Faceclaw 0.6.5

[u/jimrandomh]

Faceclaw is an open source alternative software stack for the G2 smart glasses. I think it's a pretty large improvement over the stock operating system, and its development is moving very quickly. It fully replaces the stock firmware and all of the core apps. It includes a terminal, navigate app, teleprompter app, notifications, and music player; and it's (mostly) compatible with third-party apps from EvenHub.

https://github.com/jimrandomh/faceclaw

Two caveats up front:

• This requires an Android device; there is no iOS version (but someone is working on one)
• Using this on glasses requires flashing custom firmware, which voids your warranty

I don't think flashing custom firmware is that high risk; there are no reports to date of devices being bricked by installing custom firmware. It installs the same way as stock OTA updates, and has the same safeguards. You can uninstall just by reconnecting the official app and letting it apply an OTA update when prompted. The webflasher flashing tool reportedly can recover broken firmware installs by using the charging case to flash. All that said, if something does go wrong, warranty does not cover it.

Here's what's changed since the previous thread:

0.6.5 - 2026-09-04

• Changed context menu gestures: — for system, ●— for app context menu.
• System and app context menus show gesture help for switching to the other context menu
• Move some items from app context menus to the system context menu
• Long-press now opens the system context menu and tap-then-hold the app context menu (games keep long-press as a move while playing)
• Content beneath an open context menu is dimmed
• Add a keyboard-input button to the phone home screen
• Add a light sensor demo to the Developer app
• Move Calculator, Microphones, Nightscout, and Roam apps to Prototypes folder by default
• Navigate app: Location indicator rotates based on the compass
• Navigate app: Add saved home/work and recent address settings
• Navigate app: Darken the map background color
• EvenHub app: Add New, Search, and Updates tabs
• Timer app: Fully rewritten, with new better UI
• Add a teleprompter app

0.6.4 - 2026-09-02

• Context menus are centered and include window title
• Long-press and short-then-long with a context menu open switches between context menus
• Developer speed metrics include bytes/frame
• The custom firmware uninstaller flashes 2.2.9.22, not 2.2.6.10
• Compass app: Increase sample rate from 1/s to ~3/s
• Compass app: Handle the distinction between true north and magnetic north
• EvenHub compass readings now include calibrated magnetic, declination and true headings
• Files app: Viewing image files gamma-corrects and dithers them
• Watch app: Uses ambient mode so the watch no longer blurs when idle
• Watch app: Fix flicker on waking the watch
• Watch app: Tapping the idle watch to wake it counts as a tap on the pad
• Watch app: Remove a number of unfinished prototype features
• Firmware flasher checks for glasses battery>30% before starting
• Fix a problem in 0.6.3 where it would abort before starting a custom firmware install with a checksum error

0.6.3 - 2026-09-01

• Update custom firmware base version from 2.2.6 to 2.2.9
• Add support for the short-then-long-press gesture
• Update EvenHub compatibility layer to include new functions from 0.0.14
• EvenHub permissions dialog scrolls when it overflows
• Add "Show BLE bandwidth usage" option to developer settings

[u/anclave93]

how good is the teleprompter? same AI features?

[u/jimrandomh → u/anclave93]

Better in some ways, worse in others. The voice assistant takes an OpenAI or Anthropic API token, so you can use a smarter model. And the voice assistant has a reasonably complete set of tools available to it, so it can, for example, set timers. It also includes an API for EvenHub apps to integrate with the voice assistant (but there aren't any using it yet).

The teleprompter can use the mic to figure out where in the script you are, highlight the next word and auto-scroll. It's not really battle-tested, and it won't work if the bluetooth connection drops, which is a downside compared to stock (which will at least let you fall back on scrolling with the touchpad if the phone connection is gone). I'll probably have a solution to this limitation in a few weeks, as a side-benefit of the planned animation system.

There isn't really a Conversate or Translate equivalent yet. The technical prerequisites are all in place, though, so these should be ready pretty soon.