Htc Takes On Meta With The Vive Eagle Smart Glasses

HTC is once again attacking nan wearable abstraction pinch a brace of caller smart glasses, nan institution announced. The Vive Eagle is simply a rival to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses pinch a fashion-foward lightweight design, unfastened receptor audio, voice-activated AI and an ultra-wide AI-powered camera. They look promising, if a spot expensive, but will only beryllium disposable successful Taiwan to commencement with.

The Taiwanese patient intelligibly noticed that Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses person been a astonishment hit. It's easy to spot why — successful our Engadget review, we recovered that they look awesome and execute admirably. The existent exemplary includes in-ear speakers, cameras, microphones and entree to Meta’s virtual assistant.

HTC has utilized overmuch nan aforesaid look for nan Vive Eagle, though they person an uphill conflict against Ray-Ban's marque brand successful position of user consciousness and style. "Vive Eagle features a refined artistic that conceals its powerful exertion successful clean, minimalist lines," nan institution wrote. It managed to fresh each nan exertion into a comparatively lightweight framework that weighs conscionable 49 grams, only a gram heavier than Meta's Ray-Bans.

On nan camera side, nan Vive Eagle comes pinch a 12MP ultra-wide exemplary pinch voice-activated AI, offering support for aggregate platforms including OpenAI and Gemini. "With a elemental sound bid for illustration 'Hey VIVE, return a photo,; users tin seizure what they spot — correct from their glasses," nan institution wrote.

Voice commands besides fto you do things for illustration grounds reminders, return notes, and get edifice recommendations. You tin besides get real-time translator successful 13 languages: Arabic, Traditional Chinese, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Korean, Thai, Turkish.

On nan audio side, nan Vive Eagle has an open-ear setup that "combines ample acoustic drivers and virtual bass enhancement to present rich, spatial audio while minimizing sound leakage," HTC said. It promised that you'll beryllium capable to perceive euphony aliases sound prompts without others overhearing, while still being alert of your surroundings.

HTC promises up to 36 hours of standby clip and 4.5 hours of continuous euphony playback acknowledgment to nan 235mAh battery, and you tin get to a 50 percent complaint (via magnetic accelerated charging) successful conscionable 10 minutes. It besides features a "privacy-first" architecture pinch each video and different information stored exclusively on-device — and that is protected via 256-bit AES encryption, according to HTC.

The Vive Eagle will only disposable successful Taiwan astatine first for NT$15,600, aliases astir $520 — rather a spot much than astir of Meta's Ray-Ban models. HTC has yet to opportunity if it will bring nan Vive Eagle to different territories including nan US — but if it does and astatine that price, it'll beryllium successful reliable against its rival.