WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:06.480 It's day one of CES and I have lost my voice already somehow. But that doesn't 00:00:04.640 --> 00:00:10.719 take away from the coolness of what we're looking at here today. This is the 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:16.560 HTC Vive Eagle and it's the latest example of this rapidly evolving field 00:00:13.759 --> 00:00:19.520 of smart glasses. Now HTC is jumping in with uh this pretty cool like 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:26.240 transparent [music] design. This is the coffee color that I'm wearing right now, but they have 00:00:23.359 --> 00:00:32.880 various other colors. We got berry here, gray, and black. I like the transparent 00:00:30.320 --> 00:00:36.960 vibe. I feel like I'm wearing a Game Boy from back in the day, but the technology 00:00:35.120 --> 00:00:40.640 is more [music] advanced. So, HTC is jumping in with a very privacy first 00:00:39.280 --> 00:00:46.239 approach here. But, I don't want to get too ahead of myself. We should probably take a look at the physical makeup of 00:00:44.879 --> 00:00:51.200 the glasses first. So, on the front here, we have a 12 megapixel camera. It 00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:55.280 can take [music] photos and videos at 30 FPS with electronic image stabilization. 00:00:53.760 --> 00:00:59.920 On the other side, looks like another camera, but it is a recording indicator 00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:03.199 light that will actually stop working when you cover [music] it. We'll get 00:01:01.120 --> 00:01:07.200 into that. On the left side here is the AI button, so you can call up your model 00:01:05.280 --> 00:01:12.159 of choice or customize it to [music] do specific AI enabled actions. On the 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:16.400 right side, you have the photo and video button. Uh tap to take a photo, hold to 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:20.240 take a video, as well as a touchpad on the right, which with the [music] kind 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:24.799 of expected actions, tap, double tap, triple tap, swiping, all the good stuff. 00:01:22.960 --> 00:01:29.840 There's also wear detection sensors on the inside here for mics and it has 00:01:28.240 --> 00:01:33.200 speakers on here if you want to do stuff like play music on your phone. Let's get 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:40.000 deeper >> after this work from our sponsor. >> Oh, after this word from our sponsor, 00:01:37.119 --> 00:01:43.759 guys, CES 2026, guess what happened? Our sponsor dropped out again. But Dbrand 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:47.280 was there for us. They care about us and they care about you and they care about 00:01:45.360 --> 00:01:53.119 making cool skins and cases and screen protectors and fun URLs like this keeps 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:57.040 happening.com. What is that referencing? I don't know. But you should check out 00:01:54.560 --> 00:02:02.640 Dbrand at those fun URLs or at the link in the description because 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:07.520 they're really cool. Now, the HTC Vive Eagle is an answer to 00:02:05.439 --> 00:02:11.599 Meta and these other companies who are in this field of smart glasses with 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:16.959 cameras [music] and speakers and built-in AI functionality. You can take 00:02:14.239 --> 00:02:22.560 high-res photos and videos and you can listen to your music and you can call up 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:24.400 an AI assistant. However, HTC is taking 00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:28.560 a little bit more of an interesting approach here. One of the main reasons 00:02:26.640 --> 00:02:32.640 people are concerned about Meta in particular making smart glasses is the 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:37.200 question of privacy. So, HTC is being like, you know what, we're going to go 00:02:33.920 --> 00:02:38.959 privacy first. Your data is encrypted on 00:02:37.200 --> 00:02:44.080 this [music] thing. And the built-in Vive AI agent sort of acts like an 00:02:41.920 --> 00:02:48.959 anonymity layer with the two available LLMs that you can choose between. You 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:50.640 can choose Gemini or ChateBT. But even 00:02:48.959 --> 00:02:54.800 though those LLMs have this memory feature where they want to remember 00:02:52.266 --> 00:02:59.680 [music] things about you and you know use your data for training probably HTC 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:04.080 isn't interested in that. So they take your requests send it to those LLMs but 00:03:02.400 --> 00:03:09.519 the LLM doesn't know who they're dealing with. They're like I don't know but I 00:03:05.760 --> 00:03:11.280 I'll try to help but I want your data. 00:03:09.519 --> 00:03:15.120 It sucks. Well the LLM will have the text but they 00:03:13.760 --> 00:03:18.640 won't know it's you. And that's what's important. So that's what happens if you 00:03:16.800 --> 00:03:21.599 call one of those LLMs. But if you want to do something, you know, more local on 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:25.360 your phone, you want to play music, you want to call somebody, Vive AI talks to 00:03:23.920 --> 00:03:29.360 the assistant [music] on your phone, either Google Assistant or Gemini, I 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:33.680 guess, in that case, or Siri. So what kind of AI features are we talking 00:03:31.440 --> 00:03:37.599 about? Uh, of course, these can do live translation. Vive AI will [music] 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:42.000 translate a bunch of languages, the most commonly used ones itself, and for 00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:46.799 anything else, it'll call to other AI models to pick up the tab. Nice. and it 00:03:44.640 --> 00:03:52.319 will use the camera input to do things like recognizing text, translating the 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:54.319 text for you, uh looking at images, 00:03:52.319 --> 00:03:59.120 artwork, whatever you want to look at. It's got an interesting feature though 00:03:55.920 --> 00:04:00.159 where with a lot of visual AI, if you 00:03:59.120 --> 00:04:04.959 take a picture of something and you're like, "What am I looking at?" And it like will describe everything about the 00:04:03.200 --> 00:04:09.599 scene except the thing that you actually want to know about. If you activate the 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:13.360 AI either with a wake word or by tapping the AI button [music] and point at the 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:18.799 thing you're talking about, it'll be like, "Oh, that's what Oh." and it will 00:04:17.199 --> 00:04:22.240 tell you things about the thing that you want to know about. See, like that's see 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:26.639 how this is supposed to work. But that AI button also has some customization. 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:31.520 So, you can customize single tap or double tap to do specific actions. If 00:04:29.840 --> 00:04:34.960 you're [music] say in an environment where you know you're going to be 00:04:32.880 --> 00:04:39.033 translating a lot of text, you can customize that tap to be like every time 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:42.240 I hit the button, translate the text [music] in front of me. Or if you're in 00:04:40.720 --> 00:04:46.880 a museum and you're looking at artwork and you want to learn about the artists 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:50.000 and what it all means, there's an artwork [music] 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:53.840 task that you can assign to either single tap or double tap. And there's a 00:04:51.680 --> 00:04:59.199 whole list of those uh type of tasks where you don't have to keep asking 00:04:56.880 --> 00:05:02.560 verbally, hey, what's that? But even when it comes to recording things in 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:07.120 public, HTC has thought about privacy here and they have automatic detection 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:11.440 for if somebody is saying, "Hey, don't film me or like stop filming." It'll 00:05:10.080 --> 00:05:15.759 know that that's happening and stop filming. So, it's not just privacy for 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:20.880 yourself. It's also privacy [music] for society and that's important. But for 00:05:18.320 --> 00:05:25.199 more personal uses, Vive AI can also do things like set reminders and, you know, 00:05:23.199 --> 00:05:29.360 remember specific people if you want it to. So, it does have some of those more 00:05:27.199 --> 00:05:34.720 personal agentic abilities as well. So, what's powering all this? Well, it's got 00:05:31.039 --> 00:05:36.720 a Qualcomm Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 inside, 00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:43.440 4 gigs of RAM, 32 [music] gigs of onboard storage, and a 235 MIA battery. 00:05:41.680 --> 00:05:48.720 That'll give you 4 1/2 hours of continuous music playback or 36 hours of 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:52.320 standby. And if you're thinking, I'm going to be listening to music on these 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:56.160 things constantly. Well, the good news is you don't have to put it back in the 00:05:54.080 --> 00:06:01.039 case to charge it. They actually have a magnetic charging connector right there 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:04.560 on the arm and you can connect the cable and keep using the glasses while you're 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:08.769 charging [music] it. You won't have to be doing that too long. 10 minutes will 00:06:06.400 --> 00:06:13.354 get you to 50% and 20 minutes will get [music] you to 80%. Not to mention the 00:06:10.880 --> 00:06:18.400 uh potential for IRL streamers to [music] completely revolutionize the 00:06:14.960 --> 00:06:21.280 game by having POV streaming video while 00:06:18.400 --> 00:06:25.199 they're plugged in. It's normal. This is fine. So, when can people try these out 00:06:22.960 --> 00:06:29.039 for themselves? Well, they can right now in Taiwan and Hong Kong. This is 00:06:26.960 --> 00:06:33.039 available for the equivalent around 500 USD. They're launching in Japan very 00:06:31.039 --> 00:06:38.000 soon apparently. And there will be a North America and Europe launch as well 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:45.039 sometime this year. So, if you are pining for a smart glasses product that 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:46.960 does not want to rip out the data from 00:06:45.039 --> 00:06:50.800 you forcefully, this is will be an option. HTC Vive Eagle. Thanks for 00:06:49.039 --> 00:06:56.560 watching this video, guys. Continue to stay tuned for the rest of our CES 2026 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:59.039 coverage. We're having fun and you will 00:06:56.560 --> 00:07:01.224 too. Subscribe. Yeah. [laughter]