What you have to know
- HTC debuted its new AI-driven good glasses, the VIVE Eagle, which lets customers management them totally with their voices.
- Customers can seize pictures, movies, and extra with the VIVE Eagle’s 12MP ultra-wide digicam, whereas additionally listening to music with wealthy sound.
- The VIVE Eagle sports activities a “premium” open-ear design that lets customers modify its temples and nosepads for a snug match.
- The glasses can be found for pre-order in Taiwan for NT$15,600 (~$518).
Whereas HTC has stepped into VR headsets, the corporate is debuting one thing we did not anticipate: AI good glasses.
HTC is diving headfirst into the world of good glasses with the likes of Meta and future gamers, corresponding to Samsung and Google, with the VIVE Eagle. Launched earlier this morning (Aug 14), HTC highlights the VIVE Eagle as “AI-driven wearable eyewear.” Since that is—as an example—an alternate route from HTC’s VR headsets, the corporate’s senior vice chairman, Chris Huang, stated, “VIVE Eagle represents HTC’s latest exploration within the realm of clever residing and private wearables.”
The VIVE Eagle touts a “premium design” at a light-weight 49 grams. HTC states customers can alter its consolation by adjusting its nosepads and contoured temples for a match that’ll final you all day. Moreover, the put up highlights the inclusion of ZEISS solar lenses, which give UV safety “with out compromising optical readability.”
Packed into the VIVE Eagle is voice-activated AI with assist for Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. HTC states its AI assist may help customers seize life’s moments with a easy phrase: “Hey VIVE, take a photograph.” The VIVE Eagle will seize your pictures utilizing its 12MP ultra-wide digicam, due to VIVE AI.
Recording is one other functionality of the VIVE Eagle. The press launch states customers can ask their glasses to file a reminder, take notes, and extra simply by utilizing their voices.
Music & Prviacy
Aside from capturing reminiscences, HTC states its latest AI glasses may even carry your favourite tracks for you. The put up highlights the VIVE Eagle’s open-ear design with “massive acoustic drivers and digital bass” for richer audio. The corporate additionally states the glasses’ audio capabilities assist to attenuate sound leakage, which means you (hopefully) will not disturb others round you. Whereas out, the VIVE Eagle’s audio system can ship your music in full quantity; nonetheless, it is best to nonetheless have the attention to know what’s taking place round you.
Talking of staying somewhat personal, the glasses reportedly sport AES-256 encryption to safeguard your information saved domestically throughout the system. Extra importantly, HTC says the content material you seize with the VIVE Eagle is “by no means uploaded, tracked, or used for AI mannequin coaching.”
Some smaller AI specs state the VIVE Eagle helps real-time translation for 13 languages. The content material the glasses seize through the cameras is then translated and fed to the person via its audio system. HTC states its assist encompasses Arabic, Conventional Chinese language, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Korean, Thai, Turkish.
Taiwan Pre-orders
Whereas staying light-weight, the VIVE Eagle accommodates a 235mAh battery with as much as 36 hours of standby time. This battery can be stated to final roughly 4.5 hours for steady music playback functions. In 10 minutes, the glasses are estimated to achieve 50% cost.
The HTC VIVE Eagle glasses can be found immediately (Aug 14) for shoppers in Taiwan for NT$15,600 (~$518). Customers within the area will discover it in Berry, Espresso, Gray, and Black. In the intervening time, there isn’t any phrase on whether or not or not world customers will be capable of get their fingers on the VIVE Eagle.
