Garmin’s new cycling headlight includes a 4K incident camera

Garmin includes the hardware for mountin the Varia Vue successful beforehand of a bicycle’s handlebars. | Image: Garmin

Garmin has announced a new summation to its Varia line of information and visibility accessories for cyclists. The Varia Vue is the archetypal to brace a agleam headlight with a front-facing 4K camera designed to automatically grounds incidents and prevention the footage locally oregon nonstop it to the unreality done a smartphone. It’s available present done the company’s online store for $549.99 and is besides disposable done Amazon.

The Varia Vue tin seizure 4K video for up to six hours connected a afloat charge, but artillery beingness is reduced to arsenic small arsenic 1.25 hours with the headlight acceptable to its brightest setting. Dropping the camera’s solution to 1080P astatine 30fps tin boost signaling times to up to 9 hours, oregon up to 1.5 hours with the headlight astatine afloat brightness.

Electronic representation stabilization helps to trim shakiness successful footage captured connected unsmooth terrain, portion continuous signaling allows the events starring up to an incidental (detected by the Vue’s accelerometer) to beryllium stored alongside the aftermath. With the camera paired to devices similar Garmin’s smartwatches, cycling computers, oregon adjacent its mobile app, video is recorded with GPS velocity and determination info.

To further maximize artillery life, the Vue tin beryllium connected to Garmin’s camera-equipped radar taillight. Not lone does that unlock an further signaling mode wherever the Vue lone starts to seizure footage erstwhile a conveyance approaches from behind, it besides allows incidents to beryllium captured from 2 antithetic angles.

Footage is recorded locally to an SD card, but erstwhile connected to Wi-Fi, videos tin beryllium automatically uploaded to the online Garmin Vault for added security. However, that diagnostic requires either a $9.99 monthly subscription oregon a $99.99 yearly one.

Garmin says the Vue’s headlight has a maximum brightness of 600 lumens, but that’s lone disposable successful a flashing mode designed for daytime use. At afloat brightness, the Vue outputs 550 lumens, and tin beryllium dimmed to arsenic debased arsenic 140 lumens. The headlight is besides designed with a cutoff beam that angles the illumination down onto the roadworthy truthful it doesn’t radiance successful the eyes of oncoming drivers.

One further diagnostic that volition astir surely entreaty to existing Garmin fans is that the company, which has long stuck with Micro USB ports connected its products, has opted for a USB-C larboard connected the Vue for charging.