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It's day one of CES and I have lost my voice already somehow. But that doesn't

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take away from the coolness of what we're looking at here today. This is the

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HTC Vive Eagle and it's the latest example of this rapidly evolving field

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of smart glasses. Now HTC is jumping in with uh this pretty cool like

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transparent [music] design. This is the coffee color that I'm wearing right now, but they have

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various other colors. We got berry here, gray, and black. I like the transparent

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vibe. I feel like I'm wearing a Game Boy from back in the day, but the technology

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is more [music] advanced. So, HTC is jumping in with a very privacy first

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approach here. But, I don't want to get too ahead of myself. We should probably take a look at the physical makeup of

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the glasses first. So, on the front here, we have a 12 megapixel camera. It

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can take [music] photos and videos at 30 FPS with electronic image stabilization.

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On the other side, looks like another camera, but it is a recording indicator

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light that will actually stop working when you cover [music] it. We'll get

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into that. On the left side here is the AI button, so you can call up your model

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of choice or customize it to [music] do specific AI enabled actions. On the

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right side, you have the photo and video button. Uh tap to take a photo, hold to

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take a video, as well as a touchpad on the right, which with the [music] kind

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of expected actions, tap, double tap, triple tap, swiping, all the good stuff.

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There's also wear detection sensors on the inside here for mics and it has

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speakers on here if you want to do stuff like play music on your phone. Let's get

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Dbrand at those fun URLs or at the link in the description because

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they're really cool. Now, the HTC Vive Eagle is an answer to

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Meta and these other companies who are in this field of smart glasses with

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cameras [music] and speakers and built-in AI functionality. You can take

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high-res photos and videos and you can listen to your music and you can call up

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an AI assistant. However, HTC is taking

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a little bit more of an interesting approach here. One of the main reasons

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people are concerned about Meta in particular making smart glasses is the

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question of privacy. So, HTC is being like, you know what, we're going to go

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privacy first. Your data is encrypted on

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this [music] thing. And the built-in Vive AI agent sort of acts like an

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anonymity layer with the two available LLMs that you can choose between. You

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can choose Gemini or ChateBT. But even

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though those LLMs have this memory feature where they want to remember

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[music] things about you and you know use your data for training probably HTC

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isn't interested in that. So they take your requests send it to those LLMs but

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the LLM doesn't know who they're dealing with. They're like I don't know but I

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I'll try to help but I want your data.

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It sucks. Well the LLM will have the text but they

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won't know it's you. And that's what's important. So that's what happens if you

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call one of those LLMs. But if you want to do something, you know, more local on

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your phone, you want to play music, you want to call somebody, Vive AI talks to

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the assistant [music] on your phone, either Google Assistant or Gemini, I

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guess, in that case, or Siri. So what kind of AI features are we talking

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about? Uh, of course, these can do live translation. Vive AI will [music]

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translate a bunch of languages, the most commonly used ones itself, and for

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anything else, it'll call to other AI models to pick up the tab. Nice. and it

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will use the camera input to do things like recognizing text, translating the

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text for you, uh looking at images,

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artwork, whatever you want to look at. It's got an interesting feature though

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where with a lot of visual AI, if you

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take a picture of something and you're like, "What am I looking at?" And it like will describe everything about the

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scene except the thing that you actually want to know about. If you activate the

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AI either with a wake word or by tapping the AI button [music] and point at the

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thing you're talking about, it'll be like, "Oh, that's what Oh." and it will

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tell you things about the thing that you want to know about. See, like that's see

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how this is supposed to work. But that AI button also has some customization.

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So, you can customize single tap or double tap to do specific actions. If

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you're [music] say in an environment where you know you're going to be

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translating a lot of text, you can customize that tap to be like every time

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I hit the button, translate the text [music] in front of me. Or if you're in

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a museum and you're looking at artwork and you want to learn about the artists

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and what it all means, there's an artwork [music]

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task that you can assign to either single tap or double tap. And there's a

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whole list of those uh type of tasks where you don't have to keep asking

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verbally, hey, what's that? But even when it comes to recording things in

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public, HTC has thought about privacy here and they have automatic detection

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for if somebody is saying, "Hey, don't film me or like stop filming." It'll

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know that that's happening and stop filming. So, it's not just privacy for

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yourself. It's also privacy [music] for society and that's important. But for

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more personal uses, Vive AI can also do things like set reminders and, you know,

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remember specific people if you want it to. So, it does have some of those more

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personal agentic abilities as well. So, what's powering all this? Well, it's got

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a Qualcomm Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 inside,

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4 gigs of RAM, 32 [music] gigs of onboard storage, and a 235 MIA battery.

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That'll give you 4 1/2 hours of continuous music playback or 36 hours of

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standby. And if you're thinking, I'm going to be listening to music on these

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things constantly. Well, the good news is you don't have to put it back in the

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case to charge it. They actually have a magnetic charging connector right there

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on the arm and you can connect the cable and keep using the glasses while you're

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charging [music] it. You won't have to be doing that too long. 10 minutes will

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get you to 50% and 20 minutes will get [music] you to 80%. Not to mention the

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uh potential for IRL streamers to [music] completely revolutionize the

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game by having POV streaming video while

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they're plugged in. It's normal. This is fine. So, when can people try these out

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for themselves? Well, they can right now in Taiwan and Hong Kong. This is

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available for the equivalent around 500 USD. They're launching in Japan very

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soon apparently. And there will be a North America and Europe launch as well

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sometime this year. So, if you are pining for a smart glasses product that

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does not want to rip out the data from

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you forcefully, this is will be an option. HTC Vive Eagle. Thanks for

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watching this video, guys. Continue to stay tuned for the rest of our CES 2026

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coverage. We're having fun and you will

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too. Subscribe. Yeah. [laughter]