It's day one of CES and I have lost my voice already somehow. But that doesn't
take away from the coolness of what we're looking at here today. This is the
HTC Vive Eagle and it's the latest example of this rapidly evolving field
of smart glasses. Now HTC is jumping in with uh this pretty cool like
transparent [music] design. This is the coffee color that I'm wearing right now, but they have
various other colors. We got berry here, gray, and black. I like the transparent
vibe. I feel like I'm wearing a Game Boy from back in the day, but the technology
is more [music] advanced. So, HTC is jumping in with a very privacy first
approach here. But, I don't want to get too ahead of myself. We should probably take a look at the physical makeup of
the glasses first. So, on the front here, we have a 12 megapixel camera. It
can take [music] photos and videos at 30 FPS with electronic image stabilization.
On the other side, looks like another camera, but it is a recording indicator
light that will actually stop working when you cover [music] it. We'll get
into that. On the left side here is the AI button, so you can call up your model
of choice or customize it to [music] do specific AI enabled actions. On the
right side, you have the photo and video button. Uh tap to take a photo, hold to
take a video, as well as a touchpad on the right, which with the [music] kind
of expected actions, tap, double tap, triple tap, swiping, all the good stuff.
There's also wear detection sensors on the inside here for mics and it has
speakers on here if you want to do stuff like play music on your phone. Let's get
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they're really cool. Now, the HTC Vive Eagle is an answer to
Meta and these other companies who are in this field of smart glasses with
cameras [music] and speakers and built-in AI functionality. You can take
high-res photos and videos and you can listen to your music and you can call up
an AI assistant. However, HTC is taking
a little bit more of an interesting approach here. One of the main reasons
people are concerned about Meta in particular making smart glasses is the
question of privacy. So, HTC is being like, you know what, we're going to go
privacy first. Your data is encrypted on
this [music] thing. And the built-in Vive AI agent sort of acts like an
anonymity layer with the two available LLMs that you can choose between. You
can choose Gemini or ChateBT. But even
though those LLMs have this memory feature where they want to remember
[music] things about you and you know use your data for training probably HTC
isn't interested in that. So they take your requests send it to those LLMs but
the LLM doesn't know who they're dealing with. They're like I don't know but I
I'll try to help but I want your data.
It sucks. Well the LLM will have the text but they
won't know it's you. And that's what's important. So that's what happens if you
call one of those LLMs. But if you want to do something, you know, more local on
your phone, you want to play music, you want to call somebody, Vive AI talks to
the assistant [music] on your phone, either Google Assistant or Gemini, I
guess, in that case, or Siri. So what kind of AI features are we talking
about? Uh, of course, these can do live translation. Vive AI will [music]
translate a bunch of languages, the most commonly used ones itself, and for
anything else, it'll call to other AI models to pick up the tab. Nice. and it
will use the camera input to do things like recognizing text, translating the
text for you, uh looking at images,
artwork, whatever you want to look at. It's got an interesting feature though
where with a lot of visual AI, if you
take a picture of something and you're like, "What am I looking at?" And it like will describe everything about the
scene except the thing that you actually want to know about. If you activate the
AI either with a wake word or by tapping the AI button [music] and point at the
thing you're talking about, it'll be like, "Oh, that's what Oh." and it will
tell you things about the thing that you want to know about. See, like that's see
how this is supposed to work. But that AI button also has some customization.
So, you can customize single tap or double tap to do specific actions. If
you're [music] say in an environment where you know you're going to be
translating a lot of text, you can customize that tap to be like every time
I hit the button, translate the text [music] in front of me. Or if you're in
a museum and you're looking at artwork and you want to learn about the artists
and what it all means, there's an artwork [music]
task that you can assign to either single tap or double tap. And there's a
whole list of those uh type of tasks where you don't have to keep asking
verbally, hey, what's that? But even when it comes to recording things in
public, HTC has thought about privacy here and they have automatic detection
for if somebody is saying, "Hey, don't film me or like stop filming." It'll
know that that's happening and stop filming. So, it's not just privacy for
yourself. It's also privacy [music] for society and that's important. But for
more personal uses, Vive AI can also do things like set reminders and, you know,
remember specific people if you want it to. So, it does have some of those more
personal agentic abilities as well. So, what's powering all this? Well, it's got
a Qualcomm Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 inside,
4 gigs of RAM, 32 [music] gigs of onboard storage, and a 235 MIA battery.
That'll give you 4 1/2 hours of continuous music playback or 36 hours of
standby. And if you're thinking, I'm going to be listening to music on these
things constantly. Well, the good news is you don't have to put it back in the
case to charge it. They actually have a magnetic charging connector right there
on the arm and you can connect the cable and keep using the glasses while you're
charging [music] it. You won't have to be doing that too long. 10 minutes will
get you to 50% and 20 minutes will get [music] you to 80%. Not to mention the
uh potential for IRL streamers to [music] completely revolutionize the
game by having POV streaming video while
they're plugged in. It's normal. This is fine. So, when can people try these out
for themselves? Well, they can right now in Taiwan and Hong Kong. This is
available for the equivalent around 500 USD. They're launching in Japan very
soon apparently. And there will be a North America and Europe launch as well
sometime this year. So, if you are pining for a smart glasses product that
does not want to rip out the data from
you forcefully, this is will be an option. HTC Vive Eagle. Thanks for
watching this video, guys. Continue to stay tuned for the rest of our CES 2026
coverage. We're having fun and you will
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