HTC made an enormous guess on VR years in the past when it launched its Vive sequence headsets, and the maker is now getting into a brand new frontier with its Vive Eagle AI glasses. These are a competitor to the Ray-Ban Meta with the aim of trying like common glasses however concurrently providing a FPV digital camera, on-device AI options and stereo audio system.
HTC Vive Eagle
Vive Eagle is available in a number of translucent colours, together with Black, Berry, Espresso, and Gray. They sport a 12MP ultra-wide digital camera, which captures 3,024 × 4,032 px photographs and 1,512 × 2,016 px video at as much as 30fps. The correct body options an LED seize gentle, which lets others know you’re recording.
The glasses include Qualcomm Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 paired with 4GB RAM and 32GB storage. They weigh just below 49 grams with their Zeiss lenses and provide IP54 ingress safety towards water and dirt.
Vive Eagle helps Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3 connectivity and pairs with any iOS 17.6+ or Android 10+ cellphone by way of the Vive Join app. You additionally get open-ear stereo audio system built-in into the temples.
HTC is bringing its Vive AI voice assistant, which is suitable with Google Gemini and ChatGPT (beta). You additionally get real-time translation with assist for 13 languages and on-device conversion to spoken audio.
The glasses include a 235mAh battery. They’re rated at as much as 36 hours of standby, 4.5 hours of steady music playback, and three hours for voice calls. If you do must recharge, you are able to do so with the bundled magnetic charger. It guarantees a 50% cost in 10 minutes and an 80% top-up in 23 minutes.
HTC Vive Eagle will retail for NTD 15,600, which is $521. They’re obtainable for pre-order in Taiwan, with open gross sales set to start on September 1. HTC has not disclosed any particulars a couple of international launch but.
