HTC Unveils Vive Eagle Smart Glasses With Voice-Activated AI To Rival Meta Ray-Bans

The competition in the smart eyewear market just got a little more interesting. HTC has decided to join the fray with the Vive Eagle AI glasses, a wearable with Meta’s popular Ray-Ban smart glasses square in its (eagle-eyed) sights.

Even though there's no prescriptive lens option just yet, the Vive Eagle is marketed as sunglasses that are available in Berry, Coffee, Grey, and Black colorways. HTC senior vice president Charles Huang emphasized that the glasses are "more than just a pair of glasses—it's a way to live life with greater freedom."

Within the 49-gram body, the Vive Eagle houses a decent array of tech, including the older Qualcomm Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 chipset (with 4GB of RAM and 32GB ROM), a 12-megapixel ultra-wide camera, and open-ear speakers.

The brains behind the show lies in HTC's proprietary Vive AI assistant. This voice-activated feature is powered by ...