Life BEAM Vi Hearable
Vi is a voice activated AI personal trainer that coaches and motivates you through bio-sensing headphones engineered for optimum sound by Harman Kardon.
Vi tracks and measures multiple elements of your workout to provide accurate real-time feedback and coaching to help you to achieve real results (i.e. weight loss, running/cycling improvements, and more). Vi also comes with the option to itegrate companion mobile apps such Apple Health, Google Fit, Spotify, and Strava.
Vi currently includes support for indoor/outdoor Walking, Jogging, Running, Sprinting, HIIT Runs and Cycling. Our supported activities will continue expanding every few months.
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Hearable category:
Fitness Tracking
Health Monitoring
Music Player
Reviews
The Vi is superlight and flexible, sitting comfortably around your neck with the right of the Vi hosting the controls. The ear buds have magnets in them to stay together when your not wearing them.
They need to be fitted properly and snuggly especially the left as this is the ear bud that has the heart monitor in. To get started the lovely lady from the app will need to ask you some personal questions about yourself to calculate your training needs. After a few sessions out running you suddenly heard a voice through the ear buds encouraging me to push harder and then you'll find she will regularly update you with helpful tips and updates on your heart rate level. I have to say it gets even more impressive, as Vi takes into account what the weather is like outside and will suggest whens best for running. If you don't like how often you hear updates or input from Vi you can adjust this via the app. The app can also be connected to Google fit or Apple health fit or music stored on your phone.
Sound quality is pretty good there doesn't seem to be any noise cancellation however I have to say I feel the ear buds seal the ears well and also Vi works as a great distraction. It is worth noting it is not just a small ear piece, there are wires and your going to need to carry your phone with you while you run. The whole idea of Vi is fantastic and I am looking forward to seeing what the future holds for other products made by Lifebeam.