HTC’s first AI-powered smart glasses, the VIVE Eagle, are set to arrive in the US and Europe in Q3 2026, marking the company’s latest attempt to reinvent itself beyond smartphones and VR headsets.

Chairwoman Cher Wang told shareholders that AI is one of HTC’s most important trends. The VIVE Eagle will support multiple AI platforms including Google Gemini and OpenAI instead of locking users into a single assistant. That open-platform approach gives HTC a different pitch than Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses or the AI glasses from Xiaomi and Alibaba.

HTC is also leaning on privacy as a selling point, saying user data from the glasses is not used to train its AI models. The company reported consolidated revenue of NT$292M (about $10M) for June 2026, down 8.5% year over year, but the pace of decline is slowing compared to the steep drops of the past decade.

The VIVE Eagle launch is part of a broader shift at HTC. The company sold part of its XR engineering team to Google in 2025 and is now positioning itself around AI glasses, its VIVERSE platform — which hit 1.7 million monthly active users in May — and enterprise XR services.

Source: Mixed News