A new actor has just landed on the smart glasses market: HTC. This new strategy is not so surprising, the Taiwanese manufacturer being already known for its HTC Vive virtual reality headsets. These glasses are part of the same range, and are called Vive Eagle.
After the virtual reality headsets, the rivalry between HTC and Meta is now extending to the smart glasses market. HTC has just announced the Vive Eagle, his response to Ray-Ban Meta. These glasses carry a 12 -megapixel camera, for videos in 1,512 x 2,016 pixels at 30 IPS, and photos in 3,024 x 4,032 pixels. These smart glasses have theassistant vocalassistant vocal Long live, which allows them to be ordered by voice. They are compatible with the best known chatbots, especially ChatGPTChatGPT of Openai and GoogleGoogle Gemini, and can translate the text visible by the camera directly.
The branches contain speakers to listen to music, hear the responses of theIAIAor making calls, and HTC announces a range of 4.5 hours in audio reading or 36 hours in standby thanks to a 235 mAh battery. It only takes 10 minutes of load to find 50 % autonomy. They are powered by a Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 processor, the same chip as the Ray-Ban Meta, accompanied by 4 GB of RAMRAM and 32 GB of storage.
Discover the new smart glasses Vive Eagle. © HTC
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Unlike Meta, HTC did not develop the Vive Eagle in partnership with a brand of glasses. It is therefore a model specific to the manufacturer, but still with a resemblance to the Ray-Ban Meta. A notable difference is the presence of plateletsplatelets nasal, allowing them to be adjusted. Glasses weigh less than 49 grams and incorporate glassesglasses Solar Zeiss. For the time being, they therefore do not allow a correction of the view.
Long Eagle are currently available for pre -order, exclusively in Taiwan for $ 15,600 Taiwanese dollars (444 euros). For comparison, the Ray-Ban Meta starts at 339 euros, while the Oakley Meta cost 550 euros, but the latter are much more efficient. HTC has not yet indicated a date or price for a global launch.
