{"id":357913,"date":"2025-08-19T22:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T22:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/357913\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T22:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T22:56:10","slug":"htc-enters-the-smartglasses-race-with-vive-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/357913\/","title":{"rendered":"HTC Enters the Smartglasses Race with VIVE Eagle"},"content":{"rendered":"

HTC is joining Meta and others in the rapidly heating smartglasses space with its newest product, the VIVE Eagle. Like other smartglasses, the Eagle lacks any kind of display, being positioned instead as a vehicle for AI voice assistance and media capture.<\/p>\n

Smartglasses have been around in one form or another for more than a decade. But the rise of AI assistants based on large language models has caused a resurgence of interest in the category. Today\u2019s smartglasses represent the form-factor that the XR industry is ultimately seeking for the ultimate XR glasses, but they lack the powerful immersive features of bulkier headsets. On the other hand, today\u2019s XR headsets have many of the immersive features and advanced sensing capabilities that the industry wants for the ultimate XR glasses, but they lack the compact and comfortable form-factor of proper glasses.<\/p>\n

Practically speaking, smartglasses show the industry burning the candle on both ends: working from a small form-factor and figuring out how to add more capabilities, whihle also working from a larger form-factor with more features and figuring out how to shrink the size. In the end, it looks certain that smartglasses and XR headsets will converge somewhere along the way as the ideal balance of form-factor and capabilities is found.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s not surprising to see HTC\u2014one of the most recognizable players in the XR space\u2014jump on the smartglasses train with the recently announced Vive Eagle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Unlike Meta\u2014which has so far kept its smartglasses separate from its Quest & Horizon brands\u2014HTC is making its smartglasses part of its Vive brand, which has traditionally been reserved for its immersive headsets.<\/p>\n

Weighing in at just 49 grams, Vive Eagle has a familiar set of capabilities compared to smartglasses like the Meta Ray-Bans: a helpful AI chatbot and a camera for capturing photos & video; there\u2019s even the same little button for activating the camera, and an LED light to show observers when the camera is in use.<\/p>\n

The camera is said to be 12MP (3,024\u00a0\u00d7 4,032) and capable of taking HDR photos. Videos are captured at 3MP (1,512\u00a0\u00d7 2,016) at 30 FPS. The glasses include 32GB of storage which HTC says can store some 3,000 photos or 50 videos up to three minutes each.<\/p>\n

HTC is calling the chatbot that underpins the headset \u201cVive AI,\u201d which it says can handle \u201ceveryday commands like taking a photo, playing music, or launching an app completely offline.\u201d The company says Vive Eagle\u2019s intelligence can be extended with the likes of OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT or Google\u2019s Gemini for more complex queries, with \u201canonymized requests\u201d to maintain privacy.<\/p>\n

HTC also says Vive Eagle offers \u201creal-time translation of text from over 13 languages,\u201d including photo-based translation, as well as \u201cvoice control for phone apps, scheduling events, playing music, and more.\u201d While both iOS and Android are said to be supported, it\u2019s likely that Android users will see some extra functionality thanks to the more open nature of the OS.<\/p>\n

As for battery life, HTC says Vive Eagle can play music for up to 4.5 hours. It doesn\u2019t sound like the included case will double as a charger (a nice convenience for the Meta Ray-Bans), but at least the Eagle can be juiced up quickly in a pinch, with a claimed 0\u201350% charge in just 10 minutes via the included magnetic charger.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Image courtesy HTC<\/p>\n

The Eagle will be equipped with ZEISS UV400 lenses, which provide UV protection without significant tinting (making them usable both indoors and out). Prescription lenses will also be offered for those needing vision correction.<\/p>\n

Eagle will be \u201cavailable in Taiwan first\u201d on September 1st, says HTC. While this implies it will come to other countries in the future, no firm release date for other regions has been shared. The Taiwan version is priced at\u00a0NT$15,600 ($520)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HTC is joining Meta and others in the rapidly heating smartglasses space with its newest product, the VIVE…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3162],"tags":[53,16,15,3243,3244],"class_list":{"0":"post-357913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-technology","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-virtual-reality","12":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115057903864512900","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}