VIVE Eagle – HTC’s fashionable new AI smart glasses – has landed in Europe, North America and Australia, bringing advanced features and a privacy-centric approach that empowers the wearer and the people around them to protect their privacy. The versatile VIVE AI helps with live translation (speech and text), and can even connect to your smartphone’s AI to carry out actions.
“VIVE Eagle is where style meets intelligence, it taps into powerful AI tools and frees your hands so you can be more present in the moment.” - Cher Wang, Co-Founder and Chairperson of HTC
VIVE Eagle comes with premium ZEISS lenses, including sun lenses with Category 3 UV400 protection, or an option for bluelight blocking or photochromic lenses. And it’s quick and easy to put prescription lenses into VIVE Eagle, reports Business Wire.
VIVE Eagle frees your hands so you can experience life directly, not through a screen. With voice commands or programmable physical buttons, VIVE Eagle is intuitive and easy-to-use, whether you’re cycling through a park, or exploring a new city, you can stay in the moment while creating shareable memories.
Cher Wang, Co-Founder and Chairperson of HTC said, “Technology should free our imaginations, and allow us to create and experience and improve our lives. VIVE Eagle is where style meets intelligence, it taps into powerful AI tools and frees your hands so you can be more present in the moment. You can explore new cultures, learn about paintings in galleries, and share your adventures effortlessly.”
Privacy first
VIVE Eagle takes a privacy-first approach for you and the people around you. When filming or taking a photo, a notification LED illuminates or pulses. The LED even automatically adjusts its brightness in different conditions to ensure it’s always visible. A multi-sensor approach means VIVE Eagle will not film if the notification LED is obscured, damaged or compromised.
When using 3rd party LLMs, like OpenAI and Google Gemini, VIVE Eagle de-identifies your requests. This makes it harder for LLMs to build an accurate tracking profile of you and your data.
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And privacy extends further. Photos and videos are encrypted and stored locally on VIVE Eagle, and the user decides if they want to manually import them to the VIVE Connect app or their cloud connected photo service.
Intuitive and flexible AI features
With a massive 4GB of RAM, VIVE Eagle can handle advanced features, and has plenty of scope for more to come in the future.
VIVE AI is packed full of productivity tools. Live translation of 96+ languages means you can use your VIVE Eagle to have real-time conversations with people speaking other languages. You can stay completely present and engaged in meetings, and simply receive detailed meeting notes from VIVE Eagle’s audio-recording capability.
You can also pair VIVE Eagle with Google Gemini to use native features on your Android smartphone, or Siri for iOS devices.
Availability and pricing
VIVE Eagle is privacy-centric yet open and intuitive. It’s powerful and flexible, putting people in charge of their own data again, and helping them to be fully present instead of experiencing life through another device.
VIVE Eagle is available to order at the company’s website and selected channels, starting at just $499. VIVE Eagle shipments will start immediately in North America, and from 21st September in the UK and Europe.
VIVE AI Plus is included at no additional charge for two years with eligible VIVE Eagle purchases.
