Peloton debuts Guide, a TV-connected camera: Everything you need to know

(Pocket-lint) - Peloton has introduced its latest product: Peloton Guide. The TV-connected camera marks Peloton's boldest determination into spot training.

What is Peloton Guide?

Guide is simply a TV-connected camera that tin show workouts and way your movements successful existent clip to guarantee you’re exercising properly. It besides features a built-in microphone and comes bundled with Peloton's recently updated Peloton Heart Rate Band (normally $89) and a remote. 

How overmuch is Peloton Guide?

Peloton Guide is Peloton's cheapest merchandise yet. In the US, it's acceptable to outgo $495.

What tin you bash with Peloton Guide?

While Peloton has agelong already offered spot grooming classes, the Peloton Guide is designed to supply a fuller acquisition by utilizing what Peloton refers to arsenic "Self Mode". This leverages the Guide’s built-in camera to way your movements and amusement your workout connected the surface alongside instructors who helps to spot if you’re doing the workout correctly. The Guide besides features a microphone, truthful you tin play, pause, rewind, oregon accelerated guardant a people by voice.

You’ll person to acquisition and usage your ain workout equipment, specified arsenic weights and absorption bands, to usage with the Guide camera.

Initially, the Guide is lone offering spot training-focused classes - either with bodyweight lone oregon with added weights. Peloton said it plans to adhd enactment for much types of exercises implicit time. It's unclear whether the Guide volition connection unrecorded classes for spot workouts similar it does for its Tread and Bike products.

Guide is intelligibly competing with products similar the Tempo Move, which costs $495 and includes weights but notably uses your iPhone for a camera.

Does Peloton Guide necessitate a membership?

Peloton said Guide owners volition request to subscribe to a $12.99-per-month rank (the aforesaid terms arsenic Peloton's app-only subscription) to usage the service. However, if you already ain a Tread oregon Bike and subscribe to the $39-per-month All-Access Membership, you won’t request to wage much to usage a Guide. 

When volition Peloton Guide beryllium available?

Peloton Guide volition motorboat archetypal successful the US and Canada successful "early 2022". It volition besides travel to the UK, Australia, and Germany sometime successful 2022.

Is Peloton Guide harmless successful presumption of privacy?

Since the Peloton usher comes packed with a microphone and a camera, you're astir apt funny astir privacy. Well, Peloton thought of that and said there's an integrated camera screen for erstwhile you’re not utilizing it arsenic good arsenic a carnal power to disable the microphone.

Want to cognize more?

Check retired Peloton's webpage for the Guide. Pocket-lint besides has the pursuing in-depth usher connected Peloton, the company, and each the products it offers:

• Peloton: Everything you request to know

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Originally published connected 9 November 2021.