Vi is a fitness coach with real personality, offering up helpful tips and guidance that will help you improve your workouts. When she’s working well, it’s an impressive hearable with some top-notch heart rate tech, but the voice detection is too uneven. You’re also limited to outdoor running for the time being. In sum, Vi has a hell of a lot of potential, but LifeBEAM needs to keep improving it to take it from being a great pair of running headphones to a truly convincing personal trainer.

If you hadn’t already heard, the future is voice, and LifeBEAM’s Vi headphones are another step in the right direction. If the likes of LifeBEAM, Doppler and Bragi are to be believed, in the not-too-distant future we’ll all be walking around with something smart plugged into our ear holes – and honestly, I can’t wait.

Hearables are one of the least intrusive forms of wearable tech, and as both voice assistants and fitness tech improve, they’ll form a closer camaraderie in our ears.
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