HTC’s VIVE Eagle AI glasses are now on sale in the US, UK, and Europe, roughly a year after the frames first appeared in Taiwan. The company confirmed Western pricing at IFA 2026 in Berlin: $499, £429, or €469, with North American orders shipping immediately and UK and European units following from September 21.

The launch lands weeks before Meta Connect and gives HTC a direct answer to the Ray-Ban Meta lineup. Its headline trick is dual-model AI. Wearers toggle between Google Gemini and OpenAI GPT inside the Vive Connect app instead of being locked into a single assistant, a pitch aimed squarely at shoppers who do not want to pick an AI camp when they buy glasses.

Hardware follows the current smart-glasses template. Power comes from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1, paired with 4GB RAM, 32GB storage and an ultra-wide 12MP camera that records 3K video and HDR stills, all in a 49g frame. Calls and voice commands run through open-ear directional speakers backed by a four-microphone array. On the privacy front, the camera disables automatically when the glasses come off, and a hardwired external LED lights up during any capture.

HTC is also pushing software extras. A feature dubbed Total Memory Recall keeps local context markers to help wearers remember where they parked or left items, and the glasses offer live translation across more than 90 languages plus direct streaming to Twitch and YouTube. Magnetic fast charging tops up from empty to 50% in about 10 minutes, and buyers can fit prescription lenses from -8D to +4D.

Source: Wareable