![]() But people can pay more for interactive private training sessions. Instructors can’t see the participants in group classes, and the device comes with a lens cap to doubly ensure this. Some participants even opt to share their heart rate, posture, and other biometrics. Everyone in the class can see the names and locations of the other people in the class, displayed as bubbles that pop up on the screen when they join. The experience feels eerily social-far more so than watching Richard Simmons on YouTube or simply staring into the void of an empty mirror alone in your apartment. You can’t ride a Mirror, but it does take up less floor space than a stationary bike, or anything that takes up floor space, does. ![]() Overall, using a Mirror is much like using the popular Peloton exercise bike-though it apparently makes a better present. Read: Peloton doesn’t understand the people who love it most ![]() In fact, she was receiving a Mirror as a gift. On Christmas morning 2018, Alicia Keys posted a video on Instagram in which she appeared to be having a seizure, or some sort of ecstatic religious revelation. The company told me that these have not been paid endorsements. Mirror has appeared in the social-media feeds of Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Kate Hudson, Allison Williams, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lady Gaga, and Olivia Wilde. Within months of Mirror hitting the market in September 2018, celebrities were swooning. You get most any exercise class that could be done at a gym-boxing, yoga, barre, dance, cardio, interval strength training-on demand, broadcast directly into the mirror that hangs inconspicuously on your wall at home. Before I know it, I’m aware of my heartbeat and trying not to look too challenged in front of a nearby sales associate.Ī Mirror costs $1,495, plus a subscription of $39 a month, which gives users access to multiple daily live-onscreen group fitness classes as well as a back catalog of thousands. I follow along for a few moves to see what it’s like. The point is to mirror her movements while keeping an eye on my form. The woman is a real fitness instructor leading a cardio class. ![]() This is supposed to happen people pay for this to happen. She immediately starts telling me to do jumping jacks. It’s joined by an enthusiastic woman in yellow leggings and a yellow sports bra, superimposed on the mirror like a Snapchat filter. Mirror looks just like any other mirror, until it powers on. I’m standing in the center of a store on Fifth Avenue, in Manhattan, looking into a full-length mirror. ![]()
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