No need to leave home. Veterans living in rural
America can experience the sights and sounds of the Washington D.C.
war memorials with VR applications powered by T-Mobile 5G.
It’s Military Appreciation Month, and we honor those who have
served our country. T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) today announced it is
teaming up with Healium to bring a virtual Honor Flight experience
to veterans living in small towns across the country, transporting
them with the power of Virtual Reality (VR) and 5G to visit the
Washington D.C. war memorials from the comfort of their own
homes.
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No need to leave home. Veterans living in
rural America can experience the sights and sounds of the
Washington D.C. war memorials with VR applications powered by
T-Mobile 5G. (Photo: Business Wire)
T-Mobile 5G and Healium power virtual Honor
Flight experience for veterans
There’s no need to travel. T-Mobile and Healium are equipping
Honor Flight Network volunteers with VR headsets and Inseego 5G
MiFi M2000 hotspots, so our country’s veterans can virtually
experience the sights and sounds of the memorials dedicated to
them. With T-Mobile Extended Range 5G covering 1.6 million square
miles, this toolkit enables volunteers to travel to remote
locations, meet with veterans in their homes and run a
high-bandwidth VR experience using the T-Mobile 5G network.
From the comfort of their living rooms, veterans are virtually
transported to Washington D.C. — just as if they were there in
person — where they can tour the war memorials that commemorate
their service and honor their fallen comrades. In the virtual
tours, veterans can hear the sound of the Rainbow Pool, watch the
Changing of the Guard at Arlington National Cemetery, and visit the
World War II Memorial, Korean War Veterans Memorial, Vietnam
Veterans Memorial and the Women in Military Service For America
Memorial. There’s even a virtual tour of the USS Nimitz in the
Pacific Ocean.
“We are losing our World War II Veterans at a rate of hundreds a
day, and sadly many may not live long enough to be able to see
their memorials in person,” said Sarah Hill, CEO, Healium. “This is
a such a powerful application that can help us reach veterans,
including those living in small towns and remote locations. While
nothing is as good as a real, in-person Honor Flight trip, this is
a beautiful way to take veterans there if they’re not able to
travel.”
Healium is as an early leader in Mixed Reality solutions
designed to improve mental fitness. Since 2015, it has supported
the volunteer efforts of Central Missouri Honor Flight, a
non-profit organization dedicated to honoring those who served and
sacrificed for our country. The Honor Flight Network is a national
network of independent Hubs, each dedicated to transporting U.S.
military veterans to see the Washington, D.C. war memorials at no
cost to the veterans.
“5G is the enabler for VR applications that can transport us to
new places, giving us immersive experiences that better connect us
to our world,” said John Saw, EVP of Advanced & Emerging
Technologies at T-Mobile. “We are delighted to team up with Healium
and Honor Flight Network to help give back to those who have served
our country. With 5GForAll we can bring transformative services
such as this to everyone, including those living in rural
America.”
Building #5GForAll
T-Mobile is America’s 5G leader with the largest, fastest and
most reliable 5G network. T-Mobile’s Extended Range 5G covers 295
million people across 1.6 million square miles. That’s 4x more
geographic coverage than Verizon and 2x more than AT&T. And
with Sprint now part of T-Mobile, the Un-carrier is widening its
lead, lighting up Ultra Capacity 5G across the country, bringing
fast 5G speeds to more places than anyone else. Ultra Capacity 5G
can deliver speeds around 300 Mbps with peaks of 1 Gbps, and now
covers 140 million people.
Incredible and innovative 5G products and services are quickly
being built, and they require a 5G network with capacity and broad
reach, one that’s being built to support virtually all types of use
cases and provide unprecedented reach. It’s called #5GForAll and
only T-Mobile can build it. With its supercharged 5G network as the
foundation, T-Mobile is fueling 5G innovation and building the 5G
ecosystem with a number of initiatives. The Un-carrier collaborates
with universities and standards bodies to support 5G research and
development. In addition to running the award-winning T-Mobile
Accelerator, it operates the T-Mobile Ventures investment fund and
is a co-founder of the 5G Open Innovation Lab.
From employee benefits and military discounts, to its pledge to
hire 10,000 veterans and military spouses by 2023, T-Mobile is
honored to serve those who serve our country. Find out more on our
website. And, follow T-Mobile’s Official Twitter Newsroom
@TMobileNews to stay up to date with the latest company news.
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About T-Mobile
T-Mobile U.S. Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS) is America’s supercharged
Un-carrier, delivering an advanced 4G LTE and transformative
nationwide 5G network that will offer reliable connectivity for
all. T-Mobile’s customers benefit from its unmatched combination of
value and quality, unwavering obsession with offering them the best
possible service experience and undisputable drive for disruption
that creates competition and innovation in wireless and beyond.
Based in Bellevue, Wash., T-Mobile provides services through its
subsidiaries and operates its flagship brands, T-Mobile, Metro by
T-Mobile and Sprint. For more information please visit:
http://www.t-mobile.com.
About Healium
Healium is a mental fitness solution to train up focused calm
and human performance using neurofeedback, virtual, and augmented
reality. Unlike traditional eyes-closed meditation, Healium is
visual and allows the user to control virtual worlds with their
brainwaves or heart rate via any wearable like a smartwatch or EEG
headband. These virtual vacations are used worldwide with athletes,
worker athletes, and in areas of stress.
https://www.tryhealium.com/
About Honor Flight Network
The Honor Flight Network was formed in 2005 with a mission of
honoring our nation’s veterans by bringing them to Washington, DC
to visit the memorials and monuments dedicated to their service and
sacrifice. The Honor Flight Network is currently comprised of over
125 hubs throughout the country dedicated to carrying out the Honor
Flight mission. In addition to World War II veterans, the
organization transports those who served in the Korean War, Vietnam
War, intermediary operations, and in special cases of terminal
illness or injury, veterans from more recent service eras. Since
2005, the Honor Flight Network has taken more than 240,000 veterans
to Washington D.C. For more information, visit honorflight.org.
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