Sunday, February 16, 2020

Want to make exercise really fun? Get an Oculus Quest!

Now to start I'm a lurker here if anything. I've basically completed my weight loss quite some time ago and I'm down to 240 from 310, and I've put on at least 20 lbs of muscle and am now focusing on bodybuilding, and endurance etc... for whatever reason the exercise switch got flipped back in late 2017 and I haven't looked back... HOWEVER I do HATE jogging/HIIT work, but I do it because I need it.... but what I've found with this new Oculus Quest (Completely wiresless and doesn't need a PC) is that the quest can give you an awesome workout while having a blast at the same time. One game in particular is PistolWhip that I really like. I call it the John Wick Simulator. You turn off aim assist and use real gun handling while ignoring the games beat mechanic (Think beatsaber... you can sync your shots to the base etc for more points but I don't care about that). After about 20 minutes of that my HR is up in the 140s. I keep it up and it goes to the 150s and I'm panting , sweating, and exhausted after an hour and have to stop playing. There are other games like Box VR, and some other sports related titles. I've started wearing ankle/wrist/Vest weights to make it even more of a workout. Doing wonders for my ACLs that need some building. I think VR just may be the answer to the obesity problem as this new freedom with the newer generations of hardware make VR more and more mainstream. I played the quest more in one night that I did with both of my first and second gen HMDS put together, it's that good. You take a hit in the graphics, but the freedom really makes up for. Problem right now is they are sold out (They were not prepared for the demand) and the virus slowed production to a stop, but they should be coming back before too long.

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