements.
